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The Business Model Canvas is a business tool used to
visualise all the building blocks when you want to start a
Business Model business, including customers, route to market, value

Canvas proposition and finance.
Source: https://eship.ox.ac.uk/business-model-canvas-
explained/
It is a self-regulating business model that helps a company

Corporate Social be socially accountable- to itself, its stakeholders, and the
public.
Responsibility
Source: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/corp-
social-responsibility.asp
It is a label of environmental excellence that is awarded

to products and services meeting high environmental
EU Ecolabel standards throughout their life-cycle: from raw material
extraction, to production, distribution and disposal.
Source: https://ec.europa.eu/environment/ecolabel/
It is the association between industrial facilities or
companies in which the waste or by-products of one
Industrial become raw materials for another.

Symbiosis Source: https://nordregio.org/nordregio-
magazine/issues/industrial-symbiosis/what-is-industrial-
symbiosis/
Document providing binding legislative rules, adopted by
an authority.
Regulation
Source:
https://oshwiki.eu/wiki/Standardisation_and_certification
Documented agreements containing technical

specifications or other precise criteria to be used
consistently as rules, guidelines or definitions, to ensure
Standard
that materials, products, processes and services are fit for
their purpose
Source: ISO, 1996.
Module 3: “Plastic waste management in your SME”

Bioplastics Plastics made from sustainable raw materials (maize,
wood, sugar, or potatoes).
Eco-design Aims at reducing environmental impacts of products at
the design stage. It entails the identification,
monitorisation and continuous product improvement to
make it as much environmentally friendly as possible.

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