Section 2: Interpretation In

these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires "Act" means the National Environment Act, 2019; "after-care" means measures that are necessary to be taken in relation to a waste management facility for the purposes of preventing harm to human health or the environment, following cessation of operations and decommissioning of a facility; "Authority" means the National Environment Management Authority established under the Act; "authorised officer" means an officer of the Authority or any other person authorised to act on behalf of the Authority under the Act; "Board" means the Board of the Authority appointed under the Act; "co-generation plant" means any stationary or mobile plant in which waste is treated by thermal means for the purpose of disposal and for generation of energy; "currency point" has the value assigned to it in Schedule 1 of these Regulations; "disposal" means any operation related to waste management which is not a recovery operation even where the operation has as a secondary consequence the extraction of substances or energy; "domestic waste" means waste generated from households; "electrical or electronic equipment" means equipment which is dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields in order to function properly, as well as equipment for the generation, transfer, distribution and measurement of the currents and fields, including the components necessary for the cooling, heating and protection of the electrical or electronic equipment; "electrical or electronic waste" means waste from electrical or electronic equipment or any part of the equipment, including equipment that is old, obsolete, has reached end-of-life or has ceased to be of any value to its owner; "environmental and social assessment" means a procedure that ensures that the environmental and social impacts, risks or other concerns of a given project are taken into account in approving a project for implementation; "environmental standards" means standards produced or adopted by the Authority in consultation with the Uganda National Bureau of Standards for use in Uganda; "extended producer responsibility" means the responsibility of a producer for the entire life cycle of the product, including responsibility for take back, recycling and final disposal of the product; "hazardous waste" means waste classified, characterised and categorised as hazardous waste in accordance with Schedule 2, Schedule 3 and Schedule 4 to these Regulations; "healthcare waste" means hazardous or non-hazardous waste from medical or veterinary treatment and associated tutoring, research and laboratory facilities, and similar waste originating from other sources; "incineration" means thermal treatment of waste with or without recovery of the combustion heat generated, including through oxidisation of carbon or material containing carbon into carbon dioxide and water, as well as other thermal treatment processes including pyrolysis, gasification or plasma processes when the substances resulting from this treatment are subsequently oxidised; "incineration residue" means any material generated through the operation of an incineration plant or co-generation plant, and defined as waste, including bottom ash and slag, fly and boiler ash, solid reaction products from gas treatment, spent catalysts and spent activated carbon; "industrial waste" means waste produced by industrial activity and includes any material that is rendered useless during a manufacturing process; "landfill" means an engineered site for disposal of waste onto or into land, lined with impervious plastic sheeting to prevent leakage or leaching of dangerous substances into soil or water; "lead agency" means any ministry, department, agency, local government or public officer in which or in whom the functions of control or management of any segment of the environment is vested; "local government" means a local government established under the Local Governments Act; "municipal waste" means waste, excluding industrial waste, collected within a local government; "plastic carrier bags" means sacks and carrier bags made of polythene or other synthetic polymers for the conveyance and packaging of goods; "product steward" means a person or agent of such person responsible for the importation, manufacture, distribution or sale of a product that becomes waste or results in waste; "recovery" means any operation the principal result of which is- (a) waste serving a useful purpose by replacing other materials which would otherwise have been used to fulfil a particular function; or (b) waste being prepared to fulfil that function, in the plant or in the wider economy; "recycling" means any recovery operation by which waste materials are re-processed into products, materials or substances whether for the original or other purposes, and includes the reprocessing of organic material; "re-use" means any operation by which products or components that are not waste are used again for the same purpose for which they were intended; "transboundary movement of waste" means any movement of hazardous waste or other waste from another country to or through Uganda or from Uganda to another country; "vessel" means motor vehicle, ship, aircraft or other mode of transport; "waste" means any substance or object which is dumped, abandoned, discarded or disposed of or intended or required by law to be disposed of; "waste handler" means a person licensed by the Authority under these Regulations to collect, transport, store, treat or dispose of waste; "waste management" means activities relating to the collection, transportation, storage, treatment and disposal of waste, including the management of waste at source and during decommissioning of waste management facilities; "waste management facility" means a plant, site, structure and associated facilities or infrastructure used in the management of waste.