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Duty of Care applies to anyone who imports, produces, carries, keeps, treats or disposes of waste who must ensure that waste is transferred only to an authorised person with a written description of the the waste Environmental Impact is the change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, which wholly or partly result from the organisation's activities. (ISO 14001: 1996 definition 3.4) Environmental Management
is the organised effort of all functions of an organisation with the main objective of enabling it to comply with existing environmental legislation and to continually reduce its impacts upon the environment.
Environmental Objective is the overall goal, arising from the environmental policy, that an organisation sets itself to achieve, and which is quantifiable where practicable. (ISO 14001: 1996 definition 3.7) Environmental Target is the detailed performance requirement, quantified where practicable, applicable to the organisation or parts thereof, that arises from the environmental objectives. and that needs to be set and met in order to achieve those objectives. (ISO 14001: 1996 definition 3.10) Environmental Performance is the relationship between the organisation and the environment. It includes: the environmental effects of resources consumed, the environmental impacts of the organisational process, the environmental implications of its products and services, the recovery and processing of products and meeting the environmental requirements of law (MCI NVQ 4). Global Warming or Climate Change refers to the warming up of the earth over the past 30 years, which most scientists consider is due to industrial emmissions, resulting in unpredictable changes in the climate worldwide. Greenhouse Gases (GHG) are those gases contributing to the greenhouse effect where the sunlight is trapped within the atmosphere, and are carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), nitrous oxides, and methane. |
Ozone layer is a thin layer of stratosphere - between about 15 kilometres out and 50 kilometres out from the earth. The ozone layer was formed by oxygen from plants reacting with ultraviolet light of the sun. Concentration of ozone is almost certainly being depleted by pollution with CFCs. Prevention of Pollution is the use of processes, practices, materials or products that avoid, reduce or control pollution, which may include recycling, treatment, process changes, control mechanisms, efficient use of resources and material substitution. (ISO 14001: 1996 definition 3.13) Product Stewardship denotes the responsible management of the health, safety and environmental aspects of the basic configuration of a business in terms of a product throughout its life-cycle and / or the investment and operations to produce a process or provide a service. Recycling is a form of recovery by reprocessing of waste materials to produce a usable raw material or product. Recycling includes organic recycling, e.g. composting under controlled conditions, but not energy recovery. Waste (controlled) is any substance or object that is discarded by the business that was responsible for producing it. Every business produces waste covered by environmental legislation - even if the producer does not consider it to be toxic, harmful or large in quantity. Special Waste is solid or liquid that must be disposed of in accordance with the Special
Waste Regulations. This includes substances on the EU Hazardous Waste List and
has one of more of the following hazardous characteristics: Whole-life Approach towards a facility examines "the costs of acquiring it, the costs of operating it and the costs of maintaining it over its whole life through to its disposal…. These costs include internal resources and departmental overheads, where relevant; they also include risk allowances…” “Whole-life Costing…Procurement Guide: Principles". OGC (UK Office of Government Commerce is an office of HM Treasury). For larger glossary of business and environment
terms, visit www.epaw.co.uk
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