Article 10 › 3

Member States may allow derogations from paragraph 2 provided that at least one of the following conditions is met: (a) collecting certain types of waste together does not affect their potential to undergo preparing for re-use, recycling or other recovery operations in accordance with Article 4 and results in output from those operations which is of comparable quality to that achieved through separate collection; (b) separate collection does not deliver the best environmental outcome when considering the overall environmental impacts of the management of the relevant waste streams; (c) separate collection is not technically feasible taking into consideration good practices in waste collection; (d) separate collection would entail disproportionate economic costs taking into account the costs of adverse environmental and health impacts of mixed waste collection and treatment, the potential for efficiency improvements in waste collection and treatment, revenues from sales of secondary raw materials as well as the application of the polluter-pays principle and extended producer responsibility.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-08-09