Some terms about waste according to legal regulations

According to Article 3 of Decree 08/2022/ND-CP, some legal terms on waste are prescribed as follows:

1. Solid waste is waste in solid or viscous form (also known as sludge) discharged from production, business, services, daily life or other activities.

2. Ordinary waste is waste that is not on the list of hazardous waste or is on the list of hazardous waste but has hazardous factors below the threshold of hazardous waste.

3. Domestic solid waste (also known as household waste) is solid waste generated in people's daily activities.

4. Industrial solid waste is solid waste generated from production, business and service activities, including hazardous solid waste and ordinary industrial solid waste. (amended and supplemented).

5. Wastewater is water whose characteristics and properties have changed and is discharged from production, business, services, daily life or other activities.

6. Liquid waste products are products, solutions, materials in liquid state that have expired or are discharged from the process of use, production, business, service, daily life or other activities. In case liquid waste products are discharged together with wastewater, they are generally called wastewater.

7. Wastewater receiving sources are where wastewater is discharged, including: Drainage systems, rivers, streams, creeks, canals, ditches, lakes, ponds, lagoons, coastal waters, seas and other receiving sources.

8. Industrial emissions are wastes existing in gaseous or vaporous state arising from industrial production and service activities.

9. Waste classification is the process of distinguishing a material as waste or non-waste, hazardous waste or ordinary waste and determining that waste belongs to a certain type or group of waste for the purpose of classification and management in practice.

10. Waste classification is the actual separation of waste (already classified) into types or groups of waste for different management processes.

11. Waste transportation is the process of transporting waste from the place of generation to the place of treatment, which may include collection, temporary storage (or gathering), waste transfer and waste pre-processing at the collection point or transfer station.

12. Waste reuse is the reuse of waste directly or after preliminary processing without changing the properties of the waste.

13. Waste pre-treatment is the use of purely mechanical and physical technical measures to change physical properties such as size, humidity, temperature to facilitate classification, storage, transportation, reuse, recycling, co-processing, treatment to mix or separate waste components to suit different management processes.

14. Waste recycling is the process of using technological and technical solutions to recover valuable components from waste.

15. Waste energy recovery is the process of recovering energy from the conversion of waste.

16. Waste treatment is the process of using technological and technical solutions (different from pre-processing) to reduce, eliminate, isolate, quarantine, incinerate, destroy, and bury waste and harmful elements in waste.

17. Waste co-processing is the combination of an existing production process to recycle, treat, recover energy from waste in which waste is used as raw materials, alternative fuel or treated.

18. Waste generating facilities are production, business and service establishments that generate waste.

19. Waste source owners are organizations and individuals who own or operate waste generating facilities.

20. Industrial park is the general name for industrial parks, export processing zones, high-tech zones, and industrial clusters.

21. Waste treatment facility is a facility that provides waste treatment services (including recycling, co-processing, and energy recovery from waste).

22. The owner of domestic solid waste collection and transportation is an organization or individual that provides domestic solid waste collection and transportation services according to regulations.

23. Waste treatment owner is the organization or individual that owns or operates a waste treatment facility.

24. A hazardous waste treatment license is a license granted to a hazardous waste treatment owner to perform services of treatment, recycling, co-treatment, and energy recovery from hazardous waste (which may include transportation, transit, storage, and preliminary processing).

25. The carrying capacity of the aquatic environment is the ability to receive additional pollutants while ensuring that the concentration of pollutants does not exceed the limit values specified in environmental technical regulations for the intended use of the receiving source.

26. Wastewater discharge quota is the load limit of each pollutant or parameter in wastewater issued by the state management agency for each wastewater receiving source to ensure that wastewater discharge does not exceed the carrying capacity of the water environment.

27. Industrial emissions inventory is the determination of the flow, nature and characteristics of industrial emissions sources in a specified space and time.

28. Deposit to ensure imported scrap is when organizations and individuals importing scrap pay a sum of money to a designated place to ensure the reduction and remediation of environmental risks caused by scrap import activities.

29. Imported scrap shipment is the quantity of imported scrap with the same HS code (import-export goods classification code) or HS code group registered by the importing organization or individual for one-time inspection for import into Vietnam.