Vocabulary

BIODIVERSITY

is the va­ri­ety of dif­fer­ent types of life found on earth. It is a mea­sure of the va­ri­ety of or­gan­isms present in dif­fer­ent ecosys­tems. This can re­fer to ge­netic vari­a­tion, ecosys­tem vari­a­tion, or species vari­a­tion (num­ber of species) within an area, biome, or planet.

DIVERSITY

the con­di­tion of hav­ing or be­ing com­posed of dif­fer­ing el­e­ments :  va­ri­ety; es­pe­cially :  the in­clu­sion of dif­fer­ent types of peo­ple (as peo­ple of dif­fer­ent races or cul­tures) in a group or or­ga­ni­za­tion

ECO-EFFICIENCY

Pro­duc­ing goods and ser­vices with less ma­te­rial or en­ergy; us­ing less re­sources; us­ing them more
ef­fec­tively.

RECYCLABLE WASTE

Waste that can be re-used as ma­te­rial or en­ergy pro­duc­tion such as: pa­per, card­board, metal and en­ergy waste.

RECYCLING

A process of us­ing waste ma­te­ri­als  for the pro­duc­tion of  new prod­ucts to pre­vent the amount of waste of po­ten­tially use­ful ma­te­ri­als. For ex­am­ple, the use of re­cy­cled pa­per in newsprint.

REASONABLE CONSUMPTION

Con­tin­ued growth of ques­tion­ing. What is enough for us? What do we re­ally ap­pre­ci­ate and need? How can we im­prove the qual­ity of life while re­duc­ing the over con­sump­tion?

PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE

Pro­duc­tion stages from the raw ma­te­ri­als to con­sump­tion and to waste ac­cu­mu­la­tion.
(sup­ply of raw ma­te­ri­als + trans­porta­tion + man­u­fac­tur­ing + dis­tri­bu­tion + us­age + waste man­age­ment)

RE-USE OF PRODUCTS

Re-us­ing prod­ucts or re­pair­ing or re-con­struc­ing them for re-use that oth­er­wise would have been thrown away.

RECYCLED (secondary) PRODUCT

The prod­uct is man­u­fac­tured from re­cy­cled ma­te­ri­als such as re­cy­cled pa­per.