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Plastic buckets filled with paints, chemicals, or sauces altering the properties of the container: Residues or odours may render challenging the re-use of reusable packaging formats for the transport of such products. Removing such residues or odours from the interior of the used bucket is technically feasible. However, in certain cases, and depending on the type of the packed product, the removal of residues might require intense cleaning in terms of chemicals, water or energy use. This would make the re-use of the plastic buckets a feasible option only if the intense cleaning processes do not result in disproportionate costs and resources.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.