The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Amendment of Schedule 3 (Definition of Waste)

14.—(1) In the shoulder note to Schedule 3 for “Regulation 2” there shall be substituted “Regulation 2(1)”.

(2) For the list R1 to R13 in paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 there shall be substituted –

• “R1 Use of waste principally as a fuel or for other means of generating energy;

• R2 Reclamation or regeneration of solvents;

• R3 Recycling or reclamation of organic substances which are not used as solvents, including composting and other biological transformation processes;

• R4 Recycling or reclamation of metals and metal compounds;

• R5 Recycling or reclamation of other inorganic materials;

• R6 Regeneration of acids or bases;

• R7 Recovery of components used for pollution abatement;

• R8 Recovery of components from catalysts;

• R9 Re refining, or other reuses, of oil which is waste;

• R10 Land treatment resulting in benefit to agriculture or ecological improvement;

• R11 Use of wastes obtained from any of the operations listed as R1 to R10 in this paragraph;

• R12 Exchange of wastes for submission to any of the operations listed as R1 to R11 in this paragraph;

• R13 Storage of waste pending any of the operations listed in this paragraph, but excluding temporary storage, pending collection, on the site where it is produced.”.

(3) Parts III, IV and V of Schedule 3 shall be omitted.