Household Waste

According to section 75(5) of Enviromental Protection Act, 1990, "household waste" means waste from:

• domestic property, that is to say, a building or self-contained part of a building which is used wholly for the purposes of living accommodation;
• a caravan which usually and for the time being is situated on a caravan site;
• a residential home;
• premises forming part of a university or school or other educational establishment;
• premises forming part of a hospital or nursing home.

Household waste includes waste from:

• "dustbin" household collections;
• street sweepings;
• litter, bulky and hazardous household wastes;
• parks and gardens;
• civic amenity sites and wastes separately collected for recycling or composting through recycling banks or kerbside schemes.

A detailed list can be found in Schedule 1 of Controlled Waste Regulation, 1992.

As per section 3 of Controlled Waste Regulations, 1992, waste of the following descriptions are not treated as household waste

• any mineral or synthetic oil or grease;
• asbestos;
• clinical waste; and
• scrap metal