NAICS 56221
What is the NAICS code 56221?
The NAICS code 56221 is applied to those industries related to Waste Treatment and Disposal.
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) operating waste treatment or disposal facilities (except sewer systems or sewage treatment facilities) or (2) the combined activity of collecting and/or hauling of waste materials within a local area and operating waste treatment or disposal facilities. Waste combustors or incinerators (including those that may produce byproducts, such as electricity), solid waste landfills, and compost dumps are included in this industry.
Therefore, all companies engaged in any industrial activity related to this type of business are grouped under category 56221 in the North American Industry Classification System.
This industrial activity of NAICS code is structured as follows:
- 56 - Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
- 562 - Waste Management and Remediation Services
- 5622 - Waste Treatment and Disposal
- 56221 - Waste Treatment and Disposal
Characteristics of the North American Industry Classification System code 56221
NAFTA
This code is only used in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). It´s to say, it is not used in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Related codes
The NAICS industry 56221 has the following cross-references:
- Collecting, treating, and disposing waste through sewer systems or sewage treatment facilities are classified in Industry 22132, Sewage Treatment Facilities.
- Manufacturing compost are classified in Industry 32531, Fertilizer and Compost Manufacturing.
- Pumping (i.e., cleaning) cesspools, portable toilets, and septic tanks or renting portable toilets are classified in Industry 56299, All Other Waste Management Services.
Related activities
Below are some of the most common types of activities in the Waste Treatment and Disposal industry (NAICS Code 56221).
- Acid waste disposal facilities
- Acid waste treatment facilities
- Combustors, hazardous waste
- Hazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste
- Hazardous waste disposal facilities
- Hazardous waste material disposal facilities
- Hazardous waste material treatment facilities
- Hazardous waste treatment facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste
- Hazardous waste treatment facilities
- Incinerators, hazardous waste, operating
- Medical waste treatment facilities, hazardous
- Radioactive waste collecting and/or local hauling in combination with disposal and/or treatment facilities
- Radioactive waste disposal facilities
- Radioactive waste treatment facilities
- Waste disposal facilities, hazardous
- Waste treatment facilities, hazardous
- Waste treatment plants, hazardous
