waste disposal operations

Annex IIA of Directive 91/156/EEC amending Directive 75/442/EEC on waste, is intended to list disposal operations such as they occur in practice:D1 Tipping above or underground (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 occuring 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 of solid waste into a water body except seas/oceans D7 Release into seas/oceans including seabed insertion D8 Biological treatment not specified elsewhere in this Annex which results in final compounds or mixtures which are disposed of by means of any of the operations in this Annex D9 Physico-chemical treatment not specified elsewhere in this Annex which results in final compounds or mixtures which are disposed of by means of any of the operations in this Annex (e.g. evaporation, drying, calcination, etc.) D10 Incineration on land D11 Incineration at sea D12 Permanent storage (e.g. emplacement of containers in a mine, etc.) D13 Blending or mixture prior to submission to any of the operations in this Annex D14 Repackaging prior to submission to any of the operations in this Annex D15 Storage pending any of the operations in this Annex, excluding temporary storage, pending collection, on the site where it is produced.
Source: European Environment Agency – EEA