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endocrine disruptors

02.07.2025

A substance that mimics, blocks or interferes with hormones and their production, metabolism and excretion causing malfunction of the endocrine sys...

Encouraging Environmental Excellence (E3)

A voluntary rating system for textile factories developed by The American Textile Manufacturers Institute.

Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA)

The federal statute (of 1986) that is the third part of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, also known as SARA Title III. Thi...

embodied energy

The total quantity of mass of materials required to produce, recycle or dispose of raw material and products.

eco-efficiency

The ability to produce and deliver desirable, competitively priced goods and services while progressively reducing the ecological impacts of these ...

Effect Concentration 50 (EC50)

The median exposure concentration (EC50) is the median concentration of a substance that causes some effect in 50 percent of the test animals.

ecological intelligence

A product or process designed to embody the intelligence of natural systems (such as nutrient cycling, interdependence, abundance, diversity, solar...

eco-effectiveness

MBDC’s strategy for designing human industry that is safe, profitable and regenerative, producing economic, ecological and social value.

downcycling

The practice of recycling a material in such a way that much of its inherent value is lost (for example, recycling plastic into park benches).