reverted:
--- b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/DependencyInjection/ContainerBuilder.php
+++ a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/DependencyInjection/ContainerBuilder.php
@@ -24,7 +24,5 @@
     // functions. This default is overridden by drupal_language_initialize()
     // during language negotiation.
     $this->register(LANGUAGE_TYPE_INTERFACE, 'Drupal\\Core\\Language\\Language');
-
-    $this->register('image.effect', 'Drupal\image\Effect');
   }
 }
diff -u b/core/modules/image/image.module b/core/modules/image/image.module
--- b/core/modules/image/image.module
+++ b/core/modules/image/image.module
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
 use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\StreamedResponse;
+use Drupal\image\Effect;
 
 /**
  * Image style constant for user presets in the database.
@@ -931,7 +932,11 @@
  * @see image_effect_definition_load()
  */
 function image_effect_definitions() {
-  return drupal_container()->get('image.effect')->getPluginDefinitions();
+  // @todo Rather than hard-coding the plugin type class, register this with
+  //   Drupal's dependency injection container once it supports compilable
+  //   registration of module classes.
+  $plugin_type = new Effect();
+  return $plugin_type->getPluginDefinitions();
 }
 
 /**
@@ -957,7 +962,11 @@
  *     one-line summary of the effect. Does not include the "theme_" prefix.
  */
 function image_effect_definition_load($effect) {
-  return drupal_container()->get('image.effect')->getPluginDefinition($effect);
+  // @todo Rather than hard-coding the plugin type class, register this with
+  //   Drupal's dependency injection container once it supports compilable
+  //   registration of module classes.
+  $plugin_type = new Effect();
+  return $plugin_type->getPluginDefinition($effect);
 }
 
 /**