KSIC 38312—Recovery of metal waste

Where 38312 sits

1. E Water supply; sewage, waste management, materials recovery
2. 38 Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery
3. 383 Dismantling and sorting recoverable materials; materials recovery
4. 3831 Dismantling, sorting and recovering metal waste
5. 38312 Recovery of metal waste

Description

Refers to industrial activities that classify and separate metals from waste, scrap, and other waste materials, and convert them into raw metal materials for recycling by crushing, grinding, or chemically treating them.

What 38312 includes

• Extraction of raw metal materials through the processes of waste collection, classification and separation of metals, crushing, and grinding

Example activities

• extraction of unrefined metals from photosensitive films, fixers, photographic paper, etc.

Cross-references for 38312

• Cases where primary metals are directly produced by processing recycled metal materials ( 24 )

38312 in other systems

Index entries for 38312

9 entries from the official KSIC alphabetic index that classify under this code.

• Iron scrap crushing processing
• Iron waste crushing processing
• Metal scrap crushing processing
• Non-ferrous metal scrap crushing processing
• Copper scrap crushing processing
• Gold (recycled raw material, unrefined product) extraction
• Conversion of metal scrap into recycled raw material
• Metal raw material recycling
• Extraction of precious metal recycled raw material