| AWWW | - | | A Way
With Waste: A draft waste strategy for England and Wales, London, DETR,
1999 |
| BATNEEC | - | | Best
Available Techniques Not Entailing Excessive Cost |
| Bioavailability | - | | The
degree to which contaminants are taken up by plants, animals or humans who are
exposed to them |
| BPEO | - | | Best
Practicable Environmental Option |
| CA
sites | - | | Community Amenity sites
[where people may take their household refuse] |
| C&D
waste | - | | Construction and Demolition
waste |
| CAIR | - | | Campaign
Against the Incineration of Refuse (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) |
| CFCs | - | | Chlorofluorocarbons |
| CHP | - | | "Combined
Heat and Power" plant |
| CHP | - | | Contract
Heat and Power: A company responsible for the Byker Plant in the
1990s |
| COSHH | - | | Control
of Substances Hazardous to Health [= UK legal health regulations] |
| CRN | - | | Community
Recycling Network (UK) |
| DETR | - | | Department
for Environment, Transport and the Regions (UK) |
| Dioxins | - | | A
toxic, carcinogenic family of unintentional byproducts of incineration of
chlorine-containing materials, e.g.PVC |
| DLO | - | | Direct
Labour Organisation |
| DSOs | - | | Direct
service organisations |
| EfW | - | | Energy from
Waste Association |
| EIA | - | | Environmental
Impact Assessment |
| EIC | - | | Environment
Industries Commission (UK) |
| EIF | - | | Environmental
Industries Federation [a group based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK] |
| ELVs | - | | Emission
limit values |
| ELVs
(2) | - | | End-of-life vehicles |
| EPA | - | | Environmental
protection Agency (USA) |
| EPR | - | | Extended
Producer Responsibility |
| ESRC | - | | Economic
and Social research Council (UK) |
| GHG | - | | Greenhouse
gases [=carbon dioxide; methane; perfluorocarbons; nitrous oxide] |
| GRRN | - | | GrassRoots
Recycling Network [US advocate for zero waste, 1996->] |
| HMIP | - | | Her
Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution=now part of the Environment Agency
(UK) |
| IPC | - | | Integrated
Pollution Control |
| IPCS | - | | International
Programme on Chemical Safety |
| IUGR | - | | Intrauterine
growth retardation |
| LCA | - | | Life cycle
analysis |
| LPAC | - | | London
Planning Body |
| MBT | - | | Mechanical
Biological Process |
| MRFs | - | | Materials
recycling facilities |
| MSW | - | | Municipal
solid waste |
| NECs | - | | National
emission ceilings |
| NFDP | - | | Not-for-distributed-profit |
| NFFO | - | | Non Fossil
Fuel Obligation (UK) |
| NOAEL | - | | No
Adverse Effect Level |
| Organo-halogens | - | | A
class of chemicals made from carbon and chlorine, bromine etc. |
| PAHs | - | | Polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons |
| PAMs | - | | "Printed
advertising materials" |
| PC | - | | process
contribution |
| PCBs | - | | Polychlorinated
biphenyls |
| PCDD | - | | polychloro-dibenzodioxins |
| PCDFs | - | | Polychloro-dibenzodioxins
and furans |
| PCV | - | | Pedestrian
controlled vehicle [a small electric cart used for collecting waste, e.g. in
Haringey] |
| PET | - | | Polyethylene
teraphthalate |
| POPs | - | | Persistant
Organic Pollutants |
| PRNs | - | | Packaging
recovery notes [a UK system to indicate the delivery of a certain weight of
secondary material to processors for recycling or recovery] |
| PVC | - | | Polyvinyl
chloride [a chlorine-containing plastic] |
| REIA | - | | Regulatory
and Environmental Impact Assessment |
| RTAB | - | | Regional
Technical Advisory Bodies |
| SAHSU | - | | Small
Area Health Statistics Unit |
| SCAs | - | | Supplementary
credit approvals [a system of partial capital finance for composting and
recycling schemes by local authorities, discontinued in 1999] |
| SELCHP | - | | South
East London Combined Heat and Power Plant |
| SME | - | | Small and
medium enterprise |
| SSA | - | | Standard
Spending Assessment (UK) |
| SWMA | - |
| Sustainable Waste Mangegement Appraisal |
| TCDD | - | | Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin:
[a dioxin with four chlorine atoms; a human carcinogen] |
| TCDF | - | | Tetrachlorodibenzofuran:
[furan with four chlorine atoms] |
| TCF
technologies | - | | Totally
chlorine-free technologies |
| TDI | - | | Tolerable
Daily Intake |
| TDS | - | | Total diet
study |
| TEF | - | | Toxicity
Equivalence Factors |
| USEPA | - | | United
States Environmental Protecton Agency |
| VOCs | - | | Volatile
Organic Component |
| WCAs | - | | Waste
Collection Authorities |
| WDA | - | | Waste
Disposal Authority |
| WHO | - | | World
Health Organisation |
