20 days until digital waste tracking is mandatoryThe guide

Mirror entry

The short answer

A pair of EWC codes for the same material, one hazardous and one not. Which applies depends on what the waste actually contains, not on what it looks like.

In practice

Deciding needs knowledge of the process or a test, and the burden sits with the producer. Picking the non-hazardous half because it is cheaper to move is the most common deliberate mis-description in the trade.

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