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.
Frequently Confused With
Sub-categories
3 38.31
Incineration without energy recovery
This class includes the disposal and treatment prior to disposal of waste by combustion or thermal treatment without ene
38.32
Landfilling or permanent storage
This class includes the disposal and treatment prior to disposal of non-hazardous or hazardous waste, whether the waste
38.33
Other waste disposal
This class includes: - release of liquid waste to seas/oceans or other water bodies, including seabed insertion - inject
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Data source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) —
UK SIC 2026
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