Definitions for "Special Waste"
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Defined by the Environmental Protection (Special Waste) Regulations 1996 (as amended) and is broadly any waste on the European Hazardous Waste List that has one or more of fourteen defined hazardous properties.
non-hazardous waste requiring special handling for disposal
a hybrid of hazardous and nonhazardous wastes posing some limited amount of health or environmental risks due to physical or toxicological properties.
See Hazardous Waste
For waste characterization purposes, special waste is waste that poses a chronic toxicity hazard to human health or the environment, requiring special collection, treatment, handling, storage, or transfer techniques. Per Title 14, California Code of Regulations, section 18722 (j)(8), special wastes include: Ash Sewage sludge Industrial sludge Asbestos Auto shredder waste Auto bodies Other special wastes
Any waste that requires special handling. Special waste is non-hazardous waste generally from an industrial generator and must be profiled to ensure that it does not contain elevated levels of potentially hazardous chemicals or materials.
Solid and liquid toxic/hazardous waste
Items such as household hazardous waste, bulky wastes (refrigerators, pieces of furniture, etc.), tires, and used oil.
special waste is any waste which is defined as hazardous by the Hazardous Waste Directive (91/689/EEC)
Waste rock or processing solids with low-grade non-economic uranium content or reactive (ie. acid generating) characteristics, requiring engineered containment to prevent interactions with the environment.
Solid wastes/recyclables that can require special handling and management, such as used motor oil, whole tyres, whitegoods, mattresses, lead-acid batteries, furniture and medical wastes.
waste that contains substances considered to be dangerous to life as listed in the Control of Pollution (Special Waste) Regulations 1980; applies within the UK
The Control of Pollution (Special Waste) Regulations 1990 defines special waste to include waste which is flammable or likely to cause injury or death if ingested or inhaled and a lengthy list of substances including arsenic, mercury, lead, asbestos, acids, alkalines and other compounds.