blacklisted
substances not allowed in products
cleaner production strategy
to reduce environmental impacts through changes in process
design
Design for Disassembly
designing a product to reduce the impacts from the waste part
of its life
Design for the Environment (DfE)
also called eco-design, designing a product to minimize the
environmental impacts from its entire life-cycle and/or make it easier to
recycle
eco-design
the same as Design for the Environment
eco-label
labels that let the customer know that the product is a good
environmental choice, as evaluated according to one or several given criteria
Eco-Management and Audit Scheme, EMAS
environmental management standard developed by the EU
Commission, now an EU regulation; EMAS differs from ISO 14001 in that public
disclosure in the form of environmental reporting is compulsary
Environmental Impact Assessment, EIA
tool used in infrastructure planning and design to assess the
environmental impacts of a proposal, for instance the location of an airport, to
identify options to reduce such impacts
environmental management certification
certification by specific authorizing agencies that a company
or organization has an EMS which meets the EMAS regulation or the ISO 14001
management standard
environmental management system, EMS
the way in which an organization, often a company, organizes
its environmental work and the relations between management, the day-to-day
operations and its environmental problems; the EMS requires that work is
systematic, subject to improvement, clearly documented, specific tasks and
responsibilities are placed on particular occupations and positions in the
company – not on particular people – and that management periodically
reviews its environmental work to identify weaknesses, strengths, and opportunities for improvement
environmental monitoring
measurement of an environmental parameter either as a
geographical distribution or, especially for point sources, as a time series to
judge environmental quality
green label
the same as eco-label
greylisted
substances that the designer can use, but only if there is no
other alternative
industrial ecology
(as used in this chapter) the same as industrial symbiosis
industrial symbiosis
when several industrial firms located in close proximity to
one another co-operate in such a way that one company's waste (excess heat or
steam, chemical waste, inert solids, etc.) serves as input into another company's
production process; also called industrial ecology
ISO 14001 standard
environmental management standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization, ISO
ISO 14042
ISO standard for LCA in which the final aggregation of impact
data into one index is not required, and thus the LCA is complete after the
classification and characterization steps
life-cycle assessment, LCA
assessment in which the entire environmental impact of a
product, from the extraction of raw materials to its wasting, is estimated; to
make an LCA is often a complex and time-consuming work
life-cycle inventory, LCI
the initial stages of an LCA including the determination of
the functional unit, the system boundies, in which the life-cycle is broken down
in steps and sub-processes, and data on the resource use of each of these are
collected
management tool
procedure to decide which solution is the best for addressing
a specified environmental problem
no development option
option added to an Environmental Impact Assessment in
addition to the proposed development projects or constructions, in case no
alternative would be environmentally acceptable
performance indicator
a relationship describing environmental performance, for
instance emissions per unit of production
pollution prevention
procedures to reduce pollution by changing production
technology oor management of a process
waste audit
more correctly called "waste minimization opportunity
assessment" is a process in which the wastes from a production process are
surveyed, often as part of the total energy and material flows, and measures for
reducing them are proposed