The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997

Regulation 2

PART I DEFINITION OF WASTE—ARTICLE 1 OF AND ANNEX 1 TO THE WASTE DIRECTIVE

Article 1

1.  “Waste” shall mean any substance or object in the categories set out in Annex 1 which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard.

Annex 1

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.