The Waste Separation Requirements (Wales) Regulations 2023

PART 1 Introduction

Title, coming into force and application

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Waste Separation Requirements (Wales) Regulations 2023.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 6 April 2024.

(3) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the 1990 Act” (“Deddf 1990”) means the Environmental Protection Act 1990;

“caravan” (“carafán”) has the meaning given by section 75(5)(b) of the 1990 Act;

“cartons and similar” (“cartonau a’u tebyg”) means fibre-based composite packaging, being packaging material which is made of paperboard or paper fibres, laminated with low density polythene or polypropylene plastic, and which may also have layers of other materials, to form a single unit that cannot be separated by hand;

“controlled waste” (“gwastraff a reolir”) has the meaning given by section 75(4) of the 1990 Act;

“domestic property” (“eiddo domestig”) has the meaning given by section 75(5)(a) of the 1990 Act;

“electrical and electronic equipment” (“offer trydanol ac electronig”) means equipment which is dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields in order to work properly and equipment for the generation, transfer and measurement of such currents and fields and designed for use with a voltage rating not exceeding 1,000 volts for alternating current and 1,500 volts for direct current;

“food waste” (“gwastraff bwyd”) has the meaning given by section 34D(5) of the 1990 Act, but does not include—

(a)

animal by-products comprising Category 1 material as listed in Article 8, or Category 2 material as listed in Article 9, of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down health rules as regards animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption(1),

(b)

food waste from premises that produce less than 5 kilogrammes of food waste in seven consecutive days, or

(c)

any waste categorised as hazardous under regulation 6 of the Hazardous Waste (Wales) Regulations 2005(2) or containing residues of, or contaminated by, waste or substances categorised as hazardous under regulation 6 of those Regulations;

“premises” (“mangre”) does not include a domestic property or a caravan;

“presenting waste for collection” (“cyflwyno gwastraff i’w gasglu”) includes an occupier of premises taking controlled waste to a centralised collection point;

“recyclable waste streams” (“ffrydiau gwastraff ailgylchadwy”) means—

(a)

glass;

(b)

cartons and similar, metal and plastic;

(c)

paper and card;

(d)

food waste;

(e)

unsold small waste electrical and electronic equipment;

(f)

unsold textiles,

each comprising of the waste sub-fractions listed in Schedule 1, and “recyclable waste stream” means each of the individual streams listed in paragraphs (a) to (f);

“regulator” (“rheoleiddiwr”) means Natural Resources Wales;

“small waste electrical and electronic equipment” (“offer trydanol ac electronig gwastraff bach”) means electrical and electronic equipment falling within one of the categories of EEE listed in Schedule 3 to the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2013(3), excluding items with any external dimension of more than 50 centimetres;

“unsold” (“nas gwerthwyd”) means an unused consumer product, in a factory, retail premises, wholesaler, warehouse or other premises, that has not been sold to a consumer or has been sold and returned by a consumer.

(1)

EUR 2009/1069, amended by S.I. 2020/1388, there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

(2)

S.I. 2005/1806 (W. 138), amended by S.I. 2020/1339 (W. 296).

(3)

S.I. 2013/3113, amended by S.I. 2018/1214.