Green

Sick Building Syndrome (SBS)

02.10.2025

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...

sensitization

The ability of a substance to induce an immunologically mediated (allergic) response.

Scientific Certification Systems (SCS)

SCS, an international organization, provides independent certification and verfication of environmental, sustainable, stewardship, food quality, fo...

reusable

Capable of being used again after salvaging, special treatment or processing.

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

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...

Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical (REACH)

REACH is a new European Community Regulation on chemicals and their safe use (EC 1907/2006). It deals with the Registration, Evaluation, Authorizat...

reprocessed fiber

Fiber made from fabric which was never put into use.

renewable energy

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.

renewable

Capable of being replaced by natural ecological cycles or sound management practices.