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Basel List B codes
Qualifying plastic waste for sound recycling

Use B3011 for qualifying plastic waste for sound recycling as a Basel List B waste without an Annex III hazard.

Plastic waste destined for recycling, almost free of contamination, under the rules in force from 1 January 2021. Non-hazardous.

Is Basel B3011 hazardous waste?

Not from the code alone. Basel B3011 is on Basel List B, so material that matches it is normally outside the Convention's hazardous definition. That changes if Annex I constituents give it an Annex III hazardous characteristic. SOR/2021-25, including its exclusions, decides Canadian federal control.

On a federally regulated international shipment, the applicant enters the waste classification in the waste line of the federal notification in CNMTS. The movement rules and exclusions still apply.

What does Basel B3011 cover?

Since 1 January 2021 this covers the plastic categories below, but only when they go for environmentally sound R3 recycling and are almost free of contamination and other waste. International or national specifications may guide what “almost free” means. One temporary-storage step is allowed if R3 follows and a contract or official document proves it.

Official wording: Read the official entry
Rule: SOR/2021-25

Is plastic waste for recycling Basel B3011?

Code	When it fits
B3011	Plastic that meets the composition limits, goes to documented environmentally sound R3 recycling, and is almost free of contamination and other waste.

List B is conditional. It isn't an exemption label. If the material has an Annex III hazardous characteristic, or meets another Canadian or foreign hazardous-waste definition, classify the actual hazard and follow the movement rules that control.

What are the conditions for Basel B3011?

Eligible material is almost entirely one non-halogenated polymer. These include PE, PP, PS, ABS, PET, PC and polyethers. It can also be one thermoset or condensation resin, such as urea-, phenol- or melamine-formaldehyde, epoxy or alkyd resin. Or it can be one listed fluorinated polymer, which means FEP, MFA, PFA, PVF or PVDF. Post-consumer fluorinated-polymer waste is excluded.

A mixture of only PE, PP and/or PET also qualifies if each polymer will be recycled separately after prior sorting under R3. Any storage must be one documented step followed by R3. The process must be environmentally sound, and contamination or other waste must be nearly absent. Specifications, international or national, can help define “almost entirely”. Related entries are Y48 and A3210.

Which codes sit beside Basel B3011?

Code	What it is
B2100	Aluminum hydrate, alumina and production residue
B2110	pH-moderated bauxite residue
B2120	Non-hazardous solution between pH 2 and 11.5
B2130	Tar-free road asphalt waste
B3020	Qualifying paper and paperboard waste
B3026	Composite liquid-packaging pre-treatment fractions
B3027	Discarded self-stick label laminate
B3030	Specified separated textile waste