Official description
Waste from electrical and electronic assemblies containing components such as accumulators, mercury-switches, glass from cathode-ray tubes and other activated glass or polychlorinated biphenyl- capacitors, or contaminated with cadmium, mercury, lead, nickel, chromium, copper, lithium, silver, manganese or polychlorinated biphenyl
Group: SW1
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Classification context
Compare the official description with the process that produced the waste and its known characteristics. A code lookup does not itself establish a classification or a receiving facility’s acceptance.
Prepare the waste record
Document the generating process, inputs, composition, potential contamination and any relevant analysis. Keep the basis of the classification decision with the inventory.
Source record
Document: Environmental Quality (Scheduled Wastes) Regulations 2005, incorporating P.U.(A) 158/2007. Reference retrieved 12 November 2026. Check the responsible publisher for subsequent changes.