Glossary and abbreviations

(Earnings Before Interest and Tax) EBIT, an intermediate balance in a company's income statement, is operating income before restructuring costs and goodwill amortization. It is also known as operating profit.

Eco-design consists of building environmental protection into the design of assets and services. It leads to the manufacture and sale of products that are more environmentally friendly throughout their lifecycle, i.e., from the extraction of raw materials and the waste generated in the manufacturing process, to the use and ultimate disposal of the products.

Effluent generally refers to household and municipal wastewater (effluent channeled to treatment plants) and, by extension, wastewater from industrial processes.

End-of-Life Vehicles

Environmental Management System

Waste contains energy in the form of calories, which are released by burning and recovered to produce electricity and/or heat and/or steam This can then be used, for example, for heating buildings.
Because of its energy potential, landfill gas is also recovered for heat, steam or electricity production, cogeneration (combined production of electricity and heat), conversion to vehicle fuel, or reinjection into the gas distribution network.