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WHAT IS HAZAROUS WASTE?
     
 

 

Hazardous waste is waste that has hazardous properties that may make it harmful to human health or the environment. Examples include:

- Asbestos
- Lead –Acid Batteries
- Electrical equipment containing hazardous substances such
as Fluorescent tubes.
- Oil Sludges
- Solvents
- Chemical Wastes
- Pesticides

 
         

IS MY WASTE HAZARDOUS?

         
 

 

The flowchart below shows the steps involved in finding out if waste is hazardous or not.

“Directive Waste” refers to European legislation called the Waste Framework Directive. If waste is not a Directive Waste , THE HWR do not apply to it, so such wastes cannot be hazardous wastes. Only the following waste are not Directive Wastes : Radioactive waste, waste resulting ... quarries, animal carcasses and other agricultural waste specified. Waste waters, with the exception of waste in liquid form, decommissioned explosives.

   
     

CREDENTIAL AUTOMOTIVE IS IN THE FORE
FRONT AS THE UK LEADS THE REST OF
EUROPE ON TYRE RECYCLING

     
 

More than 87 % of used tyres are now diverted from landfill in Europe according to new figures published for 2006 by ETRMA (European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers Association).

The 87% average tyre recovery rate for Europe was an increase of 3% compared to 2005. This was helped by the Landfill Directive which banned the disposal of tyres into landfill sites from July 2006.

 
 
     
 
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