WZSubclass

WZ 46.87.0Wholesale of waste and scrap

Subclass · Klassifikation der Wirtschaftszweige (2025)

Where 46.87.0 sits

  1. G Wholesale and retail trade
  2. 46 Wholesale trade
  3. 46.8 Other specialised wholesale
  4. 46.87 Wholesale of waste and scrap
  5. 46.87.0 Wholesale of waste and scrap

What 46.87.0 includes

  • Wholesale of metallic and non-metallic scrap materials, waste, and residues for recovery, including collection, sorting, separation, dismantling of used goods (e.g., cars, for the recovery of reusable parts), packaging and repackaging, storage, and delivery, but without any actual further processing; in addition, the purchased and sold scrap materials have a residual value.
  • Wholesale of recyclable goods (metals, plastics) after the dismantling of cars, computers, televisions, and other devices on one's own account without further processing of the goods.
  • Wholesale of car wrecks.

What 46.87.0 excludes

  • Collection of waste from households, industry, crafts and trades, see group 38.1
  • Processing of scrap materials, residues, etc. into secondary raw materials, provided a processing step is required (the secondary raw materials produced are suitable for direct use in an industrial manufacturing process, but are not a finished product), see 38.21
  • Dismantling of unusable motor vehicles, computers, televisions and other equipment and parts for material recovery, see 38.21.1
  • Dismantling of ships, see 38.21.1
  • Shredding of motor vehicles using mechanical processes, see 38.21.2
  • Treatment of waste for disposal without recycling, see group 38.3
  • Retail trade in second-hand goods, see 47.79

46.87.0 in other systems

Looking up equivalents…