Part II WASTE DISPOSAL OPERATIONSF1
N.B. This Part of this Schedule is intended to list disposal operations such as they occur in practice. F2All waste must be disposed of without endangering human health and without harming the environment.
| *Operation Code | Description |
|---|---|
| D1 | Deposit into or onto land (e.g. landfill etc.). |
| D2 | Land treatment (e.g. biodegradation of liquid or sludge discards in soils, etc.). |
| D3 | Deep injection (e.g. injection of pumpable discards into wells, salt domes or naturally occurring repositories, etc.). |
| D4 | Surface impoundment (e.g. placement of liquid or sludgy discards into pits, ponds or lagoons, etc.). |
| D5 | Specially engineered landfill (e.g. placement into lined discrete cells which are capped and isolated from one another and the environment, etc.). |
| D6 | Release into a water body except seas/oceans. |
| D7 | Release to seas/oceans including sea-bed insertion. |
| D8 | Biological treatment not specified elsewhere in this Part of this Schedule which results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations numbered D1 to D12. |
| D9 | Physico-chemical treatment not specified elsewhere in this Part of this Schedule which results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations numbered D1 to D12 (e.g. evaporation, drying, calcination, etc.). |
| D10 | Incineration on land. |
| D11 | Incineration at sea.* *This operation is prohibited by F3F4assimilated law and international conventions. |
| D12 | Permanent storage (e.g. emplacement of containers in a mine, etc.). |
| D13 | Blending or mixing prior to submission to any of the operations numbered D1 to D12 * *If there is no other D code appropriate, this can include preliminary operations prior to disposal, including pre-processing such as sorting, crushing, compacting, pelletising, drying, shredding, conditioning or separating prior to submission to any of the operations numbered D1 to D12. |
| D14 | Repackaging prior to submission to any of the operations numbered D1 to D13. |
| D15 | Storage pending any of the operations numbered D1 to D14, (excluding temporary storage, pending collection, on the site where the waste is produced.* * Temporary storage means preliminary storage according to point (10) of Article 3 |
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Sch. 3 substituted (8.4.2011) by The Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/127), regs. 1(1), 40 (with reg. 9(2))
- F2
Word in Sch. 3 Pt. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Protection (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/289), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 3(13)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
- F3
Words in Sch. 3 Pt. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Protection (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/289), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 3(13)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
- F4
Word in Sch. 3 Pt.2 substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 10 para. 2(d)