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Glossary Terms

Working definitions for the terms that recur across this project: the circular economy, water resource recovery and reuse, and the life cycle methods -- LCA, LCC and S-LCA -- that AWARE combines into one sustainability assessment. They are written for a general reader rather than for specialists.

Showing entries beginning with O.

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Ozone Depletion

The thinning of the stratospheric ozone layer, which shields the Earth from ultraviolet radiation, by substances such as CFCs and some refrigerants, expressed in CFC-11 equivalent. Thanks to the Montreal…

Definitions are written for this site in plain language. The selection of terms was checked against the Life Cycle Initiative terminology (UNEP), the ILCA Common Glossary and the SimaPro LCA glossary, and against ISO 14040/14044, ISO 14046, ISO 14075 and the UNEP Guidelines for Social Life Cycle Assessment (2020).