38 Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery

This group includes the collection of waste from households and businesses by means of refuse bins, wheeled bins, containers, etc. It includes collection of non-hazardous and hazardous waste e.g. waste from households, used batteries, used cooking oils and fats, waste oil from ships and used oil from garages, as well as construction and demolition waste.

This group includes the disposal and treatment prior to disposal of various forms of waste by different means, such as treatment of organic waste with the aim of disposal; treatment and disposal of toxic live or dead animals and other contaminated waste; treatment and disposal of transition radioactive waste from hospitals, etc.; dumping of refuse on land or in water; burial or ploughing-under of refuse; disposal of used goods such as refrigerators to eliminate harmful waste; disposal of waste by incineration or combustion. Included is also energy recovery resulting from waste incineration process. This group excludes: - treatment and disposal of wastewater, see 37.00 - materials recovery, see 38.3

This class includes recovery of materials such as paper, plastics, used beverage cans and metals, into distinct categories, from garbage. Also includes the processing of metal and non-metal waste and scrap and other articles into secondary raw material This class excludes: - manufacture of new final products from (whether or not self-manufactured) secondary metal raw materials, such as spinning yarn from garnetted stock, making pulp from paper waste, retreading tyres or production of metal from metal scrap, see corresponding classes in section C (Manufacturing) - reprocessing of nuclear fuels, see 2011 - treatment and disposal of non-hazardous waste, see 3821 - treatment of organic waste for disposal, see 3821 - energy recovery from non-hazardous waste incineration processes, see