Regulation 3 Duties in relation to presentation of wasteI1

For the purposes of section 45AA(4) of the 1990 Act, the separation requirements are that each recyclable waste stream must, as a minimum, be presented for collection separately from any other recyclable waste stream and from other types of controlled waste or other substances or articles.

Notwithstanding regulation 3(1), food waste within its original packaging may be presented for collection within the food waste recyclable waste stream provided that it is not reasonably practicable for the occupier to separate the food waste from its original packaging and that waste will be taken to and processed at a facility for—

Paragraph (1) does not apply to—

In this regulation—

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• “preparation for re-use” (“paratoi i’w ailddefnyddio”) means checking, cleaning or repairing recovery operations, by which products or components of products that have become waste are prepared so that they can be used again for the same purpose for which they were conceived without any pre-processing;

• “principal litter authority” (“prif awdurdod sbwriel”), “relevant highway” (“priffordd berthnasol”) and “relevant land” (“tir perthnasol”) have the meanings given by section 86 of the 1990 Act;

• “recycling” (“ailgylchu”) means any recovery operation by which waste materials are reprocessed into products, materials or substances whether for the original or other purposes. It includes the reprocessing of organic material but does not include energy recovery and the reprocessing into materials that are to be used as fuels or for backfilling operations.