Instances in which building occupants experience acute health and discomfort effects that appear to be linked to time spent in a building, but no s...
The ability of a substance to induce an immunologically mediated (allergic) response.
SCS, an international organization, provides independent certification and verfication of environmental, sustainable, stewardship, food quality, fo...
Capable of being used again after salvaging, special treatment or processing.
The federal statute that is an amendment to the Solid Waste Disposal Act (of 1965). The four primary goals of RCRA are as follows: protection of hu...
REACH is a new European Community Regulation on chemicals and their safe use (EC 1907/2006). It deals with the Registration, Evaluation, Authorizat...
Fiber made from fabric which was never put into use.
Energy derived from sources that do not become depleted, such as the sun, wind, oceans, rivers, eligible biomass and heat from the earth’s interior.
Capable of being replaced by natural ecological cycles or sound management practices.