SIC 38.32 1,550 enterprises in the UK
Recovery of sorted materials
What this covers (20 activity descriptions)
- Cleaning and devulcanising of waste rubber
- Crushing
- Disposal of waste oil
- Extraction of silver from waste
- Mechanical crushing of metal waste (cars
- Mechanical crushing of metal waste from used bikes
- Mechanical reduction of large iron pieces such as railway wagons into secondary raw materials
- Non-metal waste and scrap recycling into secondary raw materials
- Processing cleaning
- Processing of food
- Processing of used cooking oils and fats into secondary raw materials
- Reclaiming metals out of photographic waste
- Reclaiming of rubber to produce secondary raw materials
- Recovery of waste oil
- Rubber powder from waste
- Scrap metal recycling into new raw materials (except remelting of ferrous waste and scrap)
- Shredding of metal waste
- Sorting and pelleting of plastics to produce secondary raw material for tubes
- Sorting and pelleting of plastics to produce secondary raw materials
- Treatment of waste oil
Guidance for this activity
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