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GLOSSARY ITEM | 22 Mar 2024
A product produced together with another product. US EPA, 2006, Lifecycle Assessment Principles and Practices Glossary, accessed 05 December 2023. Source category: Agency...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 19 Mar 2024
An incidental product deriving from a manufacturing process or chemical reaction, and not the primary product or service being produced. A by-product can be useful and marketable, or it can...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 06 Mar 2024
The biodegradable fraction of products, waste and residues from biological origin from agriculture, including vegetal and animal substances, from forestry and related industries, fisheries and aquaculture, as well as the biodegradable fraction...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 06 Mar 2024
Liquid fuel for energy purposes other than for transport, including electricity and heating and cooling, produced from biomass EU, 2018, Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 05 Mar 2024
Capability of being degraded by biological activity. Vert, M., Y. Doi, et al. (IUPAC Polymer Division) 2012, 'Terminology for biorelated polymers and applications (IUPAC...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 04 Mar 2024
Algae, singular alga, members of a group of predominantly aquatic photosynthetic organisms of the kingdom Protista. Algae have many types of life cycles, and they range in size...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 28 Aug 2023
A process by which microbial organisms transform or alter (through metabolic or enzymatic action) the structure of chemicals introduced into the environment. US EPA, 2015, Terminology Services. U.S...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 27 Aug 2023
Microalgae are microscopic eukaryotic organisms composed of single differentiated cells able to obtain energy using chromophores. Algae and algae products - Terms and...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 04 Jan 2021
Any substance, material or object which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard. NOTES EU Waste Framework Directive (EU, 2008) also defines: -...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 04 Jan 2021
Smallest element considered in the life cycle inventory analysis for which input and output data are quantified. ISO, 2006a, EN ISO 14040:2006: Environmental management...