Schedule 9, Part 2, Chapter 1, paragraph 2

In this Part — “drink” means— water suitable for human consumption, a beverage suitable for human consumption, a sports drink suitable for human consumption, or a liquid which constitutes a beverage or sports drink suitable for human consumption if it is— diluted, combined with crushed ice, or processed so as to create crushed ice, combined with carbon dioxide, or prepared by way of a process that involves any combination of the processes mentioned in paragraphs (i) to (iii) and includes, for example, fruit squash or fruit cordial; “drink container” means a bottle or can in which a drink is supplied and which— together with any label applied to it and its lid or other closures; is made wholly or mainly from polyethelene terephthalate (PET) plastic, steel or aluminium, has a capacity of at least 50 millilitres but no more than three litres of liquid, when it is filled for supply, is securely closed, and is designed to be used only once, or for a short period of time, before being discarded, “fibre-based composite material” means packaging material which is made of paperboard or paper fibres, laminated with plastic, and which may also have layers of other materials, to form a single unit that cannot be separated by hand; “material particles” means— for specified output material that is made up in largest proportion of glass material, particles of that material that measure less than 13 millimetres along their longest dimension, and in relation to all other types of specified output material and for ... waste material, particles of material measuring less than 55 millimetres along their longest dimension; “materials facility” means, subject to sub-paragraph (2), a regulated facility or part of a regulated facility that receives ... waste material in order to— for the purpose of selling it, or transferring it to other facilities or persons to enable that material to be prepared for re-use or recycling; separate it into specified output material, or consolidate it into bulk quantities (whether as a first point of consolidation for such waste or following the first consolidation of bulk quantities transferred from other suppliers), ... “non-recyclable material” means waste material that is not capable of being recycled; “non-target material” means material that is capable of being recycled but is not a target material; “packaging” means all products made of any materials of any nature to be used for the containment, protection, handling, delivery and presentation of goods, from raw materials to processed goods, from the producer to the user or the consumer, including non-returnable items used for the same purposes, but only where the products are— primary packaging, which is packaging conceived so as to constitute a sales unit to the final user or consumer at the point of purchase; secondary packaging, which is packaging conceived so as to constitute at the point of purchase a grouping of a certain number of sales units whether the latter is supplied as such to the final user or consumer or whether it serves only as a means to replenish the shelves at the point of sale; it can be removed from the product without affecting the product’s characteristics; tertiary packaging, which is packaging conceived so as to facilitate handling and transport of a number of sales units or secondary packaging in order to prevent damage from physical handling and transport damage and for these purposes tertiary packaging does not include road, rail, ship and air containers; shipment packaging, which is packaging in addition to primary packaging on items which are sold online or by mail order which are either delivered direct to the purchaser or collected by the purchaser from a shop or other collection point after they have been purchased; “reporting period” means any of the following periods— 1st January to 31st March; 1st April to 30th June; 1st July to 30th September; 1st October to 31st December; “specified output material” means a batch of material (whether or not waste) that is— produced from a separating process for ... waste material, and made up of one or more of the following kinds of material— glass; metal; paper; card; plastic; fibre-based composite material; “sports drink” means a drink which is advertised or marketed as a product to enhance physical performance, accelerate recovery after exercise or build bulk, or other similar drink; “target material” means material (whether of one kind or more) that is identified by the operator of a materials facility as destined (whether by that facility or by other facilities or persons) to be separated out from ... waste material or consolidated in order to produce bulk quantities of that identified material; “waste material” means waste that— is household waste, or originates from a source other than household waste but is similar to household waste in terms of its nature or composition, has been separately collected (whether as a single kind of material or two or more kinds of material mixed together) for the primary purpose of preparing it for re-use or recycling, and consists (whether wholly or in part) of any of the following kinds of material— glass; metal; paper; card; plastic; fibre-based composite material. In this Part — any reference to a “materials facility” excludes a facility or part of a facility— at which all the waste material received during a reporting period is attributable exclusively to a single supplier, unless the waste material so received is separated into specified output material at that facility; that is provided pursuant to arrangements made under section 51(1)(b) of the 1990 Act by an authority that is a waste disposal authority within the meaning of section 30(2) of that Act; that undertakes the processing or sorting of WEEE, waste batteries or accumulators; references to recycling, “recycled” or “recyclable” are to be construed in accordance with the meaning of “recycling” given in Article 3(17) of the Waste Framework Directive. For the purposes of this Part, in relation to a batch of waste material received at a materials facility— where that batch comprises material collected pursuant to arrangements made under section 45(1)(a) or (b) of the 1990 Act by an authority that is a waste collection authority within the meaning of section 30(3) of that Act, that authority is the supplier, except in a case falling within paragraph (b); where that batch has been transferred from another materials facility, the operator of the materials facility from which that material was transferred is the supplier; in a case not falling within paragraph (a) or (b), the person who collected the material or, if that person is not known, the person responsible for delivering it to the materials facility is the supplier.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-07-30