Amendment of the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007
18. After Schedule 1 insert Schedule 1A and Schedule 1B.
“SCHEDULE 1ADISPOSAL OPERATIONS
1. Deposit into or on to land (for example landfill).
2. Land treatment (for example biodegradation of liquid or sludgy discards in soils).
3. Deep injection (for example injection of pumpable discards into wells, salt domes or naturally occurring repositories).
4. Surface impoundment (for example placement of liquid or sludgy discards into pits, ponds or lagoons).
5. Specially engineered landfill (for example placement into discreet cells which are capped and isolated from one another and from the environment).
6. Release into a water body except seas or oceans.
7. Release into seas or oceans including sea bed insertion.
8. Biological treatment not specified in this Schedule which results in compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations mentioned in paragraphs 1 to 7 or 9 to 12.
9. Physio-chemical treatment not specified elsewhere in this Schedule which results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations mentioned in paragraphs 1 to 7 or 10 to 12.
10. Incineration on land.
11. Incineration at sea.
12. Permanent Storage (for example emplacement in containers in a mine).
13. Blending or mixing prior to submission to any or the operations mentioned in paragraphs 1 to 12.
14. Repackaging prior to submission to any of the operations mentioned in paragraphs 1 to 13.
15. Storage pending any of the operations mentioned in paragraphs 1 to 14 excluding temporary storage, pending collection, on the site where it is produced.
SCHEDULE 1BCATEGORIES OF WASTE
1. Production or consumption residues not otherwise specified in paragraphs 2 to 12 of this Schedule.
2. Off specification products.
3. Products whose date for appropriate use has expired.
4. Materials spilled, lost or having undergone other mishap including and any materials or equipment contaminated as a result of that mishap.
5. Materials contaminated or soiled as a result of planned actions (for example residues from cleaning operations, packaging materials of containers).
6. Unusable parts (for example reject batteries or exhausted catalysts).
7. Substances which no longer perform satisfactorily (for example contaminated acids, contaminated solvents or exhausted tempering salts).
8. Residues of industrial processes (for example slags or still bottoms).
9. Residues from pollution abatement processes (for example scrubber sludge’s, baghouse dusts or spent fillers).
10. Machining or finishing residues (for example lathe turnings or mill scales).
11. Residues from raw materials extraction and processing (for example mining residues or oil field slops).
12. Adulterated materials (for example oils contaminated with PCB’s).”.