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Mr. Hinchliffe
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will take steps to define in legislation the terms hazardous waste and toxic waste.
Mr. Baldry
[holding answer 11 February 1991]: Hazardous waste and toxic waste are equated in British legislation to special waste. Special waste is defined in the Control of Pollution (Special Waste) Regulations 1980. These regulations will be revised in due course to reflect the definition of hazardous waste which will be made under the new EC directive on hazardous waste agreed at the Environment Council on 21 December 1990.