EWC Code
15 01 06 mixed packaging
This is a code under chapter 15 01 — Packaging (including separately collected municipal packaging waste) of the UK European Waste Catalogue, used on waste transfer notes to classify the type of waste being transferred.
15 01 06 covers packaging waste collected as a mixture rather than separated into its materials: cardboard with shrink-wrap, plastic strapping, tins and glass going into one stream because a single container is what the site has room for. The chapter it sits in is about the packaging itself, whatever the product inside it was.
The distinction that matters here is not what the packaging is made of but what was in it. Packaging holding residues of hazardous substances, or contaminated by them, is 15 01 10 — a hazardous entry — and that is decided by the contents, not by the material.
Where this waste usually comes from
- Retail and warehouse back-of-house collections
- Manufacturing and distribution inbound packaging
- Commercial premises with a single mixed recycling stream
The common mistake with 15 01 06
Coding commercial packaging waste to a chapter 20 municipal code because it was collected in a general bin. Packaging has its own chapter, and using it is what keeps the load in a packaging recycling route.
- Code
- 15 01 06
- Chapter
- 15 01
- Description
- mixed packaging
- Chapter description
- Packaging (including separately collected municipal packaging waste)
- Entry type
- Absolute non-hazardous
- Classification
- Non-hazardous. A standard Waste Transfer Note is required under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011.
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Compliance & guidance
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Other codes in chapter 15 01
Packaging (including separately collected municipal packaging waste)
- 15 01 01paper and cardboard packaging
- 15 01 02plastic packaging
- 15 01 03wooden packaging
- 15 01 04metallic packaging
- 15 01 05composite packaging
- 15 01 07glass packaging
- 15 01 09textile packaging
- 15 01 10packaging containing residues of or contaminated by hazardous substanceshazardous
- 15 01 11metallic packaging containing a hazardous solid porous matrix (for example asbestos), including empty pressure containershazardous