NAICS 56299
What is the NAICS code 56299?
The NAICS code 56299 is applied to those industries related to All Other Waste Management Services.
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in waste management services (except waste collection, waste treatment and disposal, remediation, operation of materials recovery facilities, and waste management consulting services).
Illustrative examples:
- Beach cleaning and maintenance services
- Pumping (i.e., cleaning) cesspools, portable toilets, or septic tanks
- Cesspool cleaning services
- Sewer cleaning and rodding services
- Portable toilet renting and/or servicing
- Sewer or storm basin cleanout services
Therefore, all companies engaged in any industrial activity related to this type of business are grouped under category 56299 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
- 5629 - Remediation and Other Waste Management Services
- 56299 - All Other Waste Management Services
Characteristics of the North American Industry Classification System code 56299
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 56299 has the following cross-references:
- Collecting and/or hauling waste within a local area are classified in Industry 56211, Waste Collection.
- Collecting, treating, and disposing waste through sewer systems or sewage treatment facilities are classified in Industry 22132, Sewage Treatment Facilities.
- Installing septic tanks are classified in Industry 23891, Site Preparation Contractors.
- Long-distance trucking of waste are classified in Industry 48423, Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Long-Distance.
- Merchant wholesaling waste oil are classified in Industry 42393, Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers.
- Operating facilities for separating and sorting recyclable materials from nonhazardous waste streams (i.e., garbage) or where commingled recyclable materials, such as paper, plastics, and metal cans, are sorted into distinct categories are classified in Industry 56292, Materials Recovery Facilities.
- Operating treatment or disposal facilities (except sewer systems or sewage treatment facilities) for waste are classified in Industry 56221, Waste Treatment and Disposal.
- Providing street cleaning services are classified in Industry 48849, Other Support Activities for Road Transportation.
- Providing waste management consulting services, such as developing remedial action plans are classified in Industry 54162, Environmental Consulting Services.
- Remediation and cleanup of contaminated buildings, mine sites, soil, or ground water are classified in Industry 56291, Remediation Services.
Related activities
Below are some of the most common types of activities in the All Other Waste Management Services industry (NAICS Code 56299).
- Cesspool cleaning services
- Portable toilet pumping (i.e., cleaning) services
- Portable toilet renting and/or servicing
- Pumping (i.e., cleaning) cesspools and septic tanks
- Pumping (i.e., cleaning) portable toilets
- Septic tank cleaning services
- Septic tank pumping (i.e., cleaning) services
- Tank cleaning services, septic
- Toilet renting and/or servicing, portable
