Are there any special restrictions affecting the management of waste film and paper?
None of these wastes are listed as hazardous under the EU Hazardous Waste Directive, and no special controls should be necessary for their storage and handling. The rules controlling the transport of waste are complex, and depend on whether or not the material is to be shipped from one country to another. Recent decisions by international conventions have classified film and paper waste as non-hazardous, though some controls may still be applied in the short term to those materials containing silver.
