| Abbreviation | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| PIC | Periodic Infrastructure Cleaning |
| PIRAP | Plastic Industry Recycling Action Plan |
| PP | Proximity Principle |
| PPC | Pollution Prevention and Control Act |
| 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 |
| QESH | Quality, Environment, Safety and Health |
| QUANGO | Quasi Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation |
| QUENSH | QUality, ENvironment, Safety and Health |
| RAD | Rotary Aerobic Digestion |
| RAG | Recycling Advisory Group, Scotland |
| RCE | Regional Centre of Excellence |
| RCEP | Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution |
| RCGW | Regionalne Centrum Gospodarki Wodno (Polish: Regional Center of Water and Wastewater; Tychy, Poland) |
| RDA | Regional Development Agency (all abolished in England on 31 March 2012) |