As landfill capacity in domestic landfills has reached the limit, social problems relevant waste treatment such as conflicts among local governments have been expanded. Although it is necessary to secure additional landfill facilities for the lack of landfill facilities in Korea, it has gone through difficulties due to NIMBY syndromes. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the amount of waste landfilled. Responding to the problems, the Korean government established ‘Act to promote the transition to the Resource Recycling Society’ to reduce landfill of recoverable resources to 0% while pushing ahead with ‘Landfill Zero Policy’ to decrease the landfill rate to less than 3% by 2020. To realize ‘Landfill Zero Policy’, the legal landfill criteria for untreated waste is necessary. EU established Landfill Directive 2003/33/EC to suggest the detailed criteria for landfill ban by waste source. Especially, Germany with the strictest regulations bans on landfill of unclassified waste and waste which should be separately collected for recycle and reuse and has various criteria such as TOC, calorific value, heavy metal and toxic substance content by leaching test, etc. In this study, TOC as an entrance criteria of municipal solid waste into landfill compared with a landfill criteria of Germany and EU.