KSICSubclass
KSIC 38120—Hazardous waste collection
Subclass · Korean Standard Industrial Classification (Rev. 11 (2024))
Where 38120 sits
Description
Refers to industrial activities involving the collection and transportation of specially managed waste that is explosive, oxidizing, flammable, toxic, irritating, carcinogenic, corrosive, or infectious, emitted from businesses, medical institutions, etc., and is harmful to human health and the environment.
What 38120 includes
- Collection and transportation of waste oil (waste cooking oil is classified as non-designated waste)
- Waste harmful to humans, excised human tissues, and laboratory animal carcasses among waste emitted from public health and medical institutions, veterinary hospitals, testing and inspection agencies, etc.
- Collection and transportation of hazardous slag, waste foundry sand, waste refractories, waste organic solvents, waste paint and lacquer, and toxic waste
Example activities
- collection and transportation of corrosive waste (waste acid, waste alkali)
- collection and transportation of waste asbestos, waste pesticides
- collection and transportation of liquid waste synthetic resins, waste rubber
- collection and transportation of wastewater sludge, process discharge sludge
Cross-references for 38120
- Collection, transportation, and disposal of radioactive waste ( 38240 )
38120 in other systems
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Index entries for 38120
5 entries from the official KSIC alphabetic index that classify under this code.
- Collection and transportation of waste oil (excluding waste cooking oil)
- Collection and transportation of hospital waste
- Collection and transportation of waste asbestos and waste pesticides
- Collection and transportation of corrosive waste (waste acid, waste alkali)
- Collection and transportation of designated industrial waste.