Aspects to be considered for waste classification

Plastic materials usually contain not only plastic polymers but a variety of different additives in the plastic matrix to improve performance and use application or processing properties of the final product. Additives are a different group of special chemicals which are either incorporated into the plastic matrix prior or during processing or applied to the final products' surface after the processing (34). A specific plastic waste which can be allocated to a mirror entry can be hazardous either because of the additives it contains or because the waste is contaminated with hazardous substances e.g. oils or solvents. Typically relevant additives in plastic waste are for example stabilisers or pigments (e.g. cadmium, chromium, lead or tin compounds, BPA, nonylphenol compounds) flame retardants (SCCPs, MCCPs, PBDEs, HBCD, etc.), plasticisers (phthalates, SCCPs, MCCPs, etc.) and a variety of other possibly contained additives (35). Note that waste code 15 01 10* can be either hazardous because (1) the packaging is hazardous if it contains (usually non-plastic) residues of hazardous substances OR because (2) the plastic material itself (of which the packaging is manufactured) contains hazardous substances (see also example on packaging waste in Section 1.3.1 above).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07