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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-waste-management-licensing-scotland-regulations-2011/schedule-1/paragraph-11",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2011/9780111012147",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste Management Licensing (Scotland) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-waste-management-licensing-scotland-regulations-2011",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Carrying on at any place, in respect of waste of a kind listed in column 1 of Table 5, any of the activities specified in column 2 of that Table in relation to that kind of waste where—\n(a) the activity is carried on with a view to the recovery or reuse of the waste (whether or not by the person carrying on the activity listed in column 2 of that Table); and\n(b) the total quantity of any particular kind of waste dealt with at that place does not in any period of 7 days exceed the limit specified in relation to that kind of waste in column 3 of that Table.\nTable 5\nKind of waste\nActivities\nMaximum total quantity (tonnes per week)\n(1)includes special waste.\nWaste paper or cardboard\nBaling, sorting or shredding\n3,000\nWaste textiles\nBaling, sorting or shredding\n100\nWaste plastic\nBaling, sorting, shredding, densifying, pelletising or washing\n100\nWaste glass\nSorting, crushing or washing\n1,000\nWaste steel cans, aluminium cans or aluminium foil\nSorting, crushing, pulverising, shredding, compacting or baling\n100\nWaste food or drink cartons\nSorting, crushing, pulverising, shredding, compacting or baling\n100\nWaste tyres\nBaling, sorting or shredding\n10\nWaste wood\nBaling, compacting, sorting or shredding\n1,000\nWaste paint\nSorting, bulking or mixing\n100\nWaste batteries\nSorting\n10\n(2) The storage of waste paints intended to be used in reliance on the exemption in sub-paragraph (1).\n(3) In the case of any waste batteries, sorting must take place in accordance with the treatment conditions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1)includes special waste."
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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