European Waste Catalogue
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
Have a 15 01 01 stream? See the dossier that replaces the feasibility study.
See the validation dossier~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.
Simulate this streamThe European Waste Catalogue codes waste by the process it arises from, not just the material. Pick the row that matches where your cardboard is generated — each code links to its full classification, valorisation routes and receiving industries.
Packaging waste (commercial / industrial)
Paper and cardboard packaging
The default for baled OCC from retail, logistics and manufacturing
Municipal / household separate collection
Paper and cardboard
Paper & cardboard recycling rejects
Wastes from sorting of paper and cardboard destined for recycling
Source: EUR-Lex Commission Decision 2000/532/EC — European Waste Catalogue
Looking to sell or source cardboard?
Market context, buyer industries and valorisation routes for this stream.
Cardboard
With a lab analysis, the engine checks the stream against each receiving route's published limits and returns what is supported, what is refused, and why. Without one yet, we tell you which routes it can evaluate and what analysis that needs.
See what the output looks like: a worked dossier.