European Waste Catalogue
Clean metallic packaging — cans, tins, drums — is 15 01 04. Drums or containers with hazardous residues must be coded 15 01 10 instead.
Also searched as: tins, cans, steel drums, aluminium cans
Have a 15 01 04 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.
Get your full stream analysisThe European Waste Catalogue codes waste by the process it arises from, not just the material. Pick the row that matches where your metal packaging is generated — each code links to its full classification, valorisation routes and receiving industries.
Clean metallic packaging
Metallic packaging
Packaging containing hazardous residues
Packaging containing residues of or contaminated by dangerous substances
Un-triple-rinsed chemical drums and IBCs sit here
Municipal metals
Metals
Source: EUR-Lex Commission Decision 2000/532/EC — European Waste Catalogue
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Recovery tiers only. For numbers that survive a technical review, see the validation dossier.