UK SIC 2007 46770: Wholesale of waste and scrap

Maps to NACE Rev. 2 46.77 and NACE Rev. 2.1 46.87. ISIC Rev. 4: 4669.

UK SIC 2007 code 46770 is "Wholesale of waste and scrap". UK SIC 2007 follows NACE Rev. 2 at four digits and adds a national fifth digit, so the first four digits, 46.77, are the NACE Rev. 2 class "Wholesale of waste and scrap". UK companies state one or more SIC codes when they file at Companies House, and the codes appear in the company record. In NACE Rev. 2.1 the matching class is 46.87, "Wholesale of waste and scrap".

Conversion

Classification	Code	Label
UK SIC 2007	46770	Wholesale of waste and scrap
NACE Rev. 2	46.77	Wholesale of waste and scrap
NACE Rev. 2.1	46.87	Wholesale of waste and scrap
ISIC Rev. 4	4669

What the class includes (NACE Rev. 2 notes)

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.

What it excludes

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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UK SIC 2007: Companies House condensed list of the ONS classification (gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0), read 2026-10-05. NACE data: EU Vocabularies (CC BY 4.0). Information only.