Part I DEFINITION OF WASTE—ARTICLE 1 OF AND ANNEX 1 TO THE WASTE DIRECTIVE

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch.3, Pt.I amended by Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) 1999 reg.2(18) (a)
Sch.3, Pt.III, para.3 rev.in pt. and amended by Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) 1999 reg.2(18)(b)
Sch 3 am (E) (1.1.2004) by Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) 2003 regs 3, 15(1)
Sch 3, Pt II, para 2 am (E) (1.1.2004) by Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) 2003 regs 3, 15(2)
Sch 3, Pts III–V rev (E) (1.1.2004) by Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) 2003 regs 3, 15(3)
Sch 3 am (W) (1.1.2004) by Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) 2003 reg 3, Schedule, para 12(1)
Sch 3, Pt II, para 2 am (W) (1.1.2004) by Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) 2003 reg 3, Schedule, para 12(2)
Sch 3, Pts III–V rev (W) (1.1.2004) by Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) 2003 reg 3, Schedule, para 12(3)
Sch 3 am (S) (1.1.2004) by Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Amendment 2003 regs 3, 15(1)
Sch 3, Pt II, para 2 am (S) (1.1.2004) by Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Amendment 2003 regs 3, 15(2)
Sch 3, Pts III–V rev (S) (1.1.2004) by Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Amendment 2003 regs 3, 15(3)

Categories of waste

Q1	production or consumption residues not otherwise specified below;
Q2	off-specification products;
Q3	products whose date for appropriate use has expired;
Q4	materials spilled, lost or having undergone other mishap, including any materials, equipment, etc., contaminated as a result of the mishap;
Q5	materials contaminated or soiled as a result of planned actions (for example, residues from cleaning operations, packing materials, containers etc.);
Q6	unusable parts (for example, reject batteries, exhausted catalysts etc.);
Q7	substances which no longer perform satisfactorily (for example, contaminated acids, contaminated solvents, exhausted tempering salts etc.);
Q8	residues of industrial processes (for example, slags, still bottoms etc.);
Q9	residues from pollution abatement processes (for example, scrubber sludges, baghouse dusts, spent filters etc.);
Q10	machining/finishing residues (for example, lathe turnings, mill scales etc.);
Q11	residues from raw materials extraction and processing (for example, mining residues, oil field slops etc.);
Q12	adulterated materials (for example, oils contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls etc.);
Q13	any materials, substances or products whose use has been banned by law;
Q14	products for which the holder has no further use (for example, agricultural, household, office, commercial and shop discards etc.);
Q15	contaminated materials, substances or products resulting from remedial action with respect to land; and
Q16	any materials, substances or products which are not contained in the above categories.

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