38 Waste collection, recovery and disposal activities
A division of NOGA 2025, in section E, Water Supply; Sewerage, Waste Management and Remediation Activities.
337
companies coded so far
8
six-digit codes
Where it sits
- Section
- E Water Supply; Sewerage, Waste Management and Remediation Activities
- Division
- 38 Waste collection, recovery and disposal activities
Its name in four languages
- Deutsch
- Sammlung, Verwertung und Beseitigung von Abfällen
- Français
- Collecte, valorisation et élimination des déchets
- Italiano
- Attività di raccolta, recupero e smaltimento dei rifiuti
- English
- Waste collection, recovery and disposal activities
What it includes
- This division includes the collection, pretreatment for recovery or disposal, recovery and disposal of waste materials and its organisation. Collection of waste which solely supports the subsequent recovery or disposal of the collected waste by the same unit is to be regarded as waste recovery or as a disposal activity.
It also includes
- local hauling of waste materials and the operation of materials recovery facilities, i.e. facilities that transform waste, including scrap, whether sorted or not, into secondary raw materials
- activities of units implementing producer responsibility obligations for the management of waste on behalf of the original waste producers. These organisations usually bear the responsibility for the treatment of waste, delegated to them from the original producers of products or packaging.
- Activities may include the operation of return, collection and recovery systems for used packaging or packaging waste or for the acceptance and treatment of returned or used products.
What it excludes
- wholesale of waste, see division 46
The codes in this division
| Code | Activity | Companies coded |
|---|---|---|
| 381 | Waste collection | 55 |
| 381100 | Collection of non-hazardous waste | 51 |
| 381200 | Collection of hazardous waste | 4 |
| 382 | Waste recovery | 230 |
| 382100 | Materials recovery | 183 |
| 382200 | Energy recovery | 25 |
| 382300 | Other waste recovery | 2 |
| 383 | Waste disposal without recovery | 11 |
| 383100 | Incineration without energy recovery | 1 |
| 383200 | Landfilling or permanent storage | 10 |
| 383300 | Other waste disposal | 0 |
What a NOGA code is, and how to find a company's code
Company counts cover the 145,068 of 782,904 active companies in the commercial register that Prospex has coded so far, from their registered purpose and website, so they are a floor. Geneva is 93% coded, because its cantonal register publishes a code per company; the other cantons 11% so far. They are Prospex's codes, not the code the BFS assigns in its business register (BUR). Codes, labels and notes: Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS), NOGA 2025, through the I14Y interoperability platform and the KUBB coding tool.