“…Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Romania, and Poland participated in the project, which lasted for 3 years and was concluded in 2004. Apart from an extensive number of sources in the Scott (1995) Work in harmonising sampling and analytical protocols related to municipal solid waste conversion to energy International Energy Agency (IEA) Gay et al (1993) Cost-effective solid-waste characterization methodology Bovay Northwest Inc., US participating countries, the SWA-tool manual has synthesised experiences from France (ADEME), the Netherlands (RIVM), US (EPA, ASTM, Rugg), Japan (Matsuto and Ham, 1990;Matsuto and Tanaka, 1993;Terashima et al, 1984) and many others. However, from information received in October 2006, the Solid Waste Analysis (SWA)-tool was not in prospect of becoming a European standard.…”