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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/648",
  "legislation_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997",
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  "number": "2",
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  "text": "This Part is intended to list recovery operations as they are carried out in practice; in accordance with article 4 of the Waste Directive, waste must be recovered without endangering human health and without the use of processes or methods likely to harm the environment—\nR1\nsolvent reclamation/regeneration;\nR2\nrecycling/reclamation of organic substances which are not used as solvents;\nR3\nrecycling/reclamation of metals and metal compounds;\nR4\nrecycling/reclamation of other inorganic materials;\nR5\nregeneration of acids or bases;\nR6\nrecovery of components used for pollution abatements;\nR7\nrecovery of components from catalysts;\nR8\noil re-fining or other re-uses of oil;\nR9\nuse principally as a fuel or other means to generate energy;\nR10\nspreading on land resulting in benefit to agriculture or ecological improvement, including composting and other biological transformation processes, except in the case of waste excluded under article 2(1)(b)(iii), of the Waste Directive;\nR11\nuse of wastes obtained from any of the operations numbered R1—R10;\nR12\nexchange of wastes for submission to any of the operations numbered R1—R11; and\nR13\nstorage of materials intended for submission to any operation in this Part, excluding temporary storage, pending collection, on the site where it is produced.",
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