# The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018, Paragraph 2: Interpretation: landfill


(1) For the purposes of these Regulations, a landfill is a waste disposal site for the deposit of waste onto or into land.
(2) “Landfill” includes—
(a) any site which is used for more than a year for the temporary storage of waste, except in the cases described in sub-paragraph (3),
(b) any internal waste disposal site.
(3) “Landfill” does not include—
(a) any facility where waste is unloaded in order to permit its preparation for further transport for recovery, treatment or disposal elsewhere,
(b) any site where waste is stored as a general rule for a period of less than three years prior to recovery or treatment,
(c) any site where waste is stored prior to disposal for a period of less than one year,
(d) any waste disposal site which finally ceased to accept waste for disposal before 16 July 2001,
(e) the use of suitable inert waste for redevelopment, restoration and filling-in work or for construction purposes,
(f) the deposit of—
(i) non-hazardous dredging sludges or sediment on or alongside the bank or towpath of a river, burn or ditch from which they have been dredged,
(ii) non-hazardous sludges in surface water, including the bed and its sub-soil.
(4) In sub-paragraph (2) “internal waste disposal site” means a site where a producer of waste is carrying out its own waste disposal at the place of production.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/219/schedule/13/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018/schedule-13/paragraph-2
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