Source: Environment Agency Controlled WasteMost wastes from commerce and industry are controlled wastes, including materials that are to be recycled. Controlled waste includes waste arising from domestic, industrial and commercial premises as well as Hazardous Waste for which there are additional regulations. Controlled Waste is also referred to as Directive Waste by the Waste Management Regulations 1994. Waste is defined (following implementation of the 1991 EU Framework Directive on Waste) as "any substance or object in the categories set out in Schedule 2B of the Environment and Protection Act 1990, which the holder discards or intends to or is required to discard." Schedule 2B includes the following:
Hazardous or Special WasteSection 62 of the EPA empowers the Secretary of State to make regulations for the treatment, keeping or disposal of particularly dangerous or difficult wastes that have hazardous properties. This regime is managed under the Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005. Such wastes include oily waste (e.g. oily rags, cuttings etc., and well clean up fluids) and chemical wastes, and other hazardous substances such as asbestos. Radioactive wastes may also be defined as hazardous, although radioactivity in itself does not classify radioactive waste as hazardous. For offshore waste disposal purposes, hazardous waste can be defined as any wastes which:
Radioactive waste may be classed as Special Waste if it also has these properties. It is not classified as special waste simply on the basis of its radioactivity. NB: In Scotland the regime for managing such dangerous or difficult wastes is the Special Waste Regulations 1996
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