EWC Code
16 08 01 spent catalysts containing gold, silver, rhenium, rhodium, palladium, iridium or platinum (except 16 08 07)
This is a code under chapter 16 08 — Spent catalysts of the UK European Waste Catalogue, used on waste transfer notes to classify the type of waste being transferred.
- Code
- 16 08 01
- Chapter
- 16 08
- Description
- spent catalysts containing gold, silver, rhenium, rhodium, palladium, iridium or platinum (except 16 08 07)
- Chapter description
- Spent catalysts
- Entry type
- Mirror non-hazardous — part of a mirror pair. Whether this entry applies depends on a WM3 assessment of the substances present.
- Classification
- Non-hazardous. A standard Waste Transfer Note is required under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011.
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Whether 16 08 01 or its counterpart applies depends on a WM3 assessment of the substances present — the same waste stream classifies differently depending on what it contains.
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Other codes in chapter 16 08
Spent catalysts
- 16 08 02spent catalysts containing hazardous transition metals or hazardous transition metal compoundshazardous
- 16 08 03spent catalysts containing transition metals or transition metal compounds not otherwise specified
- 16 08 04spent fluid catalytic cracking catalysts (except 16 08 07)
- 16 08 05spent catalysts containing phosphoric acidhazardous
- 16 08 06spent liquids used as catalystshazardous