Individual companies, including micro-companies

Businesses (SARL, SASU, SAS, EURL, SA, SNC, SCS, SCA, etc.)

Waste which has one or more of the following hazard properties: explosive, oxidizing, flammable, irritant, toxic, carcinogenic, corrosive, infectious, mutagenic, giving off an acutely toxic gas, sensitizing, ecotoxic.

A set of substances that degrade slowly, accumulate in living organisms, are toxic and easily transported over long distances. They are listed in a European regulation. Examples include pesticides and PCBs.

Biodegradable non-hazardous waste: food, catering, production failure and vegetable waste

Concrete, bricks, tiles, ceramics, stones

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

Act prohibited by law and punishable by a fine and/or imprisonment of less than 10 years

Any operation allowing waste to be reused (recycling, energy production...) or prepared for reuse.

Any waste which does not undergo any significant physical, chemical or biological modification, which does not decompose, burn, produce any physical or chemical reaction, is not biodegradable and does not damage the materials with which it comes into contact. Most of the waste is from the construction sector (concrete, brick, tile waste, etc.).

Sectors with specific waste management obligations for the products they market. Some 20 categories of waste generating products subject to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) exist.

Any article intended to contain and protect goods, to enable them to be handled and transported from the producer to the consumer or user, and to ensure their presentation. All “throw-away” items used for the same purpose should be considered packaging. Exceptions: gas cylinders and chemical packaging.

Any printed paper medium, except toilet paper and wrapping paper

Copying papers, graphic papers, envelopes and postage bags

Products and materials, including wall, floor and ceiling coverings, intended for permanent use in a building or for use in any facilities situated on its grounds, including those relating to the parking of vehicles. Products and materials used only for the duration of the work are excluded.

Electrical and electronic equipment operating with electric currents or electromagnetic fields for the performance of at least one intended function and equipment for the production, transfer and measurement of such currents and fields, designed for use at a voltage not exceeding 1 000 volts AC and 1 500 volts DC.

All types of batteries and accumulators, whatever their shape, volume, weight, constituent materials or use. Exceptions: Those used in equipment related to the protection of the essential interests of State security and those intended to be launched into space.

Whose dangerousness is likely to cause a significant deterioration in human health and whose dangerousness is likely to cause deterioration in the soil or subsoil or in the quality of natural environments or in the integrity of fauna and flora

Any substance or combination of substances presented as having curative or preventive properties with regard to human diseases, and any substance or combination of substances which may be used or administered in human beings, with a view to making a medical diagnosis or to restoring, correcting or modifying physiological functions by exerting a pharmacological, immunological or metabolic action.

Movable goods and their components, the main function of which is to contribute to the development of a dwelling, business or public accommodation by providing a seat, a bed, storage, a work or installation plan, or by decorating walls, floors and windows

Includes mock-ups, puzzles, business games and all products designed or intended for use in play by children under 14 years of age. Excludes communal playground equipment, automatic play machines, children's vehicles equipped with combustion engines, steam toys, slingshots and slingshots

Products intended for use in sport and those intended for outdoor activities (e.g. bicycles, sports balls, backpacks, snowshoes, etc.).

Includes painter's tools, thermal motorized machinery and equipment, DIY equipment, including hand tools, products and equipment for garden maintenance and landscaping, except for products in the Toys or Construction Materials sectors. Excludes products designed to be used exclusively by professionals, hardware, brick-and-mortar fittings and electrical and electronic equipment.

Oils for the following uses: for heat engines and turbines, for gears, for movements, for compressors, multifunctional, for hydraulic systems and dampers, for electrical uses, for heat treatment, non-soluble for working metal, used as heat transfer fluids.

Any vessel used either for personal use, in particular for recreational or sports purposes, or for training in recreational boating and any recreational vessel. The vessels concerned are either 2,5 to 24 m long, without a motor and not powered by human energy (trainsets, pedals, etc.), or less than 4 m long, equipped with a motor and not operated from inside the vessel.

Products which may be consumed and which are composed, even partially, of tobacco. Examples: cigarettes, roll-your-own tobacco, pipe tobacco, water pipe tobacco, cigars, cigarillos, chewing tobacco, snuff, heating tobacco, oral tobacco, etc.