FOR 50
The pack is made of wood. FOR 50 is wood and FOR 51 is cork: the decision gives both the same letters, so only the number tells them apart.
- Material
- Wood
- Code
- FOR 50
- Family
- Wood and cork
- Defined by
- Commission Decision 97/129/EC
Which bin, usually
Usually not the household recycling bin. Household waste and recycling centres usually take clean wood in a separate container; small untreated pieces sometimes go with garden waste where your collection allows it.
Whether this goes in your recycling depends on your local collection; check your council or municipality's sorting guide.
The material
Wood.
Where you see it
Wine and spirit gift boxes, fruit and vegetable crates, pallets, round cheese boxes, and wooden trays and skewers.
What it does not mean
FOR 50 is not the FSC or PEFC tree logo, and it says nothing about where the wood came from.
FOR marks wood or cork as the material. It is not a forestry or sustainability certificate, and it does not say whether the wood is treated, painted or glued.
Other ways it is printed
- FOR under a 50 in a triangle of arrows
- FOR 50, FOR50 or 50 FOR in plain text
Other wood and cork codes
Sources
- Commission Decision 97/129/EC of 28 January 1997 establishing the identification system for packaging materials (OJ L 50, 20.2.1997), as adopted — UK National Archives copy (Annex IV: Wood, FOR, 50) — checked 2026-09-23
Written in our own words from these public texts and checked on the date shown. ASTM D7611 and ISO 14021 are sold by their publishers; only their public catalogue text is used here.