Environmental Technology

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-009828",
  "term": "Environmental Technology",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. An all-inclusive term used to describe pollution control devices and systems, waste treatment processes and storage facilities, and site remediation technologies and their components that may be utilized to remove pollutants or contaminants from or prevent them from entering the environment. Examples include wet scrubbers (air), soil washing(soil), granulated activated carbon unit (water), and filtration (air, water). Usually, this term applies to hardware-based systems; however, it also applies to methods or techniques used for pollution prevention, pollutant reduction, or containment of contamination to prevent further movement of the contaminants, such as capping, solidification or vitrification, and biological treatment.\n\n2. An all-inclusive term used to describe pollution control devices and systems, waste treatment processes and storage facilities, and site remediation technologies and their components that may be utilized to remove pollutants or contaminants from the environment or prevent them from entering the environment.\n\n3. An all-inclusive term used to describe pollution control devices and systems, waste treatment processes and storage facilities, and site remediation technologies and their components that may be used to remove pollutants or contaminants from, or to prevent them from entering, the environment. Examples include wet scrubbers (air), soil washing (soil), granulated activated carbon unit (water), and filtration (air, water). Usually, this term applies to hardware-based systems; however, it can also apply to methods or techniques used for pollution prevention, pollutant reduction, or containment of contamination to prevent further movement of the contaminants, such as capping, solidification or vitrification, and biological treatment.\n\n4. An all-inclusive term for systems, devices and their components applicable to both hardware and methods or techniques that measure and/or remove pollutants or contaminants and/or prevent them from entering the environment. Examples include but are not limited to: Pollution prevention: measurement, monitoring, reduction, control, and/or treatment processes; such as wet scrubbers (air), granulated activated carbon unit (water), filtration (air, water); Contamination: containment to prevent further movement of the contaminants, such as capping, and solidification or vitrification, and biological treatment; Storage containers, methods, or facilities; such as drums, tanks, and pond or lagoon; Remediation processes and their components, and/or technologies; such as contaminant removal and replacement with backfill, soil washing (soil), pump and treatment, soil vapor extraction (soil), land farming and other bioremediation processes. For the purpose of this Procedure, Environmental Technology does not include or incorporate QA associated with the development and design of IT systems.",
  "subject": "Policy and guidance",
  "references": [
    "EPA Quality Manual 5360; Great Lakes: Quality Management Training - Data Review Glossary; Great Lakes: Quality Management Training - Quality Glossary",
    "Chesapeake Bay Glossary",
    "Guidance for Quality Assurance Project Plans",
    "Environmental Information Quality Procedure Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/environmental-technology/"
}