SCIAN 562212—Treatment and final disposal of hazardous waste by the public sector

Where 562212 sits

1. 56 Business support services and waste managementt, and remediation services
2. 562 Waste managementt and remediation services
3. 5622 Treatment and final disposal of waste
4. 56221 Treatment and final disposal of hazardous waste
5. 562212 Treatment and final disposal of hazardous waste by the public sector

Description

Public sector economic units primarily engaged in the treatment of hazardous waste through biological, chemical or physical procedures to reduce, eliminate or transform waste, and final disposal of hazardous waste through controlled containment, containment in stable geological formations or in containers on land and other methods.

What 562212 includes

• Confinement in stable geological formations of the public sector, disposal of hazardous waste in

Example activities

• oils, fats, mixtures and oily waste, treatment by the public sector
• used batteries, treatment by the public sector
• polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbs), treatment by the public sector
• controlled confinements of the public sector, disposal of hazardous waste in
• public sector aboveground containers, hazardous waste disposal in
• used tires, treatment by the public sector
• sludge, solutions and inorganic or heavy metal waste, treatment by the public sector
• pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, treatment by the public sector
• biological-infectious hazardous waste, treatment by the public sector
• hazardous waste, containment by the public sector
• hazardous waste, disposal by the public sector
• hazardous waste, incineration by the public sector
• hazardous waste, treatment by the public sector
• organic solvents, distillation solutions and bottoms, treatment by the public sector

Cross-references for 562212

• Public sector economic units mainly engaged in wastewater treatment (221312, Collection, treatment and supply of water carried out by the public sector), and in the treatment and final disposal of non-hazardous waste (562222, Treatment and final disposal of non-hazardous waste by the public sector).

562212 in other systems