Waste Code Assignment
Use
Laws and regulations assign waste codes to
wastes and stipulate that waste codes have to be output on the disposal documents that are created for the waste. Waste approvals generally only apply to certain waste codes and thus only to wastes with certain properties. You can therefore assign waste codes in Waste Management to the wastes, waste approvals, and disposal documents and thus map standard values from laws and regulations. You can assign the waste codes in various ways (see Features section), with the result that you can also map different standard values from the individual jurisdictions.Prerequisites
You have created the waste codes that you want to assign.
Features
You can assign waste codes as follows:
Wastes with the same properties must be assigned different waste codes in certain cases, for example if wastes are produced in different processes. You can take this into account by assigning several waste codes to the specification of a waste in specification management (see
Waste approvals generally only apply to the generation and disposal of wastes that belong to a certain waste code. Likewise, waste approvals regulate the quantity of this waste that can be generated and disposed of over a certain period of time. You can therefore assign waste codes to the waste approvals and enter the approved waste quantity for each waste code (see
Waste codes can be assigned to a disposal document in various ways (see