Hazardous Waste Recyclables...

Background

recycling image Everyone produces waste, by virtue of living in the twenty first century and taking advantage of the consumer choice offered by an industrialised society.

Around 5 million tonnes of hazardous waste is produced by over 100,000 businesses in England and Wales. This is the amount of waste produced by commercial and industrial sources which is sent to external treatment and disposal facilities. Very often the manufacture of apparently innocuous, everyday items results in the production of hazardous waste.

Changes in legislation mean that most, if not all businesses, produce hazardous waste.

Typical Wastes & Collections Services

The list of by-products and materials now classified as hazardous is extremely long and varied. The full list is published in a document called the European Waste Catalogue.

Here is just a sample of what it contains:

Wastes Produced	Collection Services
Hazardous Waste (Recyclable) Toner Cartridges Fire Extinguishers Fluorescent Tubes Sodium Bulbs Aerosols Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE) TV's VDU's Computers Circuit Boards Fridges Freezers Microwaves Cooking Oils Tyres Batteries Oil Oil Filters Car Stereos Boilers Oil Tanks Paints Inks Adhesives Solvents Gas Cylinders WEEE Contaminated Metal Packaging	Hazardous Waste Collections Haz-Box (for <50Kg) Chempack Chemist Bulk Transfer Tankers WEEE Collections Ash Removal & Disposal Boiler in a Bag Service

Words To Look Out For...

Most of the materials or products whose names or descriptions contain the following words are typically classified as "Hazardous".

Lead Acid
NiMH
Li Ion
Solvents
Flammable
Inflammable
Corrosive
Oil
Paint

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