Final placement or destruction of toxic, radioactive, or other wastes; surplus or banned pesticides or other chemicals; polluted soils; and drums containing hazardous materials from removal actions or accidental releases. Disposal may be accomplished through use of approved secure landfills, surface impoundments, land farming, deep-well injection, ocean dumping, or incineration.
Description: Disposal is any operation specified in Annex IV to this Convention. Annex IV: Operations which do not lead to the possibility of resource recovery, recycling, reclamation, direct reuse or alternative uses. Source: Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
Description: Disposal means the processing or destruction of [waste oils] as well as their storage and tipping above or under ground. Source: Council Directive of 22 December 1986 amending Directive 75/439/EEC on the Disposal of Waste Oils
Description: Disposal means the emplacement of [waste] in a repository, or at a given location, without the intention of retrieval. Source: IAEA Code of Practice on the International Transboundary Movement of Radioactive Waste
