This European Standard provides a scheme for the characterisation of plastics wastes, laying out those
properties for which the supplier of the waste shall make information available to the purchaser, and
identifying test methods where applicable. The scheme provides for a division of information between
"Required Data", where a statement is required, even if it is "unclassified", and additional "Optional Data"
which the supplier may choose to provide if it adds value to the waste.
This standard is applicable without prejudice to any existing legislation.
NOTE This standard does not cover the characterisation of plastics recyclates.
BS EN 15347:2007 Referenced Document
EN 12099 Plastics piping systems - Polyethylene piping materials and components - Determination of volatile content
EN 15343 Plastics - Recycled Plastics - Plastics recycling traceability and assessment of conformity and recycled content*, 2024-04-18 Update
EN ISO 1043-1:2001 Plastics - Symbols and Abbreviated Terms - Part 1: Basic Polymers and Their Special Characteristics
EN ISO 1133 Plastics - Determination of the melt mass-flow rate (MFR) and the melt volume-flow rate (MVR) of thermoplastics
EN ISO 179-1 Plastics - Determination of Charpy impact properties - Part 1: Non-instrumented impact test (ISO 179-1:2023)*, 2023-06-14 Update
EN ISO 179-2 Plastics - Determination of Charpy impact properties - Part 2: Instrumented impact test (ISO 179-2:2020)*, 2020-06-03 Update
EN ISO 180 Plastics - Determination of Izod impact strength (ISO 180:2023)*, 2023-06-14 Update
EN ISO 306 Plastics - Thermoplastic materials - Determination of Vicat softening temperature (VST) (ISO 306:2022)*, 2022-11-30 Update
EN ISO 3451-1 Plastics - Determination of ash - Part 1: General methods*, 2019-03-01 Update
EN ISO 527-1 Plastics - Determination of tensile properties - Part 1: General principles (ISO 527-1:2019)*, 2019-09-18 Update
EN ISO 527-2 Plastics - Determination of tensile properties - Part 2: Test conditions for moulding and extrusion plastics (ISO 527-2:2012)*, 2012-02-01 Update
EN ISO 527-3 Plastics - Determination of tensile properties - Part 3: Test conditions for films and sheets*, 2018-12-01 Update
BS EN 15347:2007 history
2008BS EN 15347:2008 Plastics. Recycled Plastics. Characterization of plastics waste
2008BS EN 15347:2007 Plastics - Recycled Plastics - Characterization of plastics waste