European Waste Catalogue
Plastic packaging — film, bottles, crates — from commercial sources is 15 01 02. Municipal plastics take 20 01 39 and production offcuts from plastics converting take 07 02 13.
Also searched as: plastic wrap, shrink wrap, plastic bags, PET bottles
Have a 15 01 02 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.
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Packaging waste (commercial / industrial)
Plastic packaging
Municipal separate collection
Plastics
Plastics manufacturing / converting scrap
Waste plastic from manufacture
Source: EUR-Lex Commission Decision 2000/532/EC — European Waste Catalogue
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