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European Waste Catalogue

EWC Code for Leather Waste

Most common code04 01 08

Tanned leather waste — shavings, cuttings, buffing dust — is 04 01 08. Untanned hide waste (fleshings, lime split) is 04 01 01.

Also searched as: leather offcuts, tannery waste, hide waste

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PrimaryChrome recovery and protein valorisation
SecondaryRendering and biogas
BackstopPermitted landfill (chrome residues)

~2 Mt/year EU leather industry residues (hides, sludge, chemicals) · Chrome shavings €20–60/t; tallow/fat from liming €200–400/t; leather scrap for gelatine €40–80/t

Primary buyers include Manufacture of leather and related products and Manufacture of basic chemicals and Waste treatment and disposal.

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The European Waste Catalogue codes waste by the process it arises from, not just the material. Pick the row that matches where your leather waste is generated — each code links to its full classification, valorisation routes and receiving industries.

Source: EUR-Lex Commission Decision 2000/532/EC — European Waste Catalogue

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