the mission of the materials fabrication division (mfd) is to provide fabrication services and technology in support of all programs at lawrence livermore national laboratory (llnl). mfd involvement is called for when fabrication activity requires levels of expertise, technology, equipment, process development, hazardous processes, security, or scheduling that is typically not commercially available. customers are encouraged to utilize private industry for fabrication activity requiring routine processing or for production applications. our waste minimization (wm) program has been directed at source reduction and recycling in concert with the working definition of waste minimization used by epa. the principal focus of wm activities has been on hazardous wastes as defined by rcra, however, all pollutant emissions into air, water and land are being considered as part of the program. the incentives include: (1) economics, (2) regulatory conformance, (3) public image and (4) environmental concern. this report discusses the waste minimization program at llnl