List of waste management acronyms

The following article contains a list of acronyms and initials used in the waste management industry.^[1]

A

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 European agreement concerning 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
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
SWMP Site Waste Management Plan
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

UA Unitary Authority
UASB Upflow anaerobic sludge blanket digestion
UBC Used Beverage Can
UDP Unitary Development Plan
UEL Upper Explosive Limit
UEEE Used Electrical and Electronic Equipment
UKELA UK Environmental Law Association
UKWIN United Kingdom Without Incineration
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
UROC United Resource Operators Confederation

V

W

WAC Waste Acceptance Criteria
WAG Welsh Assembly Government
WAMITAB Waste Management Industry Training & Advisory Board
WARRAG Waste And Resources Research Advisory Group
WCA Waste Collection Authority
WDA Waste Disposal Authority
WDF WasteDataFlow (web-based system for municipal waste data reporting by UK local authorities)
WEEE Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
WET Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003
WFD Waste Framework Directive
WID Waste Incineration Directive
WIP Waste Implementation Programme
WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
WISARD Waste Integrated Systems Assessment for Recovery and Disposal
WLP Waste Local Plan
WLWA West London Waste Authority
WM2 Technical Guidance WM2 Hazardous Waste: Interpretation of the definition and classification of hazardous waste
WMF Waste Management Facility
WML Waste Management Licence (replaced by Environmental Permits)
WMP Waste Management Plan
WMPEG Waste Minimisation Performance and Efficiency Grant
WMS Waste Management Strategy
WRAP Waste and Resources Action Programme
WRATE Waste and Resources Assessment Tool for the Environment
WRG Waste Recycling Group
WRWA Western Riverside Waste Authority
WS2007 Waste Strategy for England 2007 (superseded by the Waste Management Plan for England (2013))
WSA Waste Strategy Area (e.g. 11 WSAs in Scotland)
WtE Waste-to-Energy
WTF Waste Transfer Facility
WTN Waste Transfer Note