The Waste Management Licensing (Scotland) Regulations 2011

NB. This Part of this Schedule is intended to list disposal operations such as they occur in practice. [F1 Waste] must be disposed of without endangering human health and without the use of processes or methods likely to harm the environment.

1 The operations listed in this Part of this Schedule are listed in accordance with Annex I of the Directive.
1Operation 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 sludge 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 into seas/oceans including sea-bed insertion.
D8	Biological treatment not listed elsewhere in this Part of this Schedule which results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations listed as D1 to D12 in this Part of this Schedule.
D9	Physico-chemical treatment not listed elsewhere in this Part of this Schedule which results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations listed as D1 to D12 in this Part of this Schedule (e.g. evaporation drying, calcination, etc.).
D10	Incineration on land.
D11	Incineration at sea.
D12	Permanent storage (emplacement of containers in a mine, etc.).
D13	Blending or mixing of waste prior to submission to any of the operations listed as D1 to D12 in this Part of this Schedule. If there is no other D code appropriate, this may 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 operations D1 to D12.
D14	Repackaging of waste prior to submission to any of the operations listed as D1 to D13 in this Part of this Schedule.
D15	Storage of waste pending any of the operations listed as D1 to D14 in this Part of this Schedule, but excluding preliminary storage referred to in Article 3(10) of the Directive, pending collection, on the site where the waste is produced.

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in sch. 4 Pt. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/26), regs. 1, 11(8)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)