{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-scotland-regulations-2003/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-scotland-regulations-2003/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2003/208",
  "legislation_title": "The Landfill (Scotland) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-scotland-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Waste which may be accepted in the different classes of landfill",
  "text": "(1) The operator of a landfill shall ensure that the landfill is only used for landfilling waste which is subject to prior treatment unless–\n(a) it is inert waste for which treatment is not technically feasible; or\n(b) it is waste other than inert waste and treatment would not reduce its quantity or the hazards which it poses to human health or the environment.\n(2) The operator of a landfill for hazardous waste shall ensure that only waste which fulfils the waste acceptance criteria in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 2 is accepted at the landfill.\n(3) The operator of a landfill for non-hazardous waste shall ensure that the landfill is only used for landfilling–\n(a) municipal waste;\n(b) non-hazardous waste of any other origin which fulfils the waste acceptance criteria in paragraphs 1 and 3(b) of Schedule 2; and\n(c) stable, non-reactive hazardous waste (such as that which is solidified with leaching behaviour equivalent to that of non-hazardous waste referred to in sub-paragraph (b)) and which fulfils the waste acceptance criteria in paragraphs 1 and 3(a) of Schedule 2.\n(4) Where hazardous waste of the type described in paragraph (3)(c) is disposed of at a landfill for non-hazardous waste, the operator shall ensure it is not deposited in cells used or intended to be used for the disposal of biodegradable non-hazardous waste.\n(5) The operator of a landfill for inert waste shall ensure that the landfill is only used for landfilling inert waste which meets the waste acceptance criteria in paragraphs 1 and 4 of Schedule 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/208/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:36:52.309976+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}