Landfilling or permanent storage

This class includes the disposal and treatment prior to disposal of non-hazardous or hazardous waste, whether the waste is solid or not, onto or into land (i.e. underground), or in permanent waste storage facilities or sites.

This class includes:

• operation of landfills for the disposal of waste
• treatment of organic waste for landfilling or permanent storage
• disposal of by-products of animal origin in landfills

This class also includes:

• permanent underground storage of waste in a deep geological cavity (e.g. in salt or potassium mines)
• storage of captured carbon dioxide

This class excludes:

• operation of facilities where waste is unloaded for further transport, see 38.1
• operation of facilities where recoverable materials are sorted, see 38.21
• decontamination, cleaning up land, water and toxic material abatement, see 39.00