The Legal Meaning of Waste - The OSS Case
Semple Fraser has, for the past 18 months, been working with the leading UK waste oils recycling company – The OSS Group – on one of the most important legal cases of recent years. The case concerns the notoriously difficult legal complications attending the industrial manufacture of secondary products from hazardous waste.
The core issue is of fundamental importance, with massive industrial and commercial impact – what are the legal criteria that have to be met in order to process a waste stream into a non-waste secondary product or raw material?
The Court of Appeal ruling that, subject to certain criteria, waste lubricating oil can be recovered to a non-waste fuel product, delivered on 28th June 2007, is a key legal decision which should form the basis of legal regulation of waste recycling and recovery in the UK for years to come.
This briefing relays the facts of the case and clarifies both the decision of the Court of Appeal and the implications of that decision.
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