Hazardous waste
Hazardous waste includes batteries, accumulators, motor oils, chemicals, varnishes and paints, medicines, construction waste containing asbestos, heavy metals such as mercury from a broken thermometer.
According to the definition in the Law on Sustainable Waste Management, hazardous waste is all waste that has one or more of the following properties: explosiveness, oxidizing property, flammability, irritability harmful to the organism, toxicity, carcinogenicity, corrosion property, infectivity, teratogenicity (toxicity for reproduction) mutagenicity, toxic gas release properties, ecotoxicity, toxic gas release properties by chemical reaction or biodegradation.
Contrary to hazardous waste, inert waste does not endanger the environment, since it does not contain or contain very little environmentaly harmful substances.