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.
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 plastic packaging is generated — each code links to its full classification, valorisation routes and receiving industries.
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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Market context, buyer industries and valorisation routes for this stream.
Plastic Packaging
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.