This guidance is relevant to businesses that produce waste that they send to landfill, and businesses that operate landfill sites.
A landfill site is a waste disposal site where waste is deposited onto or into land.
This includes sites that:
- receive waste from external sources
- are used by waste producers to dispose of their own waste on-site. This includes farm dumps.
It does not normally include sites where waste is:
- intended for disposal, and is stored for less than one year
- intended for recovery or treatment, and is stored for less than three years
- prepared for transport for recovery, treatment or disposal elsewhere.
In this guideline:
