D6
DisposalDisposal code D6
Release into a water body, except seas/oceans
What is disposal code D6?
D6 is a disposal code — one of the standard D (disposal) and R (recovery) codes used to record what happens to a waste at its destination. Disposal (D) codes cover operations that get rid of the waste — landfill, incineration without recovery, and similar. You give the D or R code when you record a waste receipt in Digital Waste Tracking, and on waste returns to your regulator.
Permitted sites record the D/R code for each load they receive. Receipt of Waste and waste returns both use these codes.
Other disposal codes
- D1Deposit into or onto land, e.g. landfill
- D2Land treatment, e.g. biodegradation of liquid or sludgy discards in soils
- D3Deep injection, e.g. injection of pumpable discards into wells, salt domes or naturally occurring repositories
- D4Surface impoundment, e.g. placement of liquid or sludgy discards into pits, ponds or lagoons
- D5Specially engineered landfill, e.g. placement into lined discrete cells which are capped and isolated from one another and the environment
- D7Release into seas/oceans, including sea-bed insertion
- D8Biological treatment resulting in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by any of the operations numbered D1 to D12
- D9Physico-chemical treatment resulting in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by any of the operations numbered D1 to D12, e.g. evaporation, drying, calcination
- D10Incineration on land
- D11Incineration at sea
- D12Permanent storage, e.g. emplacement of containers in a mine
- D13Blending or mixing prior to submission to any of the operations numbered D1 to D12
- D14Repackaging prior to submission to any of the operations numbered D1 to D13
- D15Storage pending any of the operations numbered D1 to D14 (excluding temporary storage, pending collection, on the site where it is produced)