NAICS 562998
What is the NAICS code 562998?
The NAICS code 562998 is applied to those industries related to All Other Miscellaneous Waste Management Services.
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing waste management services (except waste collection, waste treatment and disposal, remediation, operation of materials recovery facilities, septic tank pumping and related services, and waste management consulting services).
Illustrative examples:
- Beach cleaning and maintenance services
- Sewer or storm basin cleanout services
- Catch basin cleaning services
- Tank cleaning and disposal services, commercial or industrial
- Sewer cleaning and rodding services
Therefore, all companies engaged in any industrial activity related to this type of business are grouped under category 562998 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
- 562998 - All Other Miscellaneous Waste Management Services
Characteristics of the North American Industry Classification System code 562998
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 562998 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 221320, Sewage Treatment Facilities.
- Long-distance trucking of waste are classified in Industry 484230, Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Long-Distance.
- Merchant wholesaling waste oil are classified in Industry 423930, Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers.
- Operating facilities for separating and sorting recyclable materials from nonhazardous waste streams (i.e., garbage) or for sorting commingled recyclable materials, such as paper, plastics, and metal cans, into distinct categories are classified in Industry 562920, 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 488490, Other Support Activities for Road Transportation.
- Providing waste management consulting services, such as developing remedial action plans are classified in Industry 541620, Environmental Consulting Services.
- 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.
- Remediation and cleanup of contaminated buildings, mine sites, soil, or ground water are classified in Industry 562910, Remediation Services.
Related activities
Below are some of the most common types of activities in the All Other Miscellaneous Waste Management Services industry (NAICS Code 562998):
- Beach maintenance and cleaning services
- Catch basin cleaning services
- Disaster recovery services (i.e., cleanup, salvaging), without providing remediation services
- Grease trap cleaning
- Lake maintenance and cleaning services
- Pond maintenance and cleaning services
- Reservoir maintenance and cleaning services
- Sewer cleaning and rodding services
- Sewer cleanout services
- Storm basin cleanout services
- Tank cleaning and disposal services, commercial or industrial
