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European Waste Catalogue

EWC Code for Cardboard

Most common code15 01 01

Cardboard from commercial or industrial packaging is coded 15 01 01. Cardboard collected in municipal or household streams takes 20 01 01, and rejects from paper recycling plants take 03 03 08.

Also searched as: corrugated cardboard, OCC, cardboard boxes, carton

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PrimaryMaterial Recovery Facility (MRF) Sorting
PrimaryClosed-Loop Reprocessing
SecondaryEnergy Recovery (Residual / Rejects)

~84 Mt/year packaging placed on EU market; ~50 Mt/year collected for recycling · €0–350/tonne (clean recyclate grade)

Primary buyers include Recovery of sorted materials and Manufacture of plastic packaging goods.

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