383200 Landfilling or permanent storage

This type 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 type 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 type 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 type excludes:

• operation of facilities where waste is unloaded for further transport, see 381

• operation of facilities where recoverable materials are sorted, see 382100

• decontamination, cleaning up land, water and toxic material abatement, see 390000