Directive Waste

Directive Waste is defined in the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994 (SI 1994 1056) as being any substance or object in the categories set out in Part II of Schedule 4 of the Regulations that the producer or holder discards, intends to discard or is required to discard. The list shown in Part II of Schedule 4 (Table below) is taken from the Waste Framework Directive (Directive 75/442/EEC) and covers a wide range of waste types, some of which are likely to de directly relevant to the HFE sector. In addition there is a catch-all category of ‘any materials, substances, or products which are not contained in the above list’. There are few exceptions to what is categorised as directive Waste. The most relevant of these to the HFE sector are;

Radioactive Waste
Gaseous emissions
Animal carcases, manure and other natural, non-dangerous materials used in farming (but NOT non natural waste such as waste pesticides or their containers)

You should note that whilst these waste types are not directive waste they are subject to other legislative controls.

Categories of Waste from WML Regs and from Waste Framework Directive (Annex 1 categories of waste)

Production or consumption residues not otherwise specified below
Off-specification products
Products whose date for appropriate use has expired
Materials spilled, lost or having undergone other mishap, including any materials, equipment, etc., contaminated as a result of the mishap
Materials contaminated or soiled as a result of planned actions (e.g. residues from cleaning operations, packing materials, containers, etc.)
Unusable parts (e.g. reject batteries, exhausted catalysts, etc.)
Substances which no longer perform satisfactorily (e.g. contaminated acids, contaminated solvents, exhausted tempering salts, etc.)
Residues of industrial processes (e.g. slags, still bottoms, etc.)
Residues from pollution abatement processes (e.g. scrubber sludges, baghouse dusts, spent filters, etc.)
Machining/finishing residues (e.g. lathe turnings, mill scales, etc.)
Residues from raw materials extraction and processing (e.g. mining residues, oil field slops, etc.)
Adulterated materials (e.g. oils contaminated with PCBs, etc.)
Any materials, substances or products whose use has been banned by law
Products for which the holder has no further use (e.g. agricultural, household, office, commercial and shop discards, etc.)
Contaminated materials, substances or products resulting from remedial action with respect to land
Any materials, substances or products which are not contained in the above categories.

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