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Duties in relation to collection of wasteN.I.

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18.—(1) A district council, when collecting waste paper, metal, plastic or glass shallF1..., take all such measures to ensure separate collection of that waste as are available to it F2... [F3.]

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(2) A district council, when making arrangements for the collection of waste paper, metal, plastic or glass, shallF6... take measures to ensure that those arrangements are by way of separate collection.

[F7(3) The duties in this regulation apply where separate collection is necessary to ensure that waste undergoes preparing for re-use, recycling or other recovery operations in accordance with the waste hierarchy and the protection of human health and the environment and to facilitate or improve preparing for re-use, recycling or recovery, unless one of the following conditions is met—

(a)collecting the waste paper, metal, plastic or glass together results in output from those operations which is of comparable quality to that achieved through separate collection;

(b)separate collection of the waste does not deliver the best environmental outcome when considering the overall environmental impacts of the management of the relevant waste streams;

(c)separate collection of the waste is not technically feasible taking into consideration good practices in waste collection; or

(d)separate collection of the waste would entail disproportionate economic costs taking into account the costs of adverse environmental and health impacts of mixed waste collection and treatment, the potential for efficiency improvements in waste collection and treatment, revenues from sales of secondary raw materials as well as the application of the polluter-pays principle and extended producer responsibility.]

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I1Reg. 18 in operation at 1.1.2015, see reg. 1(3)

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