other hazardous waste types. Furthermore, HHW is an exception
from Article 18 “Ban on the mixing of hazardous waste”. This practically
means that there are not any provisions for the prohibition of
hazardous and non-hazardous waste mixing in households and no
specific regulation to impose separation of the hazardous from
non-hazardous waste. However, in case HHW fractions are separated
from the mixed household waste stream, they have to be
managed as hazardous waste and kept separate from mixed
municipal waste. Furthermore, separated fractions of HHW are
subject to controls on recording keeping and labelling once they
have been accepted at a collection point. Similar is the situation in
USA, where household waste, including HHW, is exempt from RCRA
(Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; among others it regulates
solid and hazardous waste) Subtitle C hazardous waste regulations
and liability. However, the exemption from US hazardous
waste regulations applies to HHW, even when collected in large
quantities. In USA, only when HHW is mixed with hazardous waste
from commercial generators, it can generate more than 100 kg per
month or store more than 1000 kg onsite, the resulting mixture is
regulated as hazardous waste (NDEP, 2004). The list of separately
collected municipal waste identified as hazardous under the EWC is
presented in Table 1