423930 Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of automotive scrap, industrial scrap, and other recyclable materials. Included in this industry are auto wreckers primarily engaged in dismantling motor vehicles for the purpose of wholesaling scrap.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Dismantling motor vehicles for the purpose of selling used parts are classified in Industry 423140, Motor Vehicle Parts (Used) Merchant Wholesalers.
• Operating facilities where commingled recyclable materials, such as paper, plastics, used beverage cans, and metals, are sorted into distinct categories are classified in Industry 562920, Materials Recovery Facilities.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Activities listed under 423930

The Census index assigns these 23 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Bags, reclaimed, merchant wholesalers
• Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers
• Boxes, waste, merchant wholesalers
• Electronics parts, recyclable, merchant wholesalers
• Fly ash merchant wholesalers
• Fur cuttings and scraps merchant wholesalers
• General-line scrap merchant wholesalers
• Glass scrap merchant wholesalers
• Industrial wastes to be reclaimed merchant wholesalers
• Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers
• Oil, waste, merchant wholesalers
• Paper, scrap, merchant wholesalers
• Plastics scrap merchant wholesalers
• Rags merchant wholesalers
• Recyclable inkjet cartridges merchant wholesalers
• Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers
• Rubber scrap and scrap tires merchant wholesalers
• Salvage, scrap, merchant wholesalers
• Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers
• Ship dismantling (except at floating drydocks and shipyards) merchant wholesalers
• Textile waste merchant wholesalers
• Tires, scrap, merchant wholesalers
• Waste materials merchant wholesalers

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 423930

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 423930, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed 125 employees. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 4669), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 46690Wholesale of other machinery and equipmentUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.

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