{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-waste-management-plan-for-scotland-regulations-2007/schedule/paragraph-1A",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/251",
  "legislation_title": "The National Waste Management Plan for Scotland Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-waste-management-plan-for-scotland-regulations-2007",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Applying the following waste hierarchy:\n(a) prevention;\n(b) preparing for re-use;\n(c) recycling;\n(d) other recovery, including energy recovery;\n(e) disposal\nin a way which delivers the best overall environmental outcome. The hierarchy may be departed from for particular types of waste where justified in order to ensure this outcome and by reference to the overall impact of the generation and management of such types of waste.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 1A inserted (27.3.2011) by The Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/226), regs. 1(1), 5(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/251/schedule/paragraph/1A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:13:32.579133+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}