Recovery of sorted materials

3,015 Companies using this code Counted under every code a company carries

2,192 As their main activity Counted only under a company's first code

387 Incorporated in 12 months To the end of the snapshot, not to today

9.3% Proposed for strike off 279 companies

What falls under it

22 activities classified here.

Straight from the ONS activity index, in their words rather than ours. If what you do appears here, this is your code.

Cleaning and devulcanising of waste rubber
Crushing, cleaning and sorting of demolition waste to obtain secondary raw materials
Crushing, cleaning and sorting of glass
Crushing, cleaning and sorting of glass to produce secondary raw materials
Disposal of waste oil
Extraction of silver from waste
Mechanical crushing of metal waste (cars, washing machines, etc.) With sorting and separation
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, melting, grinding of plastic or rubber waste to granulates
Processing of food, beverage and tobacco waste and residual substances into secondary raw materials
Processing of used cooking oils and fats into secondary raw materials
Reclaiming metals out of photographic waste, e.g. Fixer solution or photographic films and paper
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, end-of-life vehicles
Sorting and pelleting of plastics to produce secondary raw material for tubes, flower pots, pallets
Sorting and pelleting of plastics to produce secondary raw materials
Treatment of waste oil

Division 38 Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery The two digit group this code belongs to