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Environmental Management Manual
The documentation describing the procedures for implementing an organization's environmental management program.
Environmental Management Program
A description of the means of achieving environmental objectives and targets.
Environmental Management Review
A formal evaluation by management of the status and adequacy of systems and procedures in relation to environmental issues, policy and regulations as well as new objectives resulting from changing circumstances.
Environmental Management System
The part of an overall management system which includes structure, planning activities, responsibilities, practices, procurements, processes and resources for developing, implementing, achieving, reviewing and maintaining an environmental policy.
Environmental Management System Audit
A systematic and documented verification process to objectively obtain and evaluate evidence to determine whether an organization's environmental management system conforms to the environmental management system audit criteria set by the organization, and communication of the results of this process to management.
Environmental Objectives
The overall environmental goal, arising from an environmental policy, that an organization sets itself to achieve, and which is quantified where practical.
Environmental Performance
Measurable results (see environmental performance indicators/index) of an environmental management system, related to the control of its environmental aspects. Assessment of environmental performance is based on environmental policy, environmental objectives and environmental targets.
Environmental Performance Index
A parameter describing environmental impact with a single figure. An index is usually calculated by weighting the actual impact level against a target level. Also see valuation.
Environmental Performance Indicators
Different parameters describing the potential impact of activities, products or services on the environment. These parameters are the result of characterizing classified environmental interventions/environmental aspects.
Environmental Policy
A statement by an organization of its intentions and principles in relation to its overall environmental performance. Environmental policy provides a framework for action and for the setting of its environmental objectives and target.
Environmental Problem
An environmental problem is a description of a known process within the environment or a state of the environment which has adverse effects on the sustainability of the environment including society. They include resource consumption and environmental impacts. See also environmental effects, environmental aspects.
Environmental Regulation Register
A list of regulations regarding environmental aspects of an organization. Also see environmental effects register and environmental inventory.
Environmental Release
See environmental interventions.
Environmental Target
A detailed performance requirement, quantified where practical, applicable to the organization or parts or combination thereof, that arises from environmental objectives and that must be set and met in order to achieve those environmental objectives.
Environmental Strategy
A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific environmental objective.
Interested Party
Individuals or groups concerned with or affected by the environmental performance of an organization. Interested groups include those exercising statutory environmental control over an organization, local residents, an organization's investors, insurers, employees, customers and consumers, environmental interest groups and the general public.
Open-loop Recycling
A recycling system in which a particular mass of material (possible after upgrading) is remanufactured into the same product (e.g. glass bottles into glass bottles). See also open-loop recycling.
Organization
A company, corporation, firm, enterprise or institution, or part or combination thereof, whether incorporated or not, public or private, that has its own functions and administration. For organizations with more than one operating unit, a single operating unit may be defined as an organization.
Pollution
Residual discharges of emissions to the air or water following application of emission control devices (EPA 1993b). See also environmental release and environmental intervention.
Primary Product
The product or service which is the strategic focus of an organization. See also by-product and co-product.
Prevention of Pollution
The use of processes, practices, methods or products that avoid, reduce or control pollution. These may include reycling, treatment, process changes, control mechanisms, efficient use of resources and material substitution.
Recycling
The process of re-using material for the production of new goods or services on the same quality level. If the quality of the goods and services produced with recycled material is lower, then the process is known as downcycling. See also close-loop recycling and open-loop recycling.
Registration
The procedure by which an organization indicates relevant characteristics of a product, process or service, or particulars of an organization or person, and then includes or registers the product, process, or service in an appropriate publicly available list. See also certification.
Resources
Materials found in the environment that can be extracted from the environment in an economic process. There are abiotic resources (non-renewable) and biotic resources (renewable).
Reuse
The additional use of a component, part, or product after it has been removed from a clearly defined service cycle. Reuse does not include reformation. However, cleaning, repair, or refurbishing may be done between uses.
Solid Waste
Solid products or materials disposed of in landfills, incinerated or composted. See also waste.
System
A collection of operations that perform a desired function.
Valuation
The process of weighting characterized environmental interventions against each other in a quantitative and/or qualitative way. This process results in an environmental performance index.
Verification Activities
All inspection, test and monitoring work related to environmental management.
Waste
An output with no marketable value that is discharged to the environment. Normally the term "waste" refers to solid or liquid materials.
Waterborne Waste
Discharge to water of pollutants.