compared with competing products or services that serve the same purpose.”
Recycling: The activities by which products are recovered from the solid waste stream for use as raw materials in the manufacture of new products. This helps prevent the waste of potentially useful materials and reduces virgin raw material consumption.
Renewable: Renewable products are derived from resources that are regenerative, or can be continually reproduced. The time span for each raw material to “renew” itself can be annual, like a harvest, or as long as the human lifespan, such as the case with lumber.
Source reduction: Decreasing the amount of materials used during the manufacturing or distribution of products
Stewardship: Embracing responsibility for the long-term viability of the environment
Sustainability: Meeting or exceeding the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet or exceed their own needs. Thee are three key domains of sustainability:
- Social: Enhancing people’s quality of life and reducing risks to health and well-being
- Environmental: Increasing positive impacts and reducing negative impacts on our ecosystem
- Economic: Building economic strength and prosperity for an enterprise and its stakeholders
Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI): Launched in 1994, SFI Inc. is an independent, non-profit organization responsible for maintaining, overseeing and improving a sustainable forestry certification program that is internationally recognized and is the largest single forest standard in the world.
Sustainable Processes: Using resources to meet existing needs while ensuring adequate resources for later generations
VOCs: Volatile Organic Compounds, which have high enough vapor pressures to significantly vaporize and enter the atmosphere, where they become pollutants
Zero Waste: A production system aimed at eliminating the volume and toxicity of waste and materials by conserving or recovering all resources.
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