UK SIC 38.211—Recycling and recovery of materials from batteries and accumulators

Where 38.211 sits

1. E Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
2. 38 Waste collection, recovery and disposal activities
3. 38.2 Waste recovery
4. 38.21 Materials recovery
5. 38.211 Recycling and recovery of materials from batteries and accumulators

What 38.211 includes

• Recycling and recovery of materials from batteries and accumulators
• Processing of batteries at the end of their primary includes disposal and recycling of battery materials
• Mechanical discharging and disassembling of batteries
• Mineral recovery through hydrometallurgical or pyrometallurgical processes

What 38.211 excludes

• Manufacture of new final products from secondary raw materials, whether or not self-manufactured (e.g. spinning yarn from garnetted stock, making pulp from paper waste, retreading tyres or the production of metal from metal scrap), see corresponding classes in section C
• Reprocessing of nuclear fuels, see 20.13
• Remelting of plastics to produce granulates or compounds, see 20.16
• Remelting ferrous waste and scrap, see 24.10
• Production of biogas from waste for gas supply, see 35.21
• Energy recovery during waste thermal treatment, see 38.22
• Disposal of waste without recovery and treatment prior to disposal, see 38.3
• Wholesale of recoverable materials, see 46.87

38.211 in other systems