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A licensed facility authorised to carry out end-of-life vehicle treatment operations.
California Vehicle Code term for a person in the business of buying, selling, or dealing in registered vehicles for dismantling, parts, or used motor-vehicle parts.
Waste Shipment Regulation term for competent authority of destination in cross-border waste movement workflows.
Waste Shipment Regulation term for competent authority of dispatch in cross-border waste movement workflows.
Waste Shipment Regulation term for competent authority of transit in cross-border waste movement workflows.
PPWR source-specific term for compostable packaging.
WSR recipient under the country of destination jurisdiction to whom waste is shipped for recovery or disposal.
PPWR source-specific term for design for recycling.
The ESPR term for intentionally damaging or discarding a product as waste, except delivery for preparation for reuse, refurbishment, or remanufacturing.
A regulated product-specific data set that connects a product, model, batch, or item to required compliance, sustainability, circularity, and lifecycle information.
The ESPR life-cycle stage that starts when a product is discarded and ends when its waste material returns to nature or enters another product life cycle.
China source-specific ELV term for a motor vehicle that should be scrapped under the Road Traffic Safety Law.
A vehicle that has become waste under end-of-life vehicle rules.
An Ontario ELV site category for waste disposal sites that manage end-of-life vehicles and permitted removed materials.
A Brazil battery-waste term for destinations that minimize environmental risks through collection, receipt, reuse, recycling, treatment, or final disposal procedures.
A CRMA incorporated-reference term for extractive waste under Directive 2006/21/EC, relevant to critical-raw-material recovery from mining waste streams.
PPWR recycling process that preserves technical characteristics so recycled material can substitute primary raw material.
WSR status for shipments carried out without required notification, consent, accurate documents, or other listed legal conditions.
PPWR source-specific term for material recycling.
NSW official guidance term for businesses involving buying or obtaining, demolishing or dismantling motor vehicles or vehicle parts and accessories.
California Vehicle Code term for a vehicle that meets nonrepairable criteria, receives a nonrepairable vehicle certificate, and cannot be titled or registered.
WSR actor assigned the duty to notify for certain waste shipments originating from a Member State or imported/transiting waste.
PPWR definition of packaging as an item used for containment, protection, handling, delivery, or presentation of products.
PPWR definition of packaging or packaging material that is waste, excluding production residues.
PPWR source-specific term for packaging waste prevention.
Waste Shipment Regulation term for person who arranges the shipment in cross-border waste movement workflows.
A circularity term for keeping a product, component, battery, or material in use rather than sending it straight to recycling or disposal.
PPWR source-specific term for re-use system.
PPWR compatibility concept linking packaging design to separate collection, sorting, recycling at scale, and replacement of primary raw materials.
Working definition for recycled-material share in batteries, products, and permanent magnets, anchored in EU Battery Regulation, Ontario battery, and CRMA source context.
A material-recovery term for reprocessing waste materials into products, materials, or substances, kept separate from re-use and other end-of-life steps.
PPWR operation where an end-user or final distributor fills a packaging-function container with products bought from the final distributor.
PPWR place where a final distributor offers products that end users can buy through refill.
Actions that restore a product or discarded product to its originally intended range of performance and functionality.
An India vehicle-scrapping establishment registered to carry out dismantling and scrapping operations.
A Brazil National Solid Waste Policy term for returning solid waste to the business sector for reuse, production cycles, or environmentally appropriate final destination.
PPWR term for checked and sorted materials obtained through recycling processes that can substitute primary raw materials.
WSR definition of transport of waste destined for recovery or disposal across specified cross-border situations.
PPWR term for packaging that is not reusable packaging.
An ESPR category for substances that are hazardous or can negatively affect reuse, recycling, and product circularity.
A Türkiye ELV area where end-of-life vehicles are depolluted, dismantled, and temporarily held before transfer to a treatment facility.
California Vehicle Code term for certain damaged vehicles considered uneconomical to repair, excluding nonrepairable vehicles.
A Türkiye ELV facility licensed to carry out treatment activities such as cutting, shredding, and preparing ELV waste for recovery or disposal.
A CRMA capacity metric for Union-based recycling operations that produce secondary raw materials from strategic raw-material waste streams.
A consumer product that has not been sold and may trigger ESPR attention around inventory, disclosure, and destruction decisions.
A Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008 term for environmentally appropriate procedures covering used-battery discard, collection, storage, handling, recycling, reuse, treatment, or final disposal.
India RVSF process from receiving an end-of-life vehicle through depollution, dismantling, material segregation, disposal of non-reusable parts, and issuance of a scrapping certificate.
An umbrella term for the organized collection, transport, treatment, recovery, recycling, disposal, and supervision of waste.
A federal Australian product-stewardship and waste-export term from the Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020.