The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

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 filed slops, etc.);

Q12.  adultered 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.