List of waste management acronyms

• AATF Approved Authorised Treatment Facility • ABPO Animal By-Products Order • ABPR Animal By-Products Regulations • ABS Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene • ACE Alliance of Beverage Cartons and the Environment • ACL Approved Carriers List • ACM Asbestos Containing Material • ACoP Approved Code of Practice • ACP Advisory Committee on Packaging • AD Anaerobic Digestion • ADBA Anaerobic Digestion & Biogas Association • ADI Acceptable Daily Intake • ADR Accord Europeen Relatif aux Transport International des Marchandises Dangereuses par Route, a European treaty concerned with the international carriage of dangerous goods by road • AE Approved Exporter • AfOR Association for Organics Recycling • ALANI Association of Local Authorities in Northern Ireland • ALARP As Low As Reasonably Practicable • ALCO Association of London Cleansing Officers • ANPR Automatic Number Plate Recognition • APC Air Pollution Control • APCR Air Pollution Control Residue • APSRG Associate Parliamentary Sustainable Resource Group • AR Accredited Reprocessor • ARF Advanced Recycling Fee • ARM Alternative Raw Material • ASBO Anti Social Behaviour Order • ASR Automotive Shredder Residue • ASSURE Association for Sustainable Use and Recovery of Resources • ATEX Atmosphères Explosives Directive 94/9/EC • ATF Authorised Treatment Facility (e.g. for the treatment of end-of-life vehicles (see ELV) and waste electrical and electronic equipment (see WEEE)) • ATT Advanced Thermal Treatment • AV Abandoned Vehicle/s • AVAC Automated Vacuum Collection • AWC Alternate Weekly Collections • AWCS Automated Waste Collection System • AWTT Alternative Waste Treatment Technologies • AWP Area Waste Plan ==B==

• BAN Basel Action Network • BANANA Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything • BAT (NEEC) Best available technique (not entailing excessive costs) • BATRRT Best Available Treatment Recycling and Recovery Technology • BCS Batteries Compliance Scheme • BDF Biodiesel fuel • BFR Brominated Flame Retardant • BIFM British Institute of Facilities Management • BMRA British Metals Recycling Association • BMT Biological Mechanical Treatment • BMW Biodegradable Municipal Waste • BOD Biological Oxygen Demand • BOO Build Own Operate • BOT Build Operate Transfer • BPEO Best Practicable Environmental Option • BPF British Plastics Federation • BPPO Best Practicable Planning Option • BRBA Buy Recycled Business Alliance (Australia) • BREEAM Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method • BREF BAT Reference Note • BREW(p) Business Resource Efficiency and Waste programme • BRITE Better Regulation in the Environment (Environment Agency initiative) • BRE Building Research Establishment • BSI British Standards Institute • BSI PAS 100 Specification for composted materials • BSI PAS 101 Recovered container glass: Specification for quality and guidance for good practice in collection • BSI PAS 102 Specification for processed glass for selected secondary end markets • BSI PAS 103 Collected waste plastics packaging: Specification for quality and guidance for good practice in collection and preparation for recycling • BSI PAS 104 Wood recycling in the panelboard manufacturing industry: Specification for quality and guidance for good practice for the supply of post consumer wood for consumption in the manufacture of panelboard products • BSI PAS 105 Recovered paper sourcing and quality for UK end markets • BSI PAS 107 Specification for the manufacture and storage of size reduced tyre materials • BSI PAS 108 Specification for the production of tyre bales for use in construction • BSI PAS 109 Specification for the production of recycled gypsum from waste plasterboard • BSI PAS 110 Specification for whole digestate, separated liquor and separated fibre derived from the anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable materials • BSI PAS 111 Specification for the requirements and test methods for processing waste wood • BSI PAS 141 Reuse of used and waste electrical and electronic equipment (UEEE and WEEE). Process management - Specification • BVPI Best Value Performance Indicator • BVPP Best Value Performance Plan ==C==

• CA Civic amenity site • CAFÉ Clean Air For Europe programme • CATNAP Cheapest Available Technology Narrowly Avoiding Prosecution • CATNIP Cheapest Available Technology Not Involving Prosecution • CAVE Citizens against virtually everything • CBI Confederation of British Industry • CBM Compressed Biomethane • CCGT Combined cycle gas turbine • CCHP Combined cooling, heating and power • CCL Climate Change Levy • CCT Compulsory Competitive Tendering • C&D Construction and demolition (e.g. C&D waste) • CDG(CPL) Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail (Classification, Packaging and Labelling) Regulations 1994 • CEC Commission of the European Communities • CEMP Construction Environmental Management Plan • CEN Comite Europeen de Normalisation (European Committee for Standardization) • CEWEP Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants • CFC Chlorofluorocarbon • CfSH Code for Sustainable Homes • CHEM Container Handling Equipment Manufacturers • CHIP Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations • CHP Combined heat and power • CHPA Combined Heat and Power Association • C&I Commercial and industrial (e.g. C&I waste) • CIPFA Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy • CIWEM Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management • CIWM Chartered Institution of Wastes Management • CIWMB California Integrated Waste Management Board • CL:AIRE Contaminated Land: Application In Real Environments CLAIRE • CLEA Contaminated Land Exposure Assessment • CLO Compost-like output • CLR Contaminated Land Register • CNEA Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act • COD Chemical oxygen demand or certificate of destruction • COMAH Control of Major Accident Hazards • COPA Control of Pollution Act • COPLR Code of Practice for Litter and Refuse • CoRWM Committee on Radioactive Waste Management • COSHH Control of Substances Hazardous to Health • CoTC Certificate of Technical Competence • CPA Comprehensive Performance Assessment • CRC CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (formerly the Carbon Reduction Commitment) • CRC Community recycling centre • CRN Community Recycling Network • CRNS Community Recycling Network for Scotland • CRR Campaign for Real Recycling • CRT Cathode-ray tube • CSER Corporate, social and environmental responsibilities • CSR Corporate social responsibility • CSTR Continuous stirred-tank reactor • CV Calorific value • CWMRE Creating Welsh Markets for Recyclates • CWP Cheshire Waste Partnership • CWR Controlled Waste Regulations ==D==

• DAC Dense Asphaltic Concrete • DBFO Design Build Finance and Operate • DCF Designated Collection Facility • DCLG Department for Communities and Local Government • DECC Department of Energy and Climate Change • DECLG Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Ireland) • DEFRA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs • DGXI Directorate General of the European Commission responsible for the Environment • DLGE Department of Local Government and the Environment (Isle of Man) • DMR Dry Mixed Recyclables • DoC Duty of Care • DOENI Department for the Environment (Northern Ireland) • DRI Dynamic Respiration Index • DSD Duales System Deutschland • DSO Direct Service Organisation • DTI Department of Trade and Industry • DTLR Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions • DTS Distributor Takeback Scheme • DWP Dorset Waste Partnership ==E==

• EA Enforcement Agency • EBRA European Battery Recycling Association • ECN European Compost Network • EDIE Environmental Data Interactive Exchange • eDoC Electronic Duty of Care • EEA European Environment Agency • EfW Energy-from-Waste • EGSB Expanded Granular Sludge Bed • EHO Environmental health officer • EHS Environment & Heritage Service (Northern Ireland) • EIA Environmental Impact Assessment • EIC Environmental Industries Commission • EIR Environmental Information Regulations • ELSEF East London Sustainable Energy Facility • ELV End of Life Vehicles • ELWA East London Waste Authority • EMAS Eco-Management and Audit Scheme • EMS Environmental Management System • ENTRUST The European Trust Scheme Regulatory Body • ENCAMS Environmental Campaigns (umbrella name for former Going for Green and Tidy Britain Group) • EP Environmental Permit • EPA Environmental Protection Act or Environmental Protection Agency • EPERN Electronic Packaging Waste Export Recovery Notes • EPOW European Pathway to Zero Waste • EPR Environmental Permitting Regulations • EPRN Electronic Packaging Waste Recovery Notes • EPS Expanded Polystyrene • ERFO European Recovered Fuels Organisation • ERI Energy Recovery Incineration • ES Environmental Statement • ESA Environmental Services Association • ESWET European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology • ETBC Electronics TakeBack Coalition • ETRMA European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers' Association • ETS Emissions Trading Scheme • ETSU Energy Technology Support Unit • EUHWL EU Hazardous Waste List (now incorporated into EWC) • EUROPEN European Organization for Packaging and the Environment • EWC European Waste Catalogue • EWP Essex Waste Partnership ==F==

• FABRA Foodchain & Biomass Renewables Association • FAPP Fit And Proper Person • FBA Furnace Bottom Ash • FCC Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas • FEAD Fédération Européenne des Activités du Déchet et de l’Environnement European Federation of Waste Management and Environmental Services • FEL Front End Loader • FGT Flue Gas Treatment • FOE Friends of the Earth • FORWARRD Forum for Waste and Resource Research and Development • FPN Fixed Penalty Notice • Frag Fragmentised Waste (e.g. from the vehicle recycling industry) • FTE Full-time equivalent • FWD Food Waste Disposer ==G==

• GAIA Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives • GCV Gross Calorific Value • GHG Greenhouse Gas • GIB Green Investment Bank • GIS Geographical Information System • GLA Greater London Authority • GMWDA Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority • GWP Global Warming Potential ==H==

• HCRW Healthcare Risk Waste • HCW Healthcare Waste • HDPE High Density Polyethylene • HFC Hydrofluorocarbon • HHW Household Hazardous Waste • HIPS High Impact Polystyrene • HLW High Level Waste • HSC Health and Safety Commission • HSE Health & Safety Executive • HTI High Temperature Incineration • HW Household waste • HWOL HazWasteOnline (web-based tool for assessing and classifying hazardous waste) • HWR Hazardous Waste Regulations • HWRA Household Waste Recycling Act • HWRC Household Waste Recycling Centre ==I==

• IBA Incinerator Bottom Ash • IBAA Incinerator Bottom Ash Aggregate • ICE Institution of Civil Engineers • ICER Industry Council for Electronic Equipment Recycling • ICW International Catering Waste (catering waste from means of transport operating internationally) • IED Industrial Emissions Directive • ILW Intermediate Level Waste • INCPEN Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment • IPP Integrated Product Policy • IPPC Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control • ISRI Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries • ISWA International Solid Waste Association • IVC In-vessel Composting • IWM Integrated Waste Management or Institute of Wastes Management ==J==

• JMWMS Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy • JWA Joint Waste Authority ==K==

• KAT Kerbside Assessment Tool ==L==

• LA Local Authority • LAAPC Local Authority Air Pollution Control • LACMW Local Authority Collected Municipal Waste (household and commercial waste where collected by the local authority and which is similar in nature and composition as required by the Landfill Directive) • LACW Local Authority Collected Waste (all waste collected by the local authority. This is a slightly broader concept than LACMW as it would include both this and non-municipal fractions such as construction and demolition waste) • LAPC Local Air Pollution Control • LARAC Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee • LAS Landfill Allowance Scheme • LASU Local Authority Support Unit • LATS Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme • LAWAS Local Authority Waste Arisings Survey • LAWDC Local Authority Waste Disposal Company • LCA Life Cycle Analysis/Assessment • LCF Landfill Communities Fund • LCW Low Carbon Waste • LCPD Large Combustion Plant Directive • LDPE Low Density Polyethylene • LEA Local Enforcement Agency • LEL Lower Explosive Limit • LFD Landfill Directive • LFG Landfill Gas • LFT Landfill Tax • LGA Local Government Association • LHIP Landfill and Hazardous Waste Implementation Programme • LIM Loose Incinerator Metals • LLDPE Linear Low Density Polyethylene e.g. plastic wrap and stretch wrap • LLW Low Level Waste • LOLER Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 • LOW List of Wastes • LPSA Local Public Service Agreement • LTCS Landfill Tax Credit Scheme • LWaRB London Waste and Recycling Board ==M==

• MTD Metric Ton per Day • MAC Maximum Allowable Concentration • MBI Mass Burn Incineration • MBT Mechanical Biological Treatment • MCA Municipal Collection Authority • MCERTS Monitoring Certification Scheme • MCDA Multi Criteria Decision Analysis • MDC Metropolitan District Council • MDR Mixed Dry Recyclables • MEL Maximum Exposure Limit • MHSWR Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations • MHT Mechanical Heat Treatment • MMRCV Multi-Modal Refuse Collection Vehicle • MREC Materials Recovery and Energy Centre • MRF Materials Recovery Facility (or Recycling or Factory) • MRWA Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority formerly known as Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority • MSW Municipal Solid Waste • MSWI Municipal Solid Waste Incineration • MVDA Motor Vehicle Dismantlers Association • MWDA Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority as of December 2011 renamed as Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority • MWLP Minerals and Waste Local Plan • MWMS Municipal Waste Management Strategy ==N==

• NAWDO National Association of Waste Disposal Officers • NCAS National Compliance Assessment Service • NCH National Clearing House • NCV Net calorific value • NELVS Natural End of Life Vehicles • NFFO Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation • NGG New Generation Group (CIWM programme renamed New Member Network) • NGO Non-Governmental Organisation • NHHWF National Household Hazardous Waste Forum • NIEA Northern Ireland Environment Agency • NIMBY Not In My Back-Yard • NISP National Industrial Symbiosis Programme • NLWA North London Waste Authority • NOF New Opportunities Fund • NPWD National Packaging Waste Database • NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US) • NSIP Nationally significant infrastructure project • NVQ National Vocational Qualification • NWCPO: National Waste Collection Permit Office (in Ireland) • NWMRF National Waste Minimisation & Recycling Fund • NWP National Waste Plan or Norfolk Waste Partnership • NWPA Nuclear Waste Policy Act • NEST Nigerian Environmental Study Action Team ==O==

• OBB Old Boxboard • OCC Old Corrugated Containers • ODPM Office of the Deputy Prime Minister • ODS Ozone Depleting Substance • OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development • OFGEM Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Great Britain) • OFWAT Office of Water Services (England and Wales) • OJEU Official Journal of the European Union • OMA Operator Monitoring Assessment • OPRA Operator Pollution Risk Appraisal • ORA Oil Recycling Association • OWP Oxfordshire Waste Partnership ==P==

• PAFA Packaging and Films Association • pams Periodicals and Magazines • PAS Publicly Available Specification • PAYT Pay As You Throw • PCB Polychlorinated Biphenyl • PCS Producer Compliance Scheme • PELVs Premature End of Life Vehicles (relatively new cars which have not survived the expected life span that most vehicle manufacturers build into their vehicles) • PERN Packaging Export Recovery Note • PET Polyethylene Terephthalate • PFI Private Finance Initiative • PIU Performance and Innovation Unit • PM Particulate Matter, airborne (e.g. PM 10 ~ particles under 10 micrometres) • PP Polypropylene • PP Proximity Principle • PPC Pollution Prevention and Control Act • PPE Personal Protective Equipment • PPG Planning Policy Guidance Notes (e.g. PPG 10 for waste management) • PPP Public Private Partnership or Polluter-pays principle • PPS Planning Policy Statement • PR Producer Responsibility • PRF Plastics Reclamation Facility • PRN Packaging Recovery Note • PS Polystyrene • PSA Public Service Agreement • PUWER Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations • PVB Polyvinyl Butyral • PVC Polyvinyl Chloride ==Q==

• QMS Quality Management System • QP Quality Protocol • QUANGO Quasi Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation • QESH Quality, Environment, Safety and Health • QUENSH QUality, ENvironment, Safety and Health ==R==

• 3Rs Reduce, Reuse, Recycle • RAD Rotary Aerobic Digestion • RAG Recycling Advisory Group, Scotland • RCE Regional Centre of Excellence • RCEP Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution • RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (US) • RCV Refuse Collection Vehicle • RDA Regional Development Agency (all abolished in England on 31 March 2012) • RDF Refuse Derived Fuel • REACH Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals • RECAP Recycling in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough • RECOUP Recycling Of Used Plastics • REL Rear End Loader • REMADE Recycled Market Development • REPAC Regional Environmental Protection Advisory Committee • RFID Radio Frequency Identification • RIA Regulatory Impact Assessment • RID Regulations concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail • RIDDOR Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 • RGN Regulatory Guidance Note • RMA U.S. Rubber Manufacturers Association • RO Renewables Obligation • ROC Renewables Obligation Certificates • RoHS Restriction of Hazardous Substances • RoRo Rolonof/Roll-on Roll-off, demountable container system • ROTATE Recycling and Organic Technology Advisory Team • RSA Recycled & Secondary Aggregate • RSA Restoring Sustainable Abstraction • RTAB Regional Technical Advisory Body • RVM Reverse Vending Machine • RWM Recycling and Waste Management Exhibition • RWMO Radioactive Waste Management Organisation ==S==

• SEA Strategic Environmental Assessment • SEI Sustainable Electronics Initiative • SELCHP South East London Combined Heat and Power • SEPA Scottish Environment Protection Agency • SGV Soil Guideline Value • SIG Special Interest Group of CIWM • SLF Secondary Liquid Fuel • SLWP South London Waste Partnership • SMDSA Sanitary Medical Disposal Services Association • SNIFFER Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research • SNRHW Stable Non-Reactive Hazardous Wastes • SocEnv Society for the Environment • SRB Single Regeneration Budget • SRF Secondary Recovered Fuel or Solid or Specified • SSWAT Site Specific Waste Analysis Tool • STA Source Testing Association • SWA Solid Waste Analysis • SWAG Scottish Waste Advisory Group • SWCN Special Waste Consignment Note • SWDF Solid Waste Disposal Facilities • SWDWP South West Devon Waste Partnership • SWEN Special Waste Explanatory Note • SWF Strategic Waste Fund (Scotland) • SWM Sustainable Waste Management • SWMA Strategic Waste Management Assessment • SWP Shropshire Waste Partnership or Somerset Waste Partnership or Surrey Waste Partnership ==T==

• TAC Technical Adaptation Committee • TAD Thermophilic Aerobic Digestion • TCLP Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure • TAN Technical Advice Note (Wales) • TEEP Technically, Environmentally and Economically Practicable • TEF Toxic Equivalent Factor • TFS Transfrontier Shipment • THP Thermal hydrolysis • TLS Transfer Loading Station • tpa tonnes per annum • TRACS Tyre Recovery Activity Compliance Scheme (Ireland) • TRAID Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development • TRF Thermal Recovery Facility • TRIF Technology and Research Innovation Fund • TT Thermal Treatment • TUPE Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) ==U==