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Commission notice on technical guidance on the classification of waste · European Union

A plastic material is an organic solid, essentially composed by a mixture of a polymer or combination of polymers of high molecular mass with other substances such as additives, stabilisers, fillers, etc. A polymer is a chain of many repeating molecular units of monomers. The monomers of plastic are either natural or synthetic organic compounds. The term resin is sometimes used as synonym of a commercial polymer (31).

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