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

Regulation 2

PART II DEFINITION OF RECOVERY — ANNEX IIB TO THE WASTE DIRECTORY

2.  This Part is intended to list recovery operations as they are carried out in practice; in accordance with Article 4 of the Waste Directive, waste must be recovered without endangering human health and without the use of processes or methods likely to harm the environment—

R1.  solvent reclamation/regeneration;

R2.  recycling/reclamation of organic substances which are not used as solvents;

R3.  recycling/reclamation of metals and metal compounds;

R4.  recycling/reclamation of other inorganic materials;

R5.  regeneration of acids or bases;

R6.  recovery of components used for pollution abatements;

R7.  recovery of components from catalysts;

R8.  oil re-fining or other re-uses of oil;

R9.  use principally as a fuel or other means to generate energy;

R10.  spreading on land resulting in benefit to agriculture or ecological improvement, including composting and other biological transformation processes, except in the case of waste excluded under Article 2(1)(b)(iii), of the Waste Directive;

R11.  use of wastes obtained from any of the operations numbered R1-R10;

R12.  exchange of wastes for submission of any of the operations numbered R1-R11; and

R13.  storage of materials intended for submission to any operation in this Part, excluding temporary storage, pending collection, on the site where it is produced.