Classification of hazardous and non hazardous waste
16/09/2015
The main difference is that hazardous wastes pose a greater risk to the environment and human health than non hazardous wastes and this obviously requires a stricter control regime.
This is laid down in particular in Articles 17 to 20 of Directive 2008/98/EC, which provides additional labelling, record keeping, monitoring and control obligations from the waste producer to the final disposal or recovery.
The classification into hazardous and non hazardous waste is based on the system for the classification and labelling of dangerous substances and preparations, which ensures the application of similar principles over their whole life cycle.
The properties which render waste hazardous are laid down in Annex III of Directive 2008/98/EC and are further specified by the Decision 2000/532/EC establishing a List of Wastes as last amended by Decision 2001/573/EC.
However, in the household ambit there are not a wide range of practices in the collection, handling and treatment for hazardous household waste (HHW).
To do so, there is a study called “Study on hazardous household waste with a main emphasis on hazardous chemicals”.
The aim of this study is to evaluate national experiences of the management of hazardous products likely to become hazardous household waste (HHW), and to make proposals for strategies for the appropriate management of such products within a lifecycle perspective.
The data available at the country level are difficult to compare as there are not currently neither precise definitions nor common statutory controls within the European Union for hazardous household wastes, each country has adopted a different strategy to deal with hazardous household wastes.
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