Recycling – it’s the magic word when the ill-informed think “environmental friendliness”. “Recyclable” – the number one green term that doesn’t mean a thing. Of course, as long as you put enough energy into a process, you can recycle virtually anything. The issue, the uncomfortable drawback that sits behind the pleasant sheen, the little itch you feel when you start thinking things through, is the...
Back in the year 1987, the International Organization for Standardization introduced a number of norms known as the ISO 9000 series. For the first time, there were internationally recognized quality management standards. The approach to these standards was voluntary. If you wanted the ISO 9000 certificate, you could obtain it by a third party. These quality management norms were later followed by various environmental standards that originated in the 1992 Rio conference, known as ISO 14000. As well as ISO 9000, ISO 14000 require an external verification by a third party, which is neither the o...
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ByWho’s Happier ..., April 22, 2013atmospheric carbon measurement
comparative life cycle assessment
Corporate Social Responsibility
customer-driven sustainability
energy efficiency in production
Environmental Goods and Services Sector
environmental management system
environmental performance indicator
environmental product declaration
environmental profit and loss statement
Environmental Sustainability Index
Environmentally Harmful Subsidy
Environmentally Weighed Material Consumption
European Green Cars Initiative
European Sustainable Development Strategy
internalization of externalities
mechanical-biological treatment
OECD Environment Policy Committee
Online Resource Efficiency Platform OREP
Production-based CO2 Productivity
remuneration of environmental performance
renewable energy in manufacturing