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38 codes · 1 hazardous

Wastes from agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, forestry, hunting and fishing, food preparation and processing

Chapter 02 covers wastes from farming, fishing and food production, including sludges and washings from those processes. It is not the code for packaged food thrown away by a shop or office. That is usually chapter 20.

Confirm the code in WM3 and on legislation.gov.uk. How to choose an EWC code. Digital waste tracking.

02 01

wastes from agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, forestry, hunting and fishing

02 02

wastes from the preparation and processing of meat, fish and other foods of animal origin

02 03

wastes from fruit, vegetables, cereals, edible oils, cocoa, coffee, tea and tobacco preparation and processing; conserve production; yeast and yeast extract production, molasses preparation and fermentation

02 04

wastes from sugar processing

02 05

wastes from the dairy products industry

02 06

wastes from the baking and confectionery industry

02 07

wastes from the production of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages (except coffee, tea and cocoa)

Digital waste tracking

Receiving sites must report this code to DWTS.

Permitted receiving sites in England and Wales report each inbound load to the Digital Waste Tracking Service, and the EWC code is part of that record. WEEE Manager is listed on GOV.UK and sends the code with the rest of the receipt through the API.

Digital waste tracking

All EWC chapters

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Confirm the code in WM3 and on legislation.gov.uk before you report it.

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