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11-20 of 31 for the Category : Waste & Pollution and the Subcategory : Hazardous Waste

Environmental Auditing

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Environmental auditing is a process used mainly in commerce and industry to measure how well environmental policies, programmes and plans are being implemented in practice.

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Environmental Degradation

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Over the past 45 years, just over one tenth of the earth’s vegetated soils have become so degraded that their natural functions have been damaged to the point where restoration will be very costly, if not impossible.

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Environmental Due Diligence

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An environmental due diligence exercise or audit is carried out to identify the extent and nature of environmental risk involved when companies are bought and sold.

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Environmental Goods & Services

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Also known as Green Industries, the Environmental Goods and Services (EGS) sector comprises the set of companies which provide products and services to measure, prevent, reduce or reverse damage to the natural environment and the depletion or pol

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Environmental Management

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Environmental management took on real impetus in the aftermath of the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, with further impetus specific to industry and business provided with the publication of the first edition of ISO 14001 in 1996.

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Greenwash

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Greenwash is not a new concept. The term emerged from the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and it entered the Concise Oxford Dictionary in 1999.

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Hazardous Wastes

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It is an ethical and legal responsibility of industries and the government to inform communities of the hazardous substances to which they may be exposed. Unfortunately, South Africa currently has a shortage of properly contained, High Hazard waste d

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Incineration of Waste

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The incineration (high-temperature burning, using sophisticated high-tech equipment) of wastes, particularly non-recyclable municipal waste and a variety of industrial and hazardous waste, is practised in many countries, largely in Western Europe.

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Industrial Ecology

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'Industrial ecology’ refers to the exchange of materials between different industrial sectors where the ‘waste’ output of one industry becomes the ‘feedstock’ of another.

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Leachate

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Leachate is the liquid that is formed and drains out of a landfill site.

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