Abstract
High schools in Ohio are much safer than they were just a few years ago, thanks to a program to clean up high school chemistry laboratories and other school property. The $2.9 million program, called the Ohio Hazardous Waste Removal Program (HWRP) and funded in 1997 by the state legislature, was designed to address hazardous materials—especially those stored in science stockrooms—on school property. The program dealt with chemicals used in instruction in all public and private K-12 schools in Ohio. It also provided safety training for teachers. The program, one of the first—if not the first—of its kind in the country, was more than a decade in the making. Discussions with chemistry teachers across Ohio indicated that nearly everyone had unwanted chemicals. To take advantage of Ohio's resources and also to lower the cost per school, the program needed to be statewide. Today, it is out of funds, with only a few schools left to ...
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