To the best of my knowledge, Home Depot stores do not have a Point Source, so air and water permits probably are not required. There is a strong possibility that they do need a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP). A SWPPP is required when a site has an area threshold that is exposed to storms and run-off. I’ll leave the size required for you to determine.
The goal of a SWPPP is to have any storm run-off be just water – no pollutants. As Home Depot has a sizable parking lot, there may be concerns over spilled oil and other spilled auto fluids. These items are considered pollutants.
Home Depot carries inventories of lawn and construction chemicals as well as pressure treated lumber (the green color in treated lumber are usually copper compounds). These items must be stored in such a way that rain and storm runoff do not carry any of these materials to the storm drain. A SWPPP would mandate that these materials be stored so that the above is accomplished. If these items were exposed to storm water, the Permittee would be required to conduct sampling of any storm run-off to ensure concentrations are below threshold limits.
Another concern: Some of their stores have been cited for selling products that contain VOC's that exceed Federal Requirements. This is well reported, and should be easy to research.
This should be enough to get you started.
Do your own research. That is the point of a project. Start by searching news articles or magazine articles to see if Home Depot made the news with any environmental issues.
We are not here to do your thinking or homework for you.
Honestly if you don't learn to research, you will end up graduating from college and being no smarter than a box of rocks
go to google and search
home depot environmental issues
Now how simple is that.
like the other people who have commented, we can't write your own essay. That's your job.
However, i think you'll find a lot of answers.Home Depot's not the greenest corporation.
they sell products to people that have no right to use them and do not go by the lable... pesticides , building materials, and many other things.
Im doing a school project on environmental problems associated with a corporation. I was assigned home depot. So what specific facts are there about how the home depot negatively effects the environmentt
thnxs
