Asset Management
Asset Management is to recover residual value and provide refurbishment or secure IT disposal routes, which can give high financial return.

'Closed Loop' Printer Ink Cartridge Recycling System
A newly developed recycling system which allows can sort the printer ink cartridges, recover and separate inks by color, separate the metals and plastics and maximize revenue potential.

Data Destruction
To destruct data to avoid leakage of information by different ways.

Data Erase
To erase data to protect the confidentiality of information.

Data Wipe
It is a process to clean all deleted data files and folders from your hard disk drive and other removable USB media to safeguard your computer privacy.

DoD 5220-22M
The DoD 5220-22M specification is utilized by the U.S. Department of Defense in dealing with classified information. DoD 5220-22M is regarded as a standard for sanitization to counter data remanence

Electronic Recycling
Recycling of computers and electronic components to reduce the impacts of electronic products on the environment

Emission
The production or sending out of heat, gas which may include harmful pollutants

End-of-Life
End-of-life (EOL) is a term used with respect to a retailed product, indicating that the product is in the end of its product lifetime and a vendor will no longer be marketing, selling, or promoting a particular product and may also be limiting or ending support for said product

Environment
The natural world in which people, animals and plants live

Environmental groups
Organizations and groups established with the principal aim to defend the interest of the environment. Examples of environmental groups in Hong Kong are the Conservancy Association, Friends of the Earth, Green Power, Green Lantau Association, the Hong Kong Marine Conservation Society and World Wide Fund for Nature Hong Kong.

Environmental management system
The part of the overall management system that includes organizational structure, planning activities, responsibilities, practices, procedures, processes and resources for developing, implementing, achieving, reviewing and maintaining the environmental policy.

Environmental performance
Measurable results of an environmental management system, relate to an organization’s control on its environmental aspect, based on its environmental policy.

EuP
The EuP (Energy using Products) Directive is to improve the energy efficiency throughout the lifecycle and thus reduce emissions for production, usage and disposal of energy-using products.

Exploitation
The use of natural resources to get benefits, which may do harm to the environment.

E-waste
E-waste is a waste type consisting of any broken or unwanted electrical or electronic device.

Green Manufacturing
Green Manufacturing means the manufacturing methods that support and sustain a renewable way of producing products and/or services that do no harm to you or the environment. 

Hazardous Substances
Hazardous Substance is any solid, liquid, or gas that can harm people, other living organisms, property, or the environment.

Hong Kong Computer Recycling Programme (CRP)
The Hong Kong Computer Recycling Programme (CRP) is a voluntary Producer Responsibility Scheme. It has been set up and funded by the computer trade to provide a mean for the public to manage their used computer equipment in an environmentally sound manner.

Hong Kong EcoPark
The Hong Kong EcoPark is a key element of the strategy that aims to promote the local recycling industry and jump-start a circular economy by providing long term land for the environmental and recycling industry.

Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department (EPD)
The Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department (EPD) is a government department responsible for developing policies covering environmental protection, nature conservation; enforcing environmental legislation etc.

Hong Kong Occupational Safety Health Award
"Hong Kong Occupation Safety & Health Award" is an award organized by the Occupational Safety and Health Council, the Labor Department, the Environment, Transport and Works Bureau, and ten other leading organizations, aiming to recognize corporations with outstanding achievements in sustaining safety and health at the workplace.

HSBC Living Business Award
The HSBC Living Business Award, organized by the HSBC, is a corporate responsibility program aimed to help enterprises become more profitable, responsible and productive by implementing socially and environmentally responsible business practices.

ISO 9001:2000
ISO 9001:2000 is a standard for quality management systems. Certification to an ISO 9000 standard certifies that formalized business processes are being applied.

ISO 14001:2004
The ISO 14000 environmental management standards exist to help organizations minimize how their operations negatively affect the environment.

Landfill
Site for the disposal of wastes arising from domestic activities

Life Cycle
A life cycle can be divided into several stages characterized by the revenue generated by the product. The life cycle concept may apply to a brand or to a category of product. Its duration may be as short as a few months for a fad item or a century or more for product categories.

Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher
The Community Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher programme works with eligible refurbishers to provide genuine Microsoft software on refurbished computers for eligible recipients. This programme benefits the environment by giving new life to old computers, prevents their premature disposal and encourages the re-use and recycling of computers.

Occupational Safety and Health Council
The Council is a statutory body for promoting safety and health at work and sustaining the valuable workforce of Hong Kong.

ODM
ODM (original design manufacturer) is a company which manufactures a product which ultimately will be branded by another firm for sale.

OEM
OEM (original equipment manufacturer) is the original manufacturer of a component for a product, which may be resold by another company.

PCB
PCB (printed circuit board) is used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways, or traces, etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate.

Polluter Pays Principle
The polluter pays principle is the principle that the party responsible for producing pollution should also be responsible for paying for the damage done to the natural environment.

Recovery
The process of obtaining materials or energy resources from waste

Recycle
Recycling involves processing used materials into new products in order to prevent waste of potentially useful materials

Refurbishment
Refurbishment is the process of maintenance or minor repair of an item, either aesthetically or mechanically to increase the value of the item.

Reuse
Reuse is using an item more than once

Reverse Logistics
Reverse logistics is the process of moving end-of-life, damaged, and excess inventory of material / goods from what is their normal final destination to another for the purpose of recapturing value, and/or proper disposal.

RoHS
The RoHS (Restriction of use of Hazardous Substances) legislation covers the restriction of lead and other potentially hazardous substances used in electrical and electronic equipment.

SA8000
SA8000 is the first global ethical standardby Social Accountability International (SAI) to ensure decent working conditions.

Safety Enhancement Program Award (Hong Kong Occupational Safety Health Award)
The Safety Enhancement Program Award aims to recognize those organizations with distinguished achievements in developing specialized OSH enhancement programs to reduce risks at workplaces.

Safety Management System Award (Hong Kong Occupational Safety Health Award)
The purpose of the Safety Management System Award is to give recognition to organizations that have achieved best practices in OSH through the implementation of sound safety management systems

Safety Performance Award (Hong Kong Occupational Safety Health Award)
The Safety Performance Award is to recognize those organizations that have successfully achieved an above industry safety record in two sectors the Enterprises and including Construction Site.

Safety Technological Achievement Award (Hong Kong Occupational Safety Health Award)
The Safety Technological Achievement Award is to recognize those organizations that have successfully developed and applied OSH technology to strengthen safety performance, in particular, where such technology can be implemented on an industry-wide basis.

Sustainability Risk
The environmental and social risks that most enterprises encounter

Waste Disposal
Waste Disposal is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal of waste materials. It is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health or the environment.

WEEE
WEEE is "waste electrical and electronic equipment". It includes all types of household electrical and electronic appliances such as computers, air conditioners, washing machines, refrigerators, televisions, audio-visual equipment, rice cookers, electric kettles etc.

WEEE Directive
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) is the European Community directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) which became European Law in February 2003, setting the collection, recycling and recovery targets for all types of electrical goods.

WEEE Recycling Association
A dedicated non-profit making organization formed by the computer trade to manage the Computer recycling programme.

3R
An environmental principle – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle- to ensure the conservation of resources and energy, the reduction of waste and the avoidance of polluting risks

'7S' management system
It is a management system originated in Japan. The '7S' stands for 'Sorting, Systematization, Sanitize, Standardization, Self-discipline, Save and Safety'.