This class includes:
- wholesale of metal and non-metal waste and scrap and materials for recycling, including collecting, sorting, separating, stripping of used goods such as cars in order to obtain reusable parts, packing and repacking, storage and delivery, but without a real transformation process. Additionally, the purchased and sold waste has a remaining value.
This class also includes:
- dismantling of automobiles, computers, televisions and other equipment to obtain and re-sell usable parts
This class excludes:
- collection of household and industrial waste, see
38.1
- treatment of waste, not for a further use in an industrial manufacturing process, but with the aim of disposal, see
38.2
- processing of waste and scrap and other articles into secondary raw material when a real transformation process is required (the resulting secondary raw material is fit for direct use in an industrial manufacturing process, but is not a final product), see
38.3
- dismantling of automobiles, computers, televisions and other equipment for materials recovery, see
38.31
- ship-breaking, see
38.31
- shredding of cars by means of a mechanical process, see
38.32
- retail sale of second-hand goods, see
47.79 
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