NAICS 56291Industry · 5-digitlocal market

Remediation services

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the remediation and clean-up of contaminated buildings, mine sites, soil or ground water. Establishments primarily engaged in integrated mine site reclamation activities, such as soil remediation, waste water treatment, hazardous material removal, contouring of land and revegetation, are also included. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 471
Under 10 employeesA: 54%
Establishments · USA: 5,852
Employment · USA: 92,113
Payroll · USA: $6.7B

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–413228%

5–912226%

10–198919%

20–498718%

50–99255%

100–199102%

200–49961%

500+0—

Of 471 Canadian establishments with employees, 54% have fewer than ten — mostly small operators.

Where they areA

Ontario13028%

Alberta12025%

British Columbia8518%

Quebec6714%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Administrative and Waste Services, US · opened 2020

79.4%

1 year

63.6%

3 years

51.5%

5 years

37%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 562, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

local competitionhigh capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 562 Waste management and remediation services

Whoever owns the disposal site sets the economics for everyone hauling to it. Collection is contestable; disposal is not. Specialty streams — septic, portable sanitation, hazardous — are the reachable niches.

Who sets the price: Municipal contracts and landfill tipping fees.
The software it runs on: Route management, scale house and billing.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Screened one level up. Nothing is filed at this exact code; the screen for 5629 Remediation and other waste management services covers it.

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 562990

Septic & Portable Sanitation ServicesStructure decides

binding constraint: entry cost

A genuinely underserved, unglamorous, recession-resistant business — and the entry ticket is a vacuum truck, a disposal agreement and provincial permits before the first customer. Disposal access is the real gate: without a receiving site under contract, the route does not exist. Where those three are already held, this is a good small business; assembling them from zero is a capital project.

NAICS 5629905 vendors named10 sourced figuresOpen →

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

No vertical software market has been recorded along this branch. What the subsector typically runs on: Route management, scale house and billing.

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Who works here

The occupations employed in Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

Security guards and related security service occupations Mostly one sector 69.7%

Contractors and supervisors, agriculture, horticulture and related operations and services Mostly one sector 67.9%

Logging, forestry, landscaping and other related labourers Mostly one sector 56%

Water and rail transport operators and labourers and related occupations Mostly one sector 16.8%

Service supervisors Mostly one sector 14.2%

Tourism and amusement services occupations Mostly one sector 12.9%

Educational and employment counsellors Mostly one sector 8.5%

Logging and forestry workers Mostly one sector 6.4%

Labourers in processing, manufacturing and utilities Mostly one sector 6.3%

Roofers, glaziers, painters, decorators and floor covering installers One industry 4.7%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Other technical trades Across the economy 29.2%

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 15%

Customer and information services representatives Across the economy 13.5%

Technical occupations in electronics and electrical engineering Across the economy 6.6%

Technical occupations in computer and information systems Across the economy 5.1%

Survey, statistical and data entry occupations Across the economy 4.8%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 4.5%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 4%

Administrative and financial supervisors Across the economy 4%

Administrative, property and payroll officers Across the economy 3.9%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

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Inside this industry

1 row sits directly beneath 56291. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
562910	Remediation services	471	screened at 5629

Alongside it, under 5629 Remediation and other waste management services

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
56292	Material recovery facilities	199	screened at 5629
56299	All other waste management services	635	Septic & Portable Sanitation Services