Section 14(2)

The duty in paragraph (1) applies where keeping waste separate is necessary to ensure that waste undergoes preparing for re-use, recycling or other recovery operations in accordance with Articles 4 and 13 of the Waste Framework Directive and to facilitate or improve preparing for re-use, recycling or recovery, unless one of the following conditions is met— mixing certain types of waste together results in output from those operations which is of comparable quality to that achieved through keeping waste separate; keeping waste separate does not deliver the best environmental outcome when considering the overall environmental impacts of the management of the relevant waste streams; keeping waste separate is not technically feasible taking into consideration good practices in waste collection; or keeping waste separate 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: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-07-30