The following article contains a list of acronyms and initials used in the
waste management
Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.
This includes the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste, together with monitoring ...
industry.
A to Z - Waste & Resources (CIWM)
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*AATF Approved Authorised Treatment Facility
Approved may refer to:
*Approved drug, a preparation that has been validated for a therapeutic use by a ruling authority of a government
*''Approved'', a 2013 album by Chester Thompson
Chester Cortez Thompson (born December 11, 1948) is an Amer ...
*ABPO Animal By-Products Order The European Union's Animal By-Products Regulations (Regulation No 1069/2009) allows for the treatment of some animal by-products in composting and biogas plants ( anaerobic digesters). The following article describes procedures required to allow s ...
*ABPR Animal By-Products Regulations
*ABS Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) (chemical formula (C8H8)''x''·(C4H6)''y''·(C3H3N)''z'' is a common thermoplastic polymer. Its glass transition temperature is approximately . ABS is amorphous and therefore has no true melting point.
A ...
*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
Anaerobic digestion is a sequence of processes by which microorganisms break down biodegradable material in the absence of oxygen. The process is used for industrial or domestic purposes to manage waste or to produce fuels. Much of the ferm ...
*ADBA Anaerobic Digestion & Biogas Association
*ADI Acceptable Daily Intake
Acceptable daily intake or ADI is a measure of the amount of a specific substance (originally applied for a food additive, later also for a residue of a veterinary drug or pesticide) in food or drinking water that can be ingested (orally) daily ove ...
*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
ALARP ("as low as reasonably practicable"), or ALARA ("as low as reasonably achievable"), is a principle in the regulation and management of safety-critical and safety-involved systems. The principle is that the residual risk shall be reduced as ...
*ALCO Association of London Cleansing Officers
*ANPR Automatic Number Plate Recognition
Automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR; see also #Other names, other names below) is a technology that uses optical character recognition on images to read vehicle registration plates to create vehicle location data. It can use existing close ...
*APC Air Pollution Control
Emission standards are the legal requirements governing air pollutants released into the atmosphere. Emission standards set quantitative limits on the permissible amount of specific air pollutants that may be released from specific sources ove ...
*APCR Air Pollution Control Residue
*APSRG Associate Parliamentary Sustainable Resource Group
*AR Accredited Reprocessor
*ARF Advanced Recycling Fee
*ARM Alternative Raw Material
Alternative or alternate may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
* Alternative (Kamen Rider), Alternative (''Kamen Rider''), a character in the Japanese TV series ''Kamen Rider Ryuki''
* The Alternative (film), ''The Alternative'' (film), a 19 ...
*ASBO Anti Social Behaviour Order
*ASR Automotive Shredder Residue
The shredding of automobiles and major household appliances is a process where a hammermill acts as a giant tree chipper by grinding the materials fed into it to fist-size pieces. The shredding of automobiles results in a mixture of ferrous metal ...
*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
Abandoned vehicles are decrepit cars or car wrecks or cars that have become useless in other ways, which are abandoned and illegally dumped in the environment. Abandoned vehicles will be tagged with an official notice when found or reported. C ...
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*AVAC Automated Vacuum Collection
An automated vacuum waste collection system, also known as pneumatic refuse collection, or automated vacuum collection (AVAC), transports waste at high speed through underground pneumatic tubes to a collection station where it is compacted and sea ...
*AWC Alternate Weekly Collections
*AWCS Automated Waste Collection System
*AWTT Alternative Waste Treatment Technologies
*AWP Area Waste Plan
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*BAN Basel Action Network
The Basel Action Network (BAN), a charitable non-governmental organization, works to combat the export of toxic waste from technology and other products from industrialized societies to developing countries. BAN is based in Seattle, Washington, ...
*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 Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) are organobromine compounds that have an inhibitory effect on combustion chemistry and tend to reduce the flammability of products containing them. The brominated variety of commercialized chemical flame retardants ...
*BIFM British Institute of Facilities Management
*BMRA British Metals Recycling Association
*BMT Biological Mechanical Treatment
*BMW Biodegradable Municipal Waste
Biodegradable waste includes any organic matter in waste which can be broken down into carbon dioxide, water, methane or simple organic molecules by micro-organisms and other living things by composting, aerobic digestion, anaerobic digestion ...
*BOD Biological Oxygen Demand
*BOO Build Own Operate
*BOT Build Operate Transfer
Build may refer to:
* Engineering something
* Construction
* Physical body stature, especially muscle size; usually of the human body
* Build (game engine), a 1995 first-person shooter engine
* "Build" (song), a 1987 song by The Housemartins
* ...
*BPEO Best Practicable Environmental Option
*BPF British Plastics Federation The British Plastics Federation (BPF) is the main trade body for the plastics industry in the UK.
History
It was incorporated on 21 December 1933; the first Chairman was Charles Waghorne of Insulators Limited. It is the longest-established plastics ...
*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
The Building Research Establishment (BRE) is a centre of building science in the United Kingdom, owned by charitable organisation the BRE Trust. It is a former UK government national laboratory that was privatised in 1997. BRE provides resear ...
*BSI British Standards Institute
The British Standards Institution (BSI) is the Standards organization, national standards body of the United Kingdom. BSI produces technical standards on a wide range of products and services and also supplies certification and standards-relat ...
** 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
Best Value was government policy in the United Kingdom affecting the provision of public services in England and Wales. In Wales, Best Value is known as the Wales Programme for Improvement. A statutory duty of Best Value applies in Scotland.Audi ...
*BVPP Best Value Performance Plan
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*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
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is a UK business organisation, which in total claims to speak for 190,000 businesses, this is made up of around 1,500 direct members and 188,500 non-members. The non members are represented through the 1 ...
*CBM Compressed Biomethane
*CCGT Combined cycle gas turbine
A combined cycle power plant is an assembly of heat engines that work in tandem from the same source of heat, converting it into mechanical energy. On land, when used to make electricity the most common type is called a combined cycle gas turb ...
*CCHP Combined cooling, heating and power
*CCL Climate Change Levy
The Climate Change Levy (CCL) is a tax on energy delivered to non-domestic users in the United Kingdom.
Scope and purpose
Introduced on 1 April 2001 under the Finance Act 2000, it was forecast to cut annual emissions by 2.5 million tonnes ...
*CCT Compulsory Competitive Tendering
*C&D Construction
Construction is a general term meaning the art and science to form objects, systems, or organizations,"Construction" def. 1.a. 1.b. and 1.c. ''Oxford English Dictionary'' Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) Oxford University Press 2009 and com ...
and demolition
Demolition (also known as razing, cartage, and wrecking) is the science and engineering in safely and efficiently tearing down of buildings and other artificial structures. Demolition contrasts with deconstruction, which involves taking a ...
(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
The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body ...
*CEMP Construction Environmental Management Plan
*CEN Comite Europeen de Normalisation (European Committee for Standardization)
*CEWEP Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants
*CFC Chlorofluorocarbon
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) are fully or partly halogenated hydrocarbons that contain carbon (C), hydrogen (H), chlorine (Cl), and fluorine (F), produced as volatile derivatives of methane, ethane, and prop ...
*CfSH Code for Sustainable Homes The Code for Sustainable Homes was an environmental assessment method for rating and certifying the performance of new homes in United Kingdom. First introduced in 2006, it is a national standard for use in the design and construction of new homes ...
*CHEM Container Handling Equipment Manufacturers
*CHIP Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations
*CHP Combined heat and power
Cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) is the use of a heat engine or power station to generate electricity and useful heat at the same time.
Cogeneration is a more efficient use of fuel or heat, because otherwise- wasted heat from elect ...
*CHPA Combined Heat and Power Association
*C&I Commercial
Commercial may refer to:
* a dose of advertising conveyed through media (such as - for example - radio or television)
** Radio advertisement
** Television advertisement
* (adjective for:) commerce, a system of voluntary exchange of products and s ...
and industrial
Industrial may refer to:
Industry
* Industrial archaeology, the study of the history of the industry
* Industrial engineering, engineering dealing with the optimization of complex industrial processes or systems
* Industrial city, a city dominate ...
(e.g. C&I waste)
*CIPFA Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) is a professional institute for accountants working in the public services, national audit agencies, in major accountancy firms, and in other bodies where public money needs to be m ...
*CIWEM Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
*CIWM Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) is a professional body for the waste management industry in the United Kingdom and other countries. Based in Northampton, it has ten regional centres throughout England, Scotland, Wales, North ...
*CIWMB California Integrated Waste Management Board
The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (also known as CalRecycle) is a branch of the California Environmental Protection Agency that oversees the state's waste management, recycling, and waste reduction programs. CalRecycle ...
*CL:AIRE Contaminated Land: Application In Real Environmentsbr>CLAIRE
*CLEA Contaminated Land Exposure Assessment
*CLO Compost-like output
*CLR Contaminated Land Register
*CNEA Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act
*COD Chemical oxygen demand
In environmental chemistry, the chemical oxygen demand (COD) is an indicative measure of the amount of oxygen that can be consumed by reactions in a measured solution. It is commonly expressed in mass of oxygen consumed over volume of solution whic ...
or certificate of destruction
*COMAH Control of Major Accident Hazards
*COPA Control of Pollution Act
Control may refer to:
Basic meanings Economics and business
* Control (management), an element of management
* Control, an element of management accounting
* Comptroller (or controller), a senior financial officer in an organization
* Controlling ...
*COPLR Code of Practice for Litter and Refuse
*CoRWM Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly. A committee is not itself considered to be a form of assembly. Usually, the assembly sends matters into a committee as a way to explore them more ...
*COSHH Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
*CoTC Certificate of Technical Competence
Certificate may refer to:
* Birth certificate
* Marriage certificate
* Death certificate
* Gift certificate
* Certificate of authenticity, a document or seal certifying the authenticity of something
* Certificate of deposit, or CD, a financial pro ...
*CPA Comprehensive Performance Assessment
*CRC CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (the CRC, formerly the Carbon Reduction Commitment) was a mandatory carbon emissions reduction scheme in the United Kingdom which applied to large energy-intensive organisations in the public and private sectors. ...
(formerly the Carbon Reduction Commitment)
*CRC Community recycling centre
*CRN Community Recycling Network
*CRNS Community Recycling Network for Scotland
*CRR Campaign for Real Recycling
Waste management laws govern the transport, treatment, storage, and disposal of all manner of waste, including municipal solid waste, hazardous waste, and radioactive waste, nuclear waste, among list of waste types, many other types. Waste laws ar ...
*CRT Cathode-ray tube
A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen. The images may represent electrical waveforms (oscilloscope), pictur ...
*CSER Corporate, social and environmental responsibilities
*CSR Corporate social responsibility
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a form of international private business self-regulation which aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropic, activist, or charitable nature by engaging in or supporting volunteering or ethicall ...
*CSTR Continuous stirred-tank reactor
The continuous stirred-tank reactor (CSTR), also known as vat- or backmix reactor, mixed flow reactor (MFR), or a continuous-''flow'' stirred-tank reactor (C''F''STR), is a common model for a chemical reactor in chemical engineering and environmen ...
*CV Calorific value
The heating value (or energy value or calorific value) of a substance, usually a fuel or food (see food energy), is the amount of heat released during the combustion of a specified amount of it.
The ''calorific value'' is the total energy rele ...
*CWMRE Creating Welsh Markets for Recyclates
Creation may refer to:
Religion
*''Creatio ex nihilo'', the concept that matter was created by God out of nothing
* Creation myth, a religious story of the origin of the world and how people first came to inhabit it
* Creationism, the belief tha ...
*CWP Cheshire Waste Partnership
*CWR Controlled Waste Regulations
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*DAC Dense Asphaltic Concrete
*DBFO Design Build Finance and Operate
*DCF Designated Collection Facility
*DCLG Department for Communities and Local Government
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), formerly the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for housing, communities, local government ...
*DECC Department of Energy and Climate Change
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom created on 3 October 2008, by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to take over some of the functions related to energy of the Department for Busin ...
*DECLG Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage ( ga, An Roinn Tithíochta, Rialtais Áitiúil agus Oidhreachta) is a department of the Government of Ireland. It is led by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage who is ...
(Ireland)
*DEFRA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the United K ...
*DGXI Directorate General of the European Commission responsible for the Environment
*DLGE Department of Local Government and the Environment
{{Politics of the Isle of Man
In the Isle of Man, the Department of Local Government and the Environment ( gv, Rheynn Reiltys Ynnydagh as y Çhymmyltaght) or DLGE/DoLGE was responsible for the environment, social housing policy, local authorities, ...
(Isle of Man)
*DMR Dry Mixed Recyclables
*DoC Duty of Care
In tort law, a duty of care is a legal obligation that is imposed on an individual, requiring adherence to a standard of reasonable care while performing any acts that could foreseeably harm others. It is the first element that must be establis ...
*DOENI Department for the Environment (Northern Ireland)
*DRI Dynamic Respiration Index
*DSD Duales System Deutschland
*DSO Direct Service Organisation
A direct service organisation or direct labour organisation (DSO or DLO) is a business unit of a United Kingdom local authority or housing association which undertakes work specified by the Local Government Act 1988http://www.communities.gov.uk/do ...
*DTI Department of Trade and Industry
*DTLR Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
The Secretary of State for Transport, also referred to as the transport secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for the policies of the Department for Transport. The incumbent is ...
*DTS Distributor Takeback Scheme
A distributor is an enclosed rotating switch used in spark-ignition internal combustion engines that have mechanically timed ignition. The distributor's main function is to route high voltage current from the ignition coil to the spark plugs ...
*DWP Dorset Waste Partnership
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*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
The European Environment Agency (EEA) is the agency of the European Union (EU) which provides independent information on the environment.
Definition
The European Environment Agency (EEA) is the agency of the European Union (EU) which provides i ...
*EfW Energy-from-Waste
*EGSB Expanded Granular Sludge Bed
*EHO Environmental health officer
Environmental Health Officers (also known as Public Health Inspectors or Environmental Health Practitioners) are responsible for carrying out measures for protecting public health, including administering and enforcing legislation related to enviro ...
*EHS Environment & Heritage Service (Northern Ireland)
*EIA Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental Impact assessment (EIA) is the assessment of the environmental consequences of a plan, policy, program, or actual projects prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action. In this context, the term "environmental imp ...
*EIC Environmental Industries Commission
A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scale f ...
*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
The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is a voluntary environmental management instrument, which was developed in 1993 by the European Commission. It enables organizations to assess, manage and continuously improve their environmental perform ...
*EMS Environmental Management System
An environmental management system (EMS) is "a system and database which integrates procedures and processes for training of personnel, monitoring, summarizing, and reporting of specialized environmental performance information to internal and exte ...
*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
A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scale f ...
*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
Polystyrene (PS) is a synthetic polymer made from monomers of the aromatic hydrocarbon styrene. Polystyrene can be solid or foamed. General-purpose polystyrene is clear, hard, and brittle. It is an inexpensive resin per unit weight. It is a ...
*ERFO European Recovered Fuels Organisation
*ERI Energy Recovery Incineration
*ES Environmental Statement
*ESA Environmental Services Association
The Environmental Services Association (ESA) is a professional organisation in the United Kingdom representing the UK's waste and secondary resources industry. The ESA's members include the major waste management companies in the UK and is open ...
*ESWET European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology
*ETBC Electronics TakeBack Coalition
The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using Electronic component, electronic devices. Electronics uses Passivity (engineering), active devices ...
*ETRMA European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers’ Association
*ETS Emissions Trading Scheme
Emissions trading is a market-based approach to controlling pollution by providing economic incentives for reducing the emissions of pollutants. The concept is also known as cap and trade (CAT) or emissions trading scheme (ETS). Carbon emission t ...
*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
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*FABRA Foodchain & Biomass Renewables Association
*FAPP Fit And Proper Person
*FBA Furnace Bottom Ash
*FCC Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas
Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, S.A. (), or FCC, is a Spanish construction company based in Barcelona. Until November 2014, over 50 percent of the shares were owned by a company controlled by the daughter of its founder, Esther Koplo ...
*FEAD Fédération Européenne des Activités du Déchet et de l’Environnement European Federation of Waste Management and Environmental Services
*FEL Front End Loader
Front End Loader are an Australian rock band which formed in December 1991 with founding mainstays, Bowden Campbell on guitar and vocals; Davis Claymore on lead vocals and guitar; Richard Corey on bass guitar; and Peter Kostic on drums. Front ...
*FGT Flue Gas Treatment
*FOE Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an international network of environmental organizations in 73 countries. The organization was founded in 1969 in San Francisco by David Brower, Donald Aitken and Gary Soucie after Brower's split with ...
*FORWARRD Forum for Waste and Resource Research and Development
*FPN Fixed Penalty Notice
In the United Kingdom, a fixed penalty notice (FPN) is a notice giving an individual the opportunity to be made immune from prosecution for an alleged criminal offence in exchange for a fee. Fixed penalty notices were introduced in Britain in the ...
*Frag Fragmentised Waste (e.g. from the vehicle recycling industry)
*FTE Full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent (FTE), or whole time equivalent (WTE), is a unit that indicates the workload of an employee, employed person (or student) in a way that makes workloads or class loads comparable across various contexts. FTE is often used to me ...
*FWD Food Waste Disposer
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*GAIA Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
*GCV Gross Calorific Value
*GHG Greenhouse Gas
A greenhouse gas (GHG or GhG) is a gas that Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), absorbs and Emission (electromagnetic radiation), emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range, causing the greenhouse effect. The primary greenhouse ...
*GIB Green Investment Bank
Green Investment Group Limited (GIG) is a specialist in green infrastructure principal investment, project delivery and the management of portfolio assets, and related services.
The business was launched initially by the UK government in 2012 a ...
*GIS Geographical Information System
A geographic information system (GIS) is a type of database containing geographic data (that is, descriptions of phenomena for which location is relevant), combined with software tools for managing, analyzing, and visualizing those data. In a ...
*GLA Greater London Authority
The Greater London Authority (GLA), colloquially known by the metonym "City Hall", is the devolved regional governance body of Greater London. It consists of two political branches: the executive Mayoralty (currently led by Sadiq Khan) and the ...
*GMWDA Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority
The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority (GMWDA) was England’s largest waste disposal authority, responsible for the management and disposal of municipal waste from Greater Manchester. It dealt with 1.1 million tonnes of waste produced ...
*GWP Global Warming Potential
Global warming potential (GWP) is the heat absorbed by any greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, as a multiple of the heat that would be absorbed by the same mass of carbon dioxide (). GWP is 1 for . For other gases it depends on the gas and the time f ...
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*HCRW Healthcare Risk Waste
*HCW Healthcare Waste
*HDPE High Density Polyethylene
High-density polyethylene (HDPE) or polyethylene high-density (PEHD) is a thermoplastic polymer produced from the monomer ethylene. It is sometimes called "alkathene" or "polythene" when used for HDPE pipes. With a high strength-to-density ratio, ...
*HFC Hydrofluorocarbon
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are man-made organic compounds that contain fluorine and hydrogen atoms, and are the most common type of organofluorine compounds. Most are gases at room temperature and pressure. They are frequently used in air condi ...
*HHW Household Hazardous Waste
Household hazardous waste (HHW) was a term coined by Dave Galvin from Seattle, Washington in 1982 as part of the fulfillment of a US EPA grant. This new term was reflective of the recent passage of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of ...
*HIPS High Impact Polystyrene
Polystyrene (PS) is a synthetic polymer made from monomers of the aromatic hydrocarbon styrene. Polystyrene can be solid or foamed. General-purpose polystyrene is clear, hard, and brittle. It is an inexpensive resin per unit weight. It is a ...
*HLW High Level Waste
High-level waste (HLW) is a type of nuclear waste created by the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. It exists in two main forms:
* First and second cycle raffinate and other waste streams created by nuclear reprocessing.
* Waste formed by vit ...
*HSC Health and Safety Commission
The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) was a United Kingdom non-departmental public body. The HSC was created by the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (HSWA). It was formally established on 31 July 1974. The Commission consisted of a chairm ...
*HSE Health & Safety Executive
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is a UK government agency responsible for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare, and for research into occupational risks in Great Britain. It is a non-depar ...
*HTI High Temperature Incineration
*HW Household waste
Municipal solid waste (MSW), commonly known as trash or garbage in the United States and rubbish in Britain, is a waste type consisting of everyday items that are discarded by the public. "Garbage" can also refer specifically to food waste, a ...
*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
Incinerator bottom ash (IBA) is a form of ash produced in incineration facilities. This material is discharged from the moving grate of municipal solid waste incinerators. Once IBA is processed by removing contaminants, it can be used as an aggreg ...
*IBAA Incinerator Bottom Ash Aggregate
*ICE Institution of Civil Engineers
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a charitable body in the United Kingdom. Based in London, ICE has over 92,000 members, of whom three-quarters are located in the UK, whi ...
*ICER Industry Council for Electronic Equipment Recycling
*ICW International Catering Waste (catering waste from means of transport operating internationally)
*IED Industrial Emissions Directive
The Industrial Emissions Directive (Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control)) is a European Union directive which commits Europea ...
*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
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) is a United States-based private, non-profit trade association representing more than 1,300 private and public for-profit companies – ranging from small, family-owned businesses to multi-nationa ...
*ISWA International Solid Waste Association
The International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) is a non-governmental, independent and non-profit association by statutes and follows the mission statement to promote and develop professional waste management worldwide as a contribution to sust ...
*IVC In-vessel Composting In-vessel composting generally describes a group of methods that confine the composting materials within a building, container, or vessel. In-vessel composting systems can consist of metal or plastic tanks or concrete bunkers in which air flow and ...
*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
Kerbside collection American and British English spelling differences#Miscellaneous spelling differences, or curbside collection is a service provided to households, typically in urban and suburban areas, of collecting and disposing of Municipal ...
L
*LA Local Authority
Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-loca ...
*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
A landfill site, also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump, or dumping ground, is a site for the disposal of waste materials. Landfill is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of the waste ...
*LASU Local Authority Support Unit
*LATS Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme
The Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme, LATS, is an initiative by the UK government, through DEFRA to help reduce the amount of biodegradable municipal waste (BMW) sent to landfill.
How does it work?
The Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003 pro ...
*LAWAS Local Authority Waste Arisings Survey
*LAWDC Local Authority Waste Disposal Company
*LCA Life Cycle Analysis
Life cycle assessment or LCA (also known as life cycle analysis) is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts associated with all the stages of the life cycle of a commercial product, process, or service. For instance, in the case ...
/Assessment
*LCF Landfill Communities Fund
*LCW Low Carbon Waste
*LCPD Large Combustion Plant Directive
The Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD, 2001/80/EC) was a European Union directive which required member states of the European Union to legislatively limit flue gas emissions from combustion plant having thermal capacity of 50 MW or grea ...
*LDPE Low Density Polyethylene
Low-density polyethylene (LDPE) is a thermoplastic made from the monomer ethylene. It was the first grade of polyethylene, produced in 1933 by Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) using a high pressure process via free radical polymerization. Its ...
*LEA Local Enforcement Agency
*LEL Lower Explosive Limit
*LFD Landfill Directive
The Landfill Directive, more formally Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 is a European Union directive that regulates waste management of landfills in the European Union. It was implemented by its Member States by 16 July 2001.
The D ...
*LFG Landfill Gas
Landfill gas is a mix of different gases created by the action of microorganisms within a landfill as they decompose organic waste, including for example, food waste and paper waste. Landfill gas is approximately forty to sixty percent methane, ...
*LFT Landfill Tax
*LGA Local Government Association
The Local Government Association (LGA) is the national membership body for local authorities. Its core membership is made up of 339 English councils and the 22 Welsh councils through the Welsh Local Government Association.
The LGA is p ...
*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
Low-level waste (LLW) or Low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) is nuclear waste that does not fit into the categorical definitions for intermediate-level waste (ILW), high-level waste (HLW), spent nuclear fuel (SNF), transuranic waste (TRU), or ce ...
*LOLER Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998
The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) are set of regulations created under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 which came into force in Great Britain on 5 December 1998 and replaced a number of other piece ...
*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
A mechanical biological treatment (MBT) system is a type of waste processing facility that combines a sorting facility with a form of biological treatment such as composting or anaerobic digestion. MBT plants are designed to process mixed househo ...
*MCA Municipal Collection Authority
*MCERTS Monitoring Certification Scheme
Monitoring may refer to:
Science and technology Biology and healthcare
* Monitoring (medicine), the observation of a disease, condition or one or several medical parameters over time
* Baby monitoring
* Biomonitoring, of toxic chemical compounds, ...
*MCDA Multi Criteria Decision Analysis
*MDC Metropolitan District Council
A metropolitan borough (or metropolitan district) is a type of local government district in England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, metropolitan boroughs are defined in English law as metropolitan districts within metropolit ...
*MDR Mixed Dry Recyclables
*MEL Maximum Exposure Limit
*MHSWR Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations
*MHT Mechanical Heat Treatment
Mechanical heat treatment (MHT) is an alternative waste treatment technology. This technology is also commonly termed autoclaving. MHT involves a mechanical sorting or pre-processing stage with technology often found in a material recovery facilit ...
*MMRCV Multi-Modal Refuse Collection Vehicle
*MREC Materials Recovery and Energy Centre
*MRF Materials Recovery Facility
A materials recovery facility, materials reclamation facility, materials recycling facility or Multi re-use facility (MRF, pronounced "murf") is a specialized plant that receives, separates and prepares recyclable materials for marketing to end-u ...
(or Recycling or Factory)
*MRWA Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority formerly known as Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority
*MSW Municipal Solid Waste
Municipal solid waste (MSW), commonly known as trash or garbage in the United States and rubbish in Britain, is a waste type consisting of everyday items that are discarded by the public. "Garbage" can also refer specifically to food 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 The Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation (NFFO) refers to a collection of orders requiring the electricity distribution network operators in England and Wales to purchase electricity from the nuclear power and renewable energy sectors. Similar mechanisms oper ...
*NGG New Generation Group (CIWM programme renamed New Member Network)
*NGO Non-Governmental Organisation
A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization), spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from g ...
*NHHWF National Household Hazardous Waste Forum
*NIEA Northern Ireland Environment Agency
The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) is an executive agency within the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA). It is responsible for conservation of Northern Ireland's environment and natural heritage.
Origi ...
*NIMBY Not In My Back-Yard
*NISP National Industrial Symbiosis Programme
National may refer to:
Common uses
* Nation or country
** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen
Places in the United States
* National, Maryland, c ...
*NLWA North London Waste Authority
The North London Waste Authority (NLWA) is a waste disposal authority with responsibility for disposal of waste in the North London boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington, and Waltham Forest.
History
The NLWA wa ...
*NOF New Opportunities Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund, legally named the Big Lottery Fund, is a non-departmental public body responsible for distributing funds raised by the National Lottery for "good causes". Since 2004 it has awarded over £9 billion to ...
*NPWD National Packaging Waste Database
*NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with protecting public health and safety related to nuclear energy. Established by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, the NRC began operat ...
(US)
*NSIP Nationally significant infrastructure project
Nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIP) are major infrastructure developments in England and Wales that bypass normal local planning requirements. These include proposals for power plants, large renewable energy projects, new airp ...
*NVQ National Vocational Qualification
National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) are practical work-based awards in England, Wales and Northern Ireland that are achieved through assessment and training. The regulatory framework supporting NVQs was withdrawn in 2015 and replaced by the ...
*NWMRF National Waste Minimisation & Recycling Fund
*NWP National Waste Plan or Norfolk Waste Partnership
*NWPA Nuclear Waste Policy Act
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 is a United States federal law which established a comprehensive national program for the safe, permanent disposal of highly radioactive wastes.
* The US Congress amended the act in 1987 to designate Yucca Mou ...
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
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; french: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, ''OCDE'') is an intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries ...
*OFGEM Office of Gas and Electricity Markets
, type = Non-ministerial government department
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, logo = Ofgem logo.svg
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(Great Britain)
*OFWAT Office of Water Services (England and Wales)
*OJEU Official Journal of the European Union
An official is someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless whether it carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority, (either their own or that of their s ...
*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 A Publicly Available Specification or PAS is a standardization document that closely resembles a formal standard in structure and format but which has a different development model. The objective of a Publicly Available Specification is to speed up ...
*PAYT Pay As You Throw
Pay as you throw (PAYT) (also called trash metering, unit pricing, variable rate pricing, or user-pay) is a usage-pricing model for disposing of municipal solid waste. Users are charged a rate based on how much waste they present for collection to ...
*PCB Polychlorinated Biphenyl
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are highly carcinogenic chemical compounds, formerly used in industrial and consumer products, whose production was banned in the United States by the Toxic Substances Control Act in 1979 and internationally by t ...
*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
Polyethylene terephthalate (or poly(ethylene terephthalate), PET, PETE, or the obsolete PETP or PET-P), is the most common thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family and is used in fibres for clothing, containers for liquids and foods ...
*PFI Private Finance Initiative
The private finance initiative (PFI) was a United Kingdom government procurement policy aimed at creating "public–private partnerships" (PPPs) where private firms are contracted to complete and manage public projects. Initially launched in 199 ...
*PIU Performance and Innovation Unit
*PM Particulate Matter, airborne (e.g. PM 10 ~ particles under 10 micrometres)
*PP Polypropylene
Polypropylene (PP), also known as polypropene, is a thermoplastic polymer used in a wide variety of applications. It is produced via chain-growth polymerization from the monomer propylene.
Polypropylene
belongs to the group of polyolefins and ...
*PP Proximity Principle Within the realm of social psychology, the proximity principle accounts for the tendency for individuals to form interpersonal relations with those who are close by. Theodore Newcomb first documented this effect through his study of the acquaintanc ...
*PPC Pollution Prevention and Control Act
*PPE Personal Protective Equipment
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer's body from injury or infection. The hazards addressed by protective equipment include physical, elec ...
*PPG Planning Policy Guidance Notes In the United Kingdom, Planning Policy Guidance Notes (PPG) were statements of the Government's national policy and principles towards certain aspects of the town planning framework.
These national policy documents were originally known as PPGs a ...
(e.g. PPG 10 for waste management)
*PPP Public Private Partnership
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkei ...
or Polluter-pays principle
In environmental law, the polluter pays principle is enacted to make the party responsible for producing pollution responsible for paying for the damage done to the natural environment. It is regarded as a regional custom because of the strong sup ...
*PPS Planning Policy Statement Planning Policy Statements (PPS) were UK government statements of national policy and principles towards certain aspects of the town planning framework. In recent years they only applied to England. However, they still exist within the Northern Ir ...
*PR Producer Responsibility
*PRF Plastics Reclamation Facility
*PRN Packaging Recovery Note
*PS Polystyrene
Polystyrene (PS) is a synthetic polymer made from monomers of the aromatic hydrocarbon styrene. Polystyrene can be solid or foamed. General-purpose polystyrene is clear, hard, and brittle. It is an inexpensive resin per unit weight. It is a ...
*PSA Public Service Agreement
Public service agreements (PSAs) detailed the aims and objectives of UK government departments for a three-year period. PSAs were abolished in June 2010 by the Coalition Government.
Such agreements also "describe how targets will be achieved and ...
*PUWER Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations
*PVB Polyvinyl Butyral
Polyvinyl butyral (or PVB) is a resin mostly used for applications that require strong binding, optical clarity, adhesion to many surfaces, toughness and flexibility. It is prepared from polyvinyl alcohol by reaction with butyraldehyde. The majo ...
*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
Waste hierarchy is a tool used in the evaluation of processes that protect the environment alongside resource and energy consumption from most favourable to least favourable actions. The hierarchy establishes preferred program priorities bas ...
*RAD Rotary Aerobic Digestion
*RAG Recycling Advisory Group, Scotland
*RCE Regional Centre of Excellence
*RCEP Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution in the United Kingdom was created under Royal Warrant in 1970 to advise the Queen, Government, Parliament and the public on environmental issues. It was closed on 1 April 2011, as part of the Coali ...
*RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), enacted in 1976, is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.United States. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. , , ''et seq ...
(US)
*RCV Refuse Collection Vehicle
*RDA Regional Development Agency (all abolished in England on 31 March 2012)
*RDF Refuse Derived Fuel
Refuse-derived fuel (RDF) is a fuel produced from various types of waste such as municipal solid waste (MSW), industrial waste or commercial waste.
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development provides a definition:
''"Selected waste ...
*REACH
*RECAP Recycling in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. The recovery of energy from waste materials is often included in this concept. The recyclability of a material depends on its ability to reacquire the p ...
*RECOUP Recycling Of Used Plastics
*REL Rear End Loader
*REMADE Recycled Market Development
*REPAC Regional Environmental Protection Advisory Committee
*RFID Radio Frequency Identification
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder, a radio receiver and transmitter. When triggered by an electromag ...
*RIA Regulatory Impact Assessment
*RID
*RIDDOR Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995
*RGN Regulatory Guidance Note
*RMA U.S. Rubber Manufacturers Association
The U.S. Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA), established in 1915 as the Rubber Club of America, is a national trade and advocacy group of U.S. rubber tire manufacturers. The Rubber Manufacturers Association formed the Tire Industry Safety Coun ...
*RO Renewables Obligation
The Renewables Obligation (RO) is designed to encourage generation of electricity from eligible renewable sources in the United Kingdom. It was introduced in England and Wales and in a different form (the Renewables Obligation (Scotland)) in Scot ...
*ROC Renewables Obligation Certificates
The Renewables Obligation (RO) is designed to encourage generation of electricity from eligible renewable sources in the United Kingdom. It was introduced in England and Wales and in a different form (the Renewables Obligation (Scotland)) in Scot ...
*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
A reverse vending machine (RVM) is a machine that allows a person to insert a used or empty glass bottle, plastic bottle, or aluminum can in exchange for a reward. After inserting the recyclable item, it is then compacted, sorted, and analyzed acc ...
*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
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA; gd, Buidheann Dìon Àrainneachd na h-Alba) is Scotland's Environmental regulation, environmental regulator and national flood forecasting, flood warning and strategic flood risk management au ...
*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
The Society for the Environment (SocEnv) is an umbrella body for environmental organisations in the UK. Its primary function is the licensing of its member institutions to confer chartered status on sustainability and environmental professional ...
*SRB Single Regeneration Budget
Single may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Single (music), a song release
Songs
* "Single" (Natasha Bedingfield song), 2004
* "Single" (New Kids on the Block and Ne-Yo song), 2008
* "Single" (William Wei song), 2016
* "Single", by ...
*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
Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.
This includes the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste, together with monitorin ...
*SWMA Strategic Waste Management Assessment
*SWMP Site Waste Management Plan
*SWP Shropshire Waste Partnership
Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic Counties of England, county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the we ...
or Somerset Waste Partnership or Surrey Waste Partnership
T
*TAC Technical Adaptation Committee
*TAD Thermophilic Aerobic Digestion
*TCLP Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure
Toxicity characteristic leaching procedure (TCLP) is a soil sample extraction method for chemical analysis employed as an analytical method to simulate leaching through a landfill. The testing methodology is used to determine if a waste is chara ...
*TAN Technical Advice Note (Wales)
*TEEP Technically, Environmentally and Economically Practicable
*TEF Toxic Equivalent Factor
*TFS Transfrontier Shipment
*THP Thermal hydrolysis
Thermal hydrolysis is a process used for treating industrial waste, municipal solid waste and sewage sludge.
Description
Thermal hydrolysis is a two-stage process combining high-pressure boiling of waste or sludge followed by a rapid decompressio ...
*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
Thermal treatment is any waste treatment technology that involves high temperatures in the processing of the waste feedstock. Commonly this involves the combustion of waste materials.
Systems that are generally considered to be thermal treatment ...
*TUPE Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 known colloquially as TUPE and pronounced , are the United Kingdom's implementation of the European Union Transfer of Undertakings Directive. It is an important part of UK lab ...
U
*UA Unitary Authority
A unitary authority is a local authority responsible for all local government functions within its area or performing additional functions that elsewhere are usually performed by a higher level of sub-national government or the national governmen ...
*UASB Upflow anaerobic sludge blanket digestion
Upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) technology, normally referred to as UASB reactor, is a form of anaerobic digester that is used for wastewater treatment.
The UASB reactor is a methanogenic (methane-producing) digester that evolved from the ...
*UBC Used Beverage Can
A drink can (or beverage can) is a metal container designed to hold a fixed portion of liquid such as carbonated soft drinks, alcoholic drinks, fruit juices, teas, herbal teas, energy drinks, etc. Drink cans are made of aluminum (75% of ...
*UDP Unitary Development Plan
In United Kingdom planning law, a unitary development plan (UDP) is a development plan prepared by a metropolitan district, London Borough or some unitary local authorities.
Background
UDPs contains policies equivalent to those in both a struct ...
*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
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system. It was established by Maurice Strong, its first director, after the United Nations Conference on th ...
*UROC United Resource Operators Confederation
V
*VCU Vertical Composting Units
*VLLW Very Low Level Waste
*VOC Volatile Organic Compound
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are organic compounds that have a high vapour pressure at room temperature. High vapor pressure correlates with a low boiling point, which relates to the number of the sample's molecules in the surrounding air, a ...
*VRQ Vocationally Related Qualification
W
*WAC Waste Acceptance Criteria
*WAG Welsh Assembly Government
Welsh may refer to:
Related to Wales
* Welsh, referring or related to Wales
* Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales
* Welsh people
People
* Welsh (surname)
* Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peop ...
*WAMITAB Waste Management Industry Training & Advisory Board
Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use. A by-product, by contrast is a joint product of relatively minor economic value. A waste prod ...
*WARRAG Waste And Resources Research Advisory Group
*WCA Waste Collection Authority A waste collection authority (WCA) is a local authority in the UK charged with the collection of municipal waste. There are 376 WCAs in England and Wales who are responsible for collecting waste from nearly 22 million homes and some businesses. ...
*WDA Waste Disposal Authority Waste disposal authorities (WDA) were established in the United Kingdom following the Environmental Protection Act 1990. WDAs are in charge of the use of funds from Council Tax to facilitate the disposal of municipal waste. WDAs must manage waste ...
*WDF WasteDataFlow (web-based system for municipal waste data reporting by UK local authorities)
*WEEE Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
Electronic waste or e-waste describes discarded electrical or electronic devices. Used electronics which are destined for refurbishment, reuse, resale, salvage recycling through material recovery, or disposal are also considered e-waste. Informa ...
*WET Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003
The Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003 (c 33) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The white paper "Waste Strategy 2000: England and Wales" ( Cm 4693) is a precursor of this Act.
Part 1 - Waste
This Part was intended to give ef ...
*WFD Waste Framework Directive
*WID Waste Incineration Directive
The Waste Incineration Directive, more formally Directive 2000/76/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
of 4 December 2000 on the incineration of waste (OJ L332, P91 – 111), was a Directive issued by the European Union and relates to ...
*WIP Waste Implementation Programme The Waste Implementation Programme (WIP) is the UK Government's response to the package of strategic measures recommended by the Strategy Unit "Waste Not, Want Not" report published in 2002. The WIP is the route map of the Department for Environmen ...
*WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben and the Schacht Asse II salt mine) licensed to store transuranic radioactive waste for 10,00 ...
*WISARD Waste Integrated Systems Assessment for Recovery and Disposal
*WLP Waste Local Plan
*WLWA West London Waste Authority
The West London Waste Authority is the statutory body responsible for waste disposal in the London boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames. The authority was formed in 1986, taking over functions previ ...
*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
FCC Environment (UK) Limited is a waste management company headquartered in Northampton, United Kingdom and a wholly owned subsidiary of Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas. It was formed in May 2012 through the merger and rebranding of Focsa ...
*WRWA Western Riverside Waste Authority
Greater London has a number of waste disposal authorities, responsible for waste collection and disposal. Prior to the abolition of the Greater London Council in 1986, it was the waste authority for Greater London.
Joint authorities
There are ...
*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
Waste-to-energy (WtE) or energy-from-waste (EfW) is the process of generating energy in the form of electricity and/or heat from the primary treatment of waste, or the processing of waste into a fuel source. WtE is a form of energy recovery. Mo ...
*WTF Waste Transfer Facility
*WTN Waste Transfer Note
The Environmental Protection Act 1990 ( initialism: EPA) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that defines, within England and Wales and Scotland, the fundamental structure and authority for waste management and control of emission ...
X
*XRF X-Ray Fluorescence
X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is the emission of characteristic "secondary" (or fluorescent) X-rays from a material that has been excited by being bombarded with high-energy X-rays or gamma rays. The phenomenon is widely used for elemental analysis ...
(i.e. checking for the presence of metals in waste plastics)
Y
*YNYWMP York and North Yorkshire Waste Management Partnership
Z
*ZWS Zero Waste Scotland
See also
*Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) is a professional body for the waste management industry in the United Kingdom and other countries. Based in Northampton, it has ten regional centres throughout England, Scotland, Wales, North ...
* List of waste management concepts
References
External links
Waste management acronyms
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Waste management acronyms
Waste Management
Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.
This includes the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste, together with monitoring ...
Waste
Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use. A by-product, by contrast is a joint product of relatively minor economic value. A waste prod ...