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This section contains definitions that will help you understand technical and environmental terms used throughout this site as well as in the links provided. Use the index below to help you navigate through the terms. The definitions below have been compiled through numerous governmental and non-governmental sources.
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A
- Accountability
- Acetaldehyde
- Acid mine drainage
- Acid rain
- Acrylonitrile
- Air pollutant
- Air pollution
- Air quality
- Alkali
- Alternative energy
- Alternative transportation fuel
- Aquatic ecosystem
- Asbestos
- Atmosphere
B
C
- Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment
- Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
- Carbon dioxide
- Carbon monoxide
- Carcinogen
- CCME
- CEPA 1999
- CFC
- Chloroethene
- Chlorofluorocarbon
- Cleaner production
- Climate
- Climate change
- CO2
- Combined sewers
- Compliance
- Composting
- Conservation
- Contaminant
D
- Dental amalgam
- Design for Environment
- DfE
- Dichloromethane
- Dioxin
- Direct emissions
- Discharge
- Disposal
- Diversion
- Due diligence
- Dump
E
- E85 (Gasoline)
- EC
- Eco-efficiency
- Ecological footprint
- EcoLogoM
- Ecology
- Ecosystem
- Effluent
- Effluents from pulp mills using bleaching
- Effluents from textile mills that use wet processing
- Emissions
- Employee awareness
- EMS
- End-of-Pipe
- Energy
- Energy audits
- Energy consumption
- Energy efficiency
- Energy efficiency retrofits
- Energy Star
- Environment
- Environment Canada
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental audit
- Environmental Choice Program
- Environmental Emergency Plan
- Environmental Management System
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Performance Agreement
- Environmentally responsible procurement
- EPA
- EPR
- Erosion
- Estuary
- Ethanol
- Ethylene oxide
- Extended Producer Responsibility
F
G
- GHG
- Green Chemistry
- Green power
- Green procurement
- Greenhouse effect
- Greenhouse gas
- Greening Government Operations
- Groundwater
H
- Habitat
- Halon (also known as halocarbon)
- Halon-1211
- Halon-1301
- Hazardous substance
- Hazardous waste
- HCFC
- Heavy metals
- Hexavalent chromium compounds
- HFC
- Hybrid vehicle
- Hydrocarbons
- Hydrology
I
- Incineration
- Industrial ecology
- Inorganic
- Inorganic arsenic compounds
- Inorganic cadmium compounds
- Inorganic fluorides
- Integrated pest management
- Irrigation
- ISO 14000
K
L
- Landfill
- LCA
- LCM
- Lead
- Lean manufacturing
- Liability
- Life-Cycle Analysis
- Life-Cycle Assessment
- Life-Cycle Management
- Low impact renewable energy
M
N
- Natural resources
- Nitric oxide
- Nitrogen oxides
- NOx
- Non-point sources
- Non-renewable
- Non-renewable resources
- Nonylphenol and its ethoxylates
- NPE
O
- ODS
- Organic
- Organic wastes
- Oxidic, sulphidic, and soluble inorganic nickel compounds
- Ozone
- Ozone depleting substances
- Ozone depletion
- Ozone depletion potential
- Ozone layer
P
- P2
- Packaging
- Particulate matter
- PBB
- PCB
- PERC
- Perchloroethylene
- Pest
- Pesticides
- Pollutant
- Polluter Pays Principle
- Pollution
- Pollution control
- Pollution Prevention
- Pollution Prevention Planning
- Polybrominated biphenyl
- Polychlorinated biphenyls
- Post-consumer material
- Product life cycle
- Product stewardship
- Production efficiency
R
- Recover
- Recyclable
- Recycling
- Reduce
- Regulatory measures
- Release
- Renewable energy
- Renewable resource
- Resource recovery
- Retrofit
- Reuse
- Risk
- Risk assessment
- Risk management
S
- Sanitary landfill
- Sanitary sewers
- SD
- Sediments
- Sequestration
- Sewer
- Sink
- Sites
- Small- and medium-sized enterprises
- SME
- Smog
- Solar energy
- Solid waste
- Solvent
- Source
- Source reduction
- Spill
- Stakeholder
- Stewardship
- Stream
- Sulphur dioxide
- Sulphur oxides
- Surface water
- Sustainability
- Sustainable consumption
- Sustainable development
- Sustainable Development Strategy
- Sustainable transportation
T
- Tertiary wastewater treatment
- Tetrachloroethylene
- Toxic
- Toxic substances - water
- Toxicity
- Toxics Management Process
- Transboundary pollutants
- Trichloroethylene
