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38.3
Group
Waste disposal without recovery
SDMX: E383
Group Level
3 Depth
3 Children
2 Siblings
📋 Official Classification Notes

✓ Includes

This group includes waste disposal of both non-hazardous and hazardous waste. Included are thermal treatment without energy recovery, landfilling, release in bodies of water and permanent storage of waste. Treatment prior to disposal of various forms of waste by different means (for example, the treatment of organic waste with the aim of disposal; the treatment and disposal of toxic live or dead animals and other contaminated waste; the treatment and disposal of transitional radioactive waste from hospitals, etc.) are also included.

+ Also Includes

This group also includes burial or ploughing under of refuse; disposal of used goods to eliminate harmful waste.

✗ Excludes

This group excludes: - treatment and disposal of wastewater, see 37.00 - waste recovery, see 38.2
Data source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) — UK SIC 2026
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