EWC code for wood 17 02 01 for clean building timber, 17 02 04* if it’s treated with something hazardous.
- Free, no account
- Based on the UK List of Waste and GOV.UK guidance
- Nothing is stored
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Wood: 3 codes.
Wood
Only use a not-hazardous code if an assessment shows the waste isn’t hazardous. If you can’t tell, use the hazardous one.
Not hazardousConstruction and demolition
Wood from building or demolition work
HazardousConstruction and demolition
Wood, glass or plastic contaminated with hazardous substances
If it isn’t hazardous: , or .
Not hazardousPackaging
Pallets, crates and other wooden packaging
30 more codes in the full list mention “Wood”
HazardousHousehold-type, collected separately
Wood containing hazardous substances
If it isn’t hazardous: .
Not hazardousHousehold-type, collected separately
Wood
If it’s hazardous: .
HazardousWood processing and furniture
Sawdust, shavings, cuttings, wood, particle board and veneer containing hazardous substances
If it isn’t hazardous: .
Not hazardousWood processing and furniture
Sawdust, shavings, cuttings, wood, particle board and veneer
If it’s hazardous: .
HazardousWood preservation
Non-halogenated organic wood preservatives
HazardousWood preservation
Organochlorinated wood preservatives
HazardousWood preservation
Organometallic wood preservatives
HazardousWood preservation
Inorganic wood preservatives
Is waste wood 17 02 01 or 17 02 04*?
GOV.UK lists untreated wood from building and demolition work as 17 02 01, and treated wood containing hazardous substances as 17 02 04*. The two are a pair. To use 17 02 01 you need an assessment, or good evidence of what the wood is, showing it isn’t hazardous. If you can’t find out what’s in it, use 17 02 04*. Treated wood only takes the hazardous code when the treatment has left hazardous substances in it.
EWC code for pallets, joinery offcuts and household wood
| Wood | Code |
|---|---|
| Pallets and crates | 15 01 03 |
| Offcuts, sawdust and board from a joinery or panel works | 03 01 05 or 03 01 04* |
| Household-type wood, collected separately | 20 01 38 or 20 01 37* |
Pallets are packaging, so they never take 17 02 01: see wooden pallets. Where two codes are given, the one with the asterisk is for wood containing hazardous substances.
Does wood in a mixed skip need its own code?
Only if it can be picked out as a separate waste. Then each waste in the skip gets its own code, on its own line of the note. The regulators’ own example is a lead acid battery in a skip of demolition wood: 16 06 01* for the battery, and 17 02 01 for the wood only if the battery hasn’t contaminated it. Building waste that can’t be told apart is 17 09 04.