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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-waste-regulations-1997/schedule-3/part-I",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/648",
  "legislation_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-waste-regulations-1997",
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  "kind": "part",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "DEFINITION OF WASTE—ARTICLE 1 OF AND ANNEX 1 TO THE WASTE DIRECTIVE",
  "text": "Categories of waste\nQ1\nproduction or consumption residues not otherwise specified below;\nQ2\noff-specification products;\nQ3\nproducts whose date for appropriate use has expired;\nQ4\nmaterials spilled, lost or having undergone other mishap, including any materials, equipment, etc., contaminated as a result of the mishap;\nQ5\nmaterials contaminated or soiled as a result of planned actions (for example, residues from cleaning operations, packing materials, containers etc.);\nQ6\nunusable parts (for example, reject batteries, exhausted catalysts etc.);\nQ7\nsubstances which no longer perform satisfactorily (for example, contaminated acids, contaminated solvents, exhausted tempering salts etc.);\nQ8\nresidues of industrial processes (for example, slags, still bottoms etc.);\nQ9\nresidues from pollution abatement processes (for example, scrubber sludges, baghouse dusts, spent filters etc.);\nQ10\nmachining/finishing residues (for example, lathe turnings, mill scales etc.);\nQ11\nresidues from raw materials extraction and processing (for example, mining residues, oil field slops etc.);\nQ12\nadulterated materials (for example, oils contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls etc.);\nQ13\nany materials, substances or products whose use has been banned by law;\nQ14\nproducts for which the holder has no further use (for example, agricultural, household, office, commercial and shop discards etc.);\nQ15\ncontaminated materials, substances or products resulting from remedial action with respect to land; and\nQ16\nany materials, substances or products which are not contained in the above categories.",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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