44In particular, Article 4(1) of Directive 2008/98, which establishes the waste hierarchy as it should be applied in waste prevention and management legislation and policy, does not support the inference that priority must be accorded to a system which permits waste producers to dispose of that waste independently. On the contrary, waste disposal is placed last in that order of precedence.
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