FprEN 16403
(Main)Waste management - Waste visual elements
Waste management - Waste visual elements
This European Standard specifies a way to identify the various fractions of municipal waste by a set of visual elements, including colours, symbols, text.
This European Standard is intended to create a unique operative model to easily identify the waste containers through visual elements thereby facilitating collection and recycling/recovery services for both consumers and management companies.
Abfallwirtschaft - Bildelemente für Abfallfraktionen
Diese Europäische Norm legt eine Möglichkeit fest, die verschiedenen Fraktionen kommunalen Abfalls durch eine Reihe von Bildelementen, einschließlich Farben, Symbolen und Text, zu erkennen.
Diese Europäische Norm ist dazu vorgesehen, ein eindeutiges Betriebsmodell zu schaffen, um den Abfall leicht durch Bildelemente erkennen zu können, und dadurch die Abfallsammlung und Recycling/Wiederverwertung sowohl für den Verbraucher als auch für Entsorgungsunternehmen zu erleichtern.
Gestion des déchets - Éléments visuels
La présente Norme européenne spécifie un moyen pour identifier les diverses fractions des déchets urbains
au moyen d'un ensemble d'éléments visuels, comprenant des couleurs, des symboles, du texte.
La présente Norme européenne est destinée à créer un modèle opératif unique permettant d'identifier
aisément les déchets au moyen d'éléments visuels et donc de faciliter les services de collecte et de
recyclage/récupération pour les consommateurs comme pour les entreprises de gestion des déchets.
Ravnanje z odpadki - Vidni elementi za označevanje vrste odpadkov
General Information
Standards Content (Sample)
SLOVENSKI STANDARD
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01-junij-2012
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Waste management - Waste visual elements
Abfallwirtschaft - Bildelemente für Abfallfraktionen
Gestion des déchets - Éléments visuels
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: prEN 16403
ICS:
01.070 Barvno kodiranje Colour coding
01.080.99 'UXJLJUDILþQLVLPEROL Other graphical symbols
13.030.01 Odpadki na splošno Wastes in general
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2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
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EUROPEAN STANDARD
DRAFT
prEN 16403
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
March 2012
ICS 01.070; 01.080.99; 13.030.01
English Version
Waste management - Waste visual elements
Abfallwirtschaft - Bildelemente für Abfallfraktionen
This draft European Standard is submitted to CEN members for enquiry. It has been drawn up by the Technical Committee CEN/TC 183.
If this draft becomes a European Standard, CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which
stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.
This draft European Standard was established by CEN in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language
made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management
Centre has the same status as the official versions.
CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom.
Recipients of this draft are invited to submit, with their comments, notification of any relevant patent rights of which they are aware and to
provide supporting documentation.
Warning : This document is not a European Standard. It is distributed for review and comments. It is subject to change without notice and
shall not be referred to as a European Standard.
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Contents Page
Foreword .3
Introduction .4
1 Scope .5
2 Normative references .5
3 Terms and definitions .5
4 Principles .8
5 The Waste Visual Elements .9
5.1 Colours .9
5.1.1 Contrasting Colours .9
5.1.2 Auxiliary colours for hazardous waste and for toxic and harmful waste . 10
5.1.3 Waste-colours . 10
5.1.4 Waste-colours based on prevalent waste-material . 11
5.1.5 Multi-waste-material . 12
5.1.6 Secondary waste-colours . 12
5.2 QR-Code . 13
5.3 Waste-logograms . 15
5.4 Text for WVE-panel . 21
5.5 Waste-Braille-Plate . 21
5.6 WVE-panel . 22
5.7 Waste-frames . 23
5.8 Visual elements for “hazardous” and “toxic and harmful” waste . 25
5.9 Coloured-parts of waste container . 26
6 Requirements . 27
6.1 General requirements . 27
6.2 WVE-panel requirements . 27
Annex A (informative) Communication Campaign . 28
A.1 Rationale for the standardization of Waste Visual Elements that characterize the
municipal waste fractions for separate collection. . 28
A.2 Typical identification elements . 28
A.2.1 Languages . 28
A.2.2 Colours . 28
A.2.3 Images . 28
A.2.4 Pictograms . 28
A.3 Typical problematic situations . 29
A.3.1 Multi-material . 29
A.3.2 Sub-divisions . 29
A.3.3 Danger . 29
Annex B (informative) Suggested positions for WVE-panel . 30
Annex C (informative) Suggested positions for Waste-Braille-Plate . 31
Annex D (informative) Suggestion for the existing waste containers conversion . 33
Annex E (informative) Examples for QR-Code additional contents . 34
Annex F (informative) Examples of WVE-panels . 35
Bibliography . 37
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Foreword
This document (prEN 16403:2012) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 183 “Waste
management”, the secretariat of which is held by DIN.
This document is currently submitted to the CEN Enquiry.
The Annexes A, B, C, D, E and F are Informative.
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Introduction
This standard is aimed to facilitate and make unambiguous the identification of different waste typologies: the
value of each material is strictly linked to its purity, so it is necessary to avoid any wrong waste conferring.
To this purpose the present standard defines a unique colour and visual identification elements in all the
countries that are CEN members for the main materials subject to separate collection.
Consequently, object of this standard is managing in a tidy and homogeneous way – in terms of quantity and
quality – the majority of the municipal waste separately collected. The point is that not all the materials subject
to separate collection are taken in consideration in detail (for instance wood, batteries, etc.), because for the
first important standardization phase in Europe it would be better to take in consideration the main waste
typologies collected in the streets by means of waste containers; the collection of those materials concerns
not only the citizens living in a particular city, but also people travelling for different reasons. They should be
able to find the same waste visual element in any city.
This document defines various different visual elements defining in different ways a specific waste-material:
each person will detect one element better than another element depending on age, eyesight, culture,
behaviour.
This standard refers to all the waste containers defined in the EN standards and it is suggested also for all
kinds of bins for waste collection. The colours and all the others waste visual elements should be used in any
activity: explanatory, advertising and communication for the users and operators.
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1 Scope
This European Standard specifies a way to identify the various fractions of municipal waste by a set of visual
elements, including colours, symbols, text.
This standard is intended to create a unique operative model to easily identify the waste from visual elements
thereby facilitating collection and recycling/recovery services for both consumers and management
companies.
2 Normative references
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references,
the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
EN 840-1, Mobile Waste Containers – Part 1: Containers with 2 wheels with a capacity from 80 l to 390 l for
comb lifting devices – Dimensions and design
EN 840-2, Mobile Waste Containers – Part 2: Containers with 4 wheels with a capacity up to 1 300 l with flat
lid(s), for trunnion and/or comb lifting devices – Dimensions and design
EN 840-3, Mobile Waste Containers – Part 3: Containers with 4 wheels with a capacity up to 1 300 l with
dome lid(s), for trunnion and/or comb lifting devices – Dimensions and design
EN 840-4, Mobile Waste Containers – Part 4: Containers with 4 wheels with a capacity up to 1 700 l with flat
lid(s), for wide trunnion or BG-and/or wide comb lifting devices – Dimensions and design
EN 840-5, Mobile Waste Containers – Part 5: Performance requirements and test methods
EN 840-6, Mobile Waste Containers – Part 6: Safety and health requirements
EN 12574-1, Stationary Waste Containers – Part 1: Containers with a capacity up to 10 000 l with flat or dome
lid(s), for trunnion, double trunnion or pocket lifting device – Dimensions and design
EN 12574-2, Stationary Waste Containers – Part 2: Performance requirements and test methods
EN 12574-3, Stationary Waste Containers – Part 3: Safety and health requirements
EN 13071-1, Stationary waste containers up to 5 000 l, top lifted and bottom emptied – Part 1: General
requirements
EN 13071-2, Stationary waste containers up to 5 000 l, top lifted and bottom emptied – Part 2: Additional
requirements for underground or partly underground systems
EN ISO 14021, Environmental labels and declarations – Self-declared environmental claims
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this European Standard, the following terms and definitions apply.
3.1
stationary waste container
appropriately designed containers with a capacity up to 10 000 litres with flat or dome lid(s), for trunnion,
double trunnion or pocket lifting device, without wheels or fitted with them, for positioning empty containers
only, to temporarily store waste, according to EN 12574
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3.2
mobile waste container
appropriately designed mobile waste containers with 2 wheels with a capacity up to 400 litres for comb lifting
devices and Mobile waste containers with 4 wheels with a capacity up to 1 300 litres with flat lid(s), for
trunnion and/or comb lifting devices, according to EN 840
3.3
stationary waste containers top lifted and bottom emptied
appropriately designed stationary waste containers up to 5.000 litres, top lifted and bottom emptied, according
to EN 13071-1
EXAMPLE Waste Bank, Igloo
3.4
underground or partly underground system
system whose emptying device is loc
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