APPENDIX 7: ACRONYMS
ALFED Aluminium Federation
ALUPRO Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation
BERR Department for Business, Enterprise
and Regulatory Reform
BRE Building Research Establishment
BREEAM Building Research Establishment Environmental
Assessment
Method
BREW Business Resource Efficiency and Waste
BSI British Standards Institution
CEEQUAL Civil Engineering Environmental Quality
Assessment and Award
Scheme
CIA Chemical Industries Association
CIKTN Chemistry Innovation Knowledge Transfer
Network
CIWM Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
CPR Collective Producer Responsibility
Defra Department for Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs
DIUS Department for Innovation, Universities
and Skills
DTI Department of Trade and Industry
EIC Environmental Industries Commission
ELV End-of-Life Vehicle
EPEPF Electronic Producers Environmental Policy
Forum
EPR Extended Producer Responsibility
EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council
ESRC Economic and Social Research Council
EU European Union
EuP Eco-design of Energy-using Products
FSB Federation of Small Businesses
HEFCE Higher Education Funding Council for England
ICE Institution of Civil Engineers
IChemE Institution of Chemical Engineers
INCPEN Industry Council for Packaging and the
Environment
IoM Institute of Materials, Minerals and
Mining
IPR Individual Producer Responsibility
ISO International Organisation for Standardization
IT Information Technology
KTN Knowledge Transfer Network
KTP Knowledge Transfer Partnership
LARAC Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee
LATS Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme
LCA Life-Cycle Assessment
LGA Local Government Association
MADE Materials and Design Exchange
MTP Market Transformation Programme
NISP National Industrial Symbiosis Programme
OVAM Openbare Vlammse Afvalstoffenmaatschappij
(Public Waste Agency of Flanders, Belgium)
PAS Publicly Available Specification
PET Polyethylene terephthalate
PICME Process Industries Centre for Manufacturing
Excellence
RDA Regional Development Agency
RED Resource Efficient Design Initiative,
De Montfort University
REKTN Resource Efficiency Knowledge Transfer
Network
RFID Radio Frequency Identification
RoHS Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous
Substances in electrical
and electronic equipment
SDC Sustainable Development Commission
SEED Social Environmental Enterprise and
Design Foundation
SME Small- and Medium-sized Enterprise
SMMT Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders
SWMP Site Waste Management Plan
TSB Technology Strategy Board
UK United Kingdom
VAT Value Added Tax
WEEE Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
WRAP Waste and Resources Action Programme
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