# The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997, Part I: DEFINITION OF WASTE—ARTICLE 1 OF AND ANNEX 1 TO THE WASTE DIRECTIVE


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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/648/schedule/3/part/I (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-waste-regulations-1997/schedule-3/part-I
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.