1.

Abiotic Resources
Resources which are considered abiotic and therefore not renewable. Zinc
ore and crude oil are examples of abiotic resources.

2. Ancillary Material
Material that is not used directly in the formation of a product or service.

3. Auditing
See environmental management system audit.

4. Biotic Resources
Resources which are considered biotic and therefore renewable. The
rainforests and tigers are examples of biotic resources.

5. By-Product
A useful and marketable product or service that is not the primary product or
service being produced. See also co-product.
6. Certification
The procedure by which third party gives written assurance that a product,
process, or service conforms to specific requirements. See also registration.

7. Characterization
Characterization aggregates classified environmental
interventions/aspects within an environmental impact category. This step
results in environmental performance indicators.

8. Characterization Factor
A factor that describes the relative harmfulness of an environmental
intervention within one environmental impact category. A factor is a result of
modeling environmental effects/problems.

9. Classification
Classification attributes are environmental interventions/aspects listed in
an environmental inventory/environmental effects register according
to environmental impact categories.

10. Close-loop Recycling

A recycling system in which a product made from one type of material is
recycled into a different type of product (e.g. used newspapers into toilet
paper). The product receiving recycled material itself may or may not be
recycled. See also open-loop recycling.
11. Co-Product
A marketable by-product from a process that can technically not be avoided.
This includes materials that may be traditionally defined as wastesuch as
industrial scrap that is subsequently used as a raw material in a different
manufacturing process.

12. Continuous Improvement

The process of enhancing an environmental management system to achieve
improvements in overall environmental performance in line with
an organization's environmental policy.

13. Biodegradable waste

Organic waste, typically coming from plant or animal sources (for example
food
scraps and paper), which other living organisms can break down.

14. Damage
A deterioration in the quality of the environment not directly attributable
to depletion or pollution.

15. Depletion
The result of the extraction of abiotic resources (non-renewable) from
the environment or the extraction of biotic resources (renewable) faster than
they can be renewed.

16. Eco-Efficiency
The relationship between economic output (product, service, activity)
and environmental impact added caused by production, consumption and
disposal.

17. Emission
One or more substances released to the water, air or soil in the
natural environment. See also environmental
release, pollution and environmental intervention.

18. Environment
Surroundings in which an organization operates, including air, water, land,
natural resources, flora, fauna, humans, and their interrelations. This
definition extends the view from a company focus to the global system.

19. Environmental Aspects

Elements of an organization's activities, products or services which can
interact with the environment (ISO 14004). A significant environmental aspect
is an environmental aspect which has or can have a significant environmental
impact. See also environmental interventions, environmental problem.
20. Environmental Effect
Any direct or indirect impingement of activities, products and services of
an organization upon the environment, whether adverse or beneficial. An
environmental effect is the consequence of an environmental intervention in
an environmental system. See also environmental impact,environmental
problem.

21. Environmental Effects Evaluation

A documented evaluation of the environmental significance of the effect of
an organization's activities, products and services (existing and planned)
upon the environment.

22. Environmental Effects Register

A list of significant environmental effects, known or suspected, of
an organization's activities, products and services upon the environment.
Also see environmental inventory.

23. Environmental Impact

Any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or
partially resulting from an organization's activities, products or services. An
environmental impact addresses an environmental problem. Also
see environmental effect.

24. Environmental Impact Added

The total of all environmental interventions of a product or production system
evaluated (weighted) according to the harmfulness of each intervention to
the environment.

25. Environmental Intervention

Exchange between the economy and
the environment including resource extraction, emissions to the air, water, or
soil, and aspects of land use. If resource extraction is excluded, the term used
in this case is environmental release. See also emission and pollution.

26. Environmental Inventory

An environmental inventory identifies and quantifies - where appropriate -
all environmental aspects of an organization's activities, products and
services. Also see environmental effects register.

27. Environmental Issue

A point or matter of discussion, debate, or dispute of
an organization's environmental aspects.
28. Environmental Management
Those aspects of an overall management function (including planning) that
determine and lead to implementation of an environmental policy. See
also environmental management system.

29. Environmental values: A set of qualities that define an environment as such,

including the characteristics of the living, inert and cultural components.

30. Turbidity of a RESIDUAL water: it is a physical characteristic that indicates

the presence in the water of suspended substances and/or colloidal material,
these materials disperse or absorb the light preventing its transmission.

31. Environmental Management System (EMS): Those aspects of the general

Systems of a company, including the organizations, practices and resources,
which lead to Cabo and support the environmental management function

32. Re-use or reuse: use of a material, by-product or residual product more than
once.

33. Biological resources: These are the components of biodiversity that support
a direct, indirect or potential use for humanity.

34. Environmental Management Program: Document which indicates the

measures that have been envisaged in order to minimise adverse impacts on
the environment and to increase the environmental benefits of a project

35. Environmental profile: Comprehensive and multidisciplinary Study of the

environmental conditions that characterize an area or region, at a certain time.

36. Territorial ordering: official, scientific, ecological planning of a region or

terrestrial zone, carried out to achieve an optimal distribution of the
commercial sectors, Industrial, urban, agricultural and natural, that tends to a
development Adequate and efficient of an inhabited region.

37. Standards and criteria for emission of pollutants: technical body where
are specified maximum values that should not be surpassed, referring to the
whole or part of the variables or indicators representative of the composition
 and volume of the Effluents in general, and each contaminant in particular,
are natural or energetic

38. Environmental impact: Any net change, positive or negative, that provokes
on the environment as indirect consequence, of human actions susceptible to
produce alterations that affect the health, the productive capacity of the
natural resources and The essential ecological processes. Law No. 123 EIA
C.B.A.

39. sanitation: it refers to a form, a modality of endowments and ambientation of

a land, houses, buildings or of any place that is desired to qualify or that it
becomes a place very concurred by a society.

40. An environmental problem: A is any alteration that causes imbalance in a

given environment, affecting it negatively.

41. Abiotic: That has no life. In the ecosystem, abiotic factors are those
components that have no life, such as mineral substances.

42. Adaptation: Capacity of an organism to accommodate its own environment

or a different environment.

43. Water: A fundamental liquid for life. Composed of two parts of hydrogen and
one of oxygen, which is found in the earth in solid, liquid and gaseous state.

44. Anthropic: Which has its origin or is a consequence of the activities of man.

45. Residual waters: Those coming from any human activity, which, according
to the source, can be: industrial, agricultural or domestic, among others. They
are also called effluents.

46. Drinking water: Water suitable for human consumption without risk to health.

47. Anaerobic: Organism that can develop in total absence of free oxygen.