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- ECF
- Elemental Chlorine Free Pulp bleached without the use of chlorine gas.
- Eco System
- The plants, animals and microbes that live in a defined geographical area and the physical environment in which they live. An eco-system has the means of producing both energy and the materials for life on an ongoing basis.
- Effluent
- Wastewater that has been discharged either to a sewer or to a stream or other body of water.
- EMAS
- The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS), used by the European Union since 1995 and updated in 2001, regarded as the superior environmental standard. The scheme requires transparent public reporting, monitoring, auditing and employee involvement in its implementation. EMAS is designed to deliver continual improvements in a company's environmental performance.
- Environmental Management System
- Part of a general management system, consisting of organisation structures, planning functions, responsibilities, practices, procedures, processes and resources for developing, implementing, fulfilling, analysing and maintaining a company's environmental policy.
- EU Eco-label
- European Union scheme to promote 'green products, including paper.