Recovery and Disposal Codes (R/D)

Use principally as a fuel or other means to generate energy

Solvent reclamation/regeneration

Recycling/reclamation of organic substances which are not used as solvents (including composting and other biological transformation processes)

Recycling/reclamation of metals and metal compounds

Recycling/reclamation of other inorganic materials

Regeneration of acids or bases

Recovery of components used for pollution abatement

Recovery of components from catalysts

Oil re-refining or other reuses of oil

Land treatment resulting in benefit to agriculture or ecological improvement

Use of wastes obtained from any of the operations numbered R1 to R10

Exchange of wastes for submission to any of the operations numbered R1 to R11

Storage of wastes pending any of the operations numbered R1 to R12 (excluding temporary storage, pending collection, on the site where it is produced)

Deposit into or onto land, e.g. landfill

Land treatment, e.g. biodegradation of liquid or sludgy discards in soils

Deep injection, e.g. injection of pumpable discards into wells, salt domes or naturally occurring repositories

Surface impoundment, e.g. placement of liquid or sludgy discards into pits, ponds or lagoons

Specially engineered landfill, e.g. placement into lined discrete cells which are capped and isolated from one another and the environment

Release into a water body, except seas/oceans

Release into seas/oceans, including sea-bed insertion

Biological treatment resulting in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by any of the operations numbered D1 to D12

Physico-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

Incineration on land

Incineration at sea

Permanent storage, e.g. emplacement of containers in a mine

Blending or mixing prior to submission to any of the operations numbered D1 to D12

Repackaging prior to submission to any of the operations numbered D1 to D13

Storage pending any of the operations numbered D1 to D14 (excluding temporary storage, pending collection, on the site where it is produced)