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Definition sheet with explanations

Product group no. Product group Product no. Product
21-000 Textiles, shoes, leather goods 21-000-0050 Yarns
Product description
Linear formations spun from fibres and threads made of natural, synthetic polymers and non-polymer raw materials
Product in detail Not classified here
Sewing threads
Rug yarns
Knitting yarns
Kitchen twine, cooking string, butcher’s string
Industrial yarn
Yarns for the production of ropes
Weaving yarns
Other yarns
23-000-0070 Sports equipment, recreational equipment and accessories 
  Baling twines (agriculture) (not included in the catalogue) 
  butcher's twines (not included in the catalogue) 
   
   
   
   
   
Explanation
Retail packaging and grouped packaging for yarns in lengths of 7,800 metres or less are subject to system participation because they typically accumulate as waste with private final consumers – i.e. private households and comparable sources of waste generation (within the meaning of section 3 (11) VerpackG). Comparable sources of waste generation include in particular tailors for alteration, interior furnishing sewing businesses and clothing, textile and leather businesses (e.g. furriers) whose packaging waste can be collected at the rate that is normally associated with private households in waste bins that do not exceed 1,100 litres ('volume criterion').

Shipment packaging for yarns of all kinds typically accumulates as waste with private final consumers – i.e. private households and comparable sources of waste generation and, as such, is subject to system participation.
Specials
Industrial yarn refers to specific yarns used in industrial manufacturing.

Brief system participation requirement overview - Product: 21-000-0050 // Yarns

Packaging material
Packaging material

Abbreviations:

PPC stands for paper, paperboard or cardboard.
PET stands for polyethylene terephthalate (a type of plastic).
PE stands for polyethylene (a type of plastic).

Composite packaging is packaging made from at least two material types that cannot be separated by hand.

 		Shape/form
Shape/form

This section shows the typical packaging types for the product group under consideration.

IBC is the abbreviation for intermediate bulk container. An IBC is a large, cuboid container for liquid and free-flowing materials.

An octabin is an octagonal container used to transport and store bulk materials.

 		Delineation criterion
Delineation criterion

Criterion that relates to a specific product and determines whether the shipment, retail or grouped packaging in question is subject to system participation.

For food packaging, that delineation criterion often is quantity. For packaging filled with other products, the delineation criterion tends to be the number/volume or unit of the individual products contained in the packaging. Depending on the product, other criteria may be used within the scope of an overall market assessment to delineate or determine whether the system participation requirement applies to a packaging, such as the stress class in the case of laminate products.

 		System participation requirement
Retail packaging
All types All types ≤ 7800 m yes
All types All types > 7800 m no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Blister packs ≤ 7800 m yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Cores, spools ≤ 7800 m yes
Plastic Banderoles, bags, wrappings, reels ≤ 7800 m yes
Plastic Blister packs ≤ 7800 m yes
Shipment packaging (retail packaging) and grouped packaging
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Folding boxes, outer boxes made of cardboard > 7800 m no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Folding boxes, outer boxes made of cardboard ≤ 7800 m yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Shipment packaging All types yes
Plastic Shipment packaging All types yes

Detailed system participation requirement overview - Product: 21-000-0050 // Yarns

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Packaging material
Packaging material

Abbreviations:

PPC stands for paper, paperboard or cardboard.
PET stands for polyethylene terephthalate (a type of plastic).
PE stands for polyethylene (a type of plastic).

Composite packaging is packaging made from at least two material types that cannot be separated by hand.

 		Shape/form
Shape/form

This section shows the typical packaging types for the product group under consideration.

IBC is the abbreviation for intermediate bulk container. An IBC is a large, cuboid container for liquid and free-flowing materials.

An octabin is an octagonal container used to transport and store bulk materials.

 		Quantity/volume
exemplary listing 		System participation requirement
Retail packaging
All types All types ≤ 7800 m yes
All types All types > 7800 m no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Blister packs 5 x 100 m yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Blister packs 500 m yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Cores 20 m yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Cores 30 m - 200 m yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Spools 10 m yes
Plastic Banderoles, bags, wrappings 300 m yes
Plastic Blister packs 5 x 100 m yes
Plastic Boxes 18 x 200 m yes
Plastic Reels 500 m yes
Plastic Reels 2000 m yes
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