constitutes the most recent
legislation including provisions for hazardous waste. More specifically,
the WFD repealed the Hazardous Waste Directive with effect
from 12 December 2010. In the EU, the Hazardous Waste Directive
(91/689/EEC) in its Article 1(5) explicitly exempted household
waste from the provisions of this Directive and the same is done in
the new WFD (2008/98/EC), in Article 20