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This is the process of locking carbon away in soil, forests, or geologic formations.
What is Carbon Sequestration?
This third party audit methodology is used to assess labor, safety and, with an additional pillar, environmental practices.
What is a SMETA Audit?
This percentage of Earth's water is fresh, accessible, and available for human use. The rest is salty, frozen, or locked somewhere that requires a treasure map.
What is 1%
In distilling, this waste byproduct must be managed under fire safety AND hazardous waste rules, even though it's technically drinkable by someone with poor judgement.
What is Heads & Tails?
(also acceptable Spent Spirits or Distillation Cuts)
This treatment process removes FOG and other solids by attaching them to tiny bubbles.
What is a DAF (dissolved air flotation)?
This metric is used to report CO2 per unit of product.
What is Carbon Intensity?
This federal law regulates discharges to the WOTUS
What is the Clean Water Act?
This is the only substance on Earth that exists in all phases, solid, liquid, and gas, at normal temperatures.
What is Water?
Common brewery and distillery byproducts with high potential for benefitial reuse?
What are spent grain, DDG, mash, or fruit pulp?
In this process, critters break down organic material and produce biogas.
What is anaerobic digestion?
"I didn't actually install solar panels, but I bought official paperwork from someone who did"
What is a Renewable Energy Credit?
You remember about this report (or regulation) on February 20th every year and it is due March 1.
What is the EPCRA Tier 2 Report?
This portion of water is intentionally discharged to control dissolved solids and maintain system performance.
What is Blowdown?
You might hear a craft brewer saying, "it adds pineapple undertones with a citrus whisper" when adding this ingredient.
What are hops?
This process involves using wastewater to irrigate farmland or sludge to fertilize farmland.
What is Land Application?
Indirect emissions that come from everywhere except your own facility - For example, the power consumed when a consumer microwaves your product for 10 minutes instead of the recommended 3.
What are Scope 3 Emissions?
This policy makes manufacturers responsible for managing end-of-life impacts of their packaging.
What is Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)?
This food (a fruit) (allegedly) uses the most water per individual fruit.
What is Almond, at 1 gallon per nut. Fruit.
This capture system is active in the fermentation step, reduces emissions, and gives a brewery free carbonation.
What is a CO2 Recovery System?
This process adjusts the negative log of the concentration of hydronium ions in the wastewater, to a safer discharge level, usually between 5.5-8.5.
What is pH adjustment?
Validated emissions-reduction goals that align with your pathway to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C
What are Science Based Targets.
This chemical family has spurred new discharge limits, landfill restrictions, and more acronyms than anyone asked for - all because they don't break down during normal treatment processes, abnormal treatment processes, or any process, really.
What are PFAS?
This is the number of gallons the average American uses per day. Be correct within 20 gallons.
What is 80-100?
Acceptable 60-120.
A number, any number will do.
What is: literally any number?
Membrane step with pore size cutoff of around 0.01-0.1 microns. Small enough to remove bacteria, colloids, and large molecule organics, but not small enough to erase last night's bad decisions.
What is Ultra Filtration (UF)?