NAICS 562211
What is the NAICS code 562211?
The NAICS code 562211 is applied to those industries related to Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal.
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) operating treatment and/or disposal facilities for hazardous waste or (2) the combined activity of collecting and/or hauling of hazardous waste materials within a local area and operating treatment or disposal facilities for hazardous waste.
Therefore, all companies engaged in any industrial activity related to this type of business are grouped under category 562211 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
- 562211 - Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal
Characteristics of the North American Industry Classification System code 562211
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 562211 has the following cross-references:
- Collecting, treating, and disposing waste through sewer systems or sewage treatment facilities are classified in Industry 221320, Sewage Treatment Facilities.
- Operating combustors and incinerators for the disposal of nonhazardous solid waste are classified in U.S. Industry 562213, Solid Waste Combustors and Incinerators.
- Operating landfills for the disposal of nonhazardous solid waste are classified in U.S. Industry 562212, Solid Waste Landfill.
- Operating nonhazardous waste treatment and disposal facilities (except landfills, combustors, incinerators, and sewer systems or sewage treatment facilities) are classified in U.S. Industry 562219, Other Nonhazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal.
- Pumping (i.e., cleaning) cesspools, portable toilets, and septic tanks or renting portable toilets are classified in U.S. Industry 562991, Septic Tank and Related Services.
Related activities
Below are some of the most common types of activities in the Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal industry (NAICS Code 562211):
- 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
