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11 2018 INDUSTRY RESOURCE DIRECTORY Size and Scope of the Industry The portable sanitation industry is categorized by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) using code 5629912 for "portable toilet rental." The category is a subset of code 562991 encompassing "septic tank and related services;" various agencies of the United States government report data only under 562991. Portable sanitation is complementary to several other business lines, including solid waste removal, construction rental and support (equipment/fencing/barricades), party and event planning, and temporary storage, among others. Many of the companies providing these other goods and services report their business results under different NAICS codes and would not be shown in the government's numbers for the portable sanitation and septic industry. Hence, we must turn to published documents from other resources for data that helps flesh out the full picture of our industry. We estimate as of 2017 there were 8,639 establishments in the United States involved in providing septic services and/or portable toilets as at least a tertiary service. Of these, some 3,520 were firms in which septic pumping and portable toilet rental were a primary business line, representing about 41% of the total. About 1,116 were companies engaged primarily in the rental of portable toilets and other sanitation-related equipment, or 12.9% of the total. Year-over-year growth in the number of firms has been about 1% annually since 2013 when the industry's recovery from the Great Recession took hold. Industry Data Estimated Industry Size by Number of Business Establishments Sources: US Census Bureau, Ibis World, Internal PSAI Data Septic tank and related services as a primary business line Portable toilet rental as the primary business line (estimated in 2015 and 2017) 7,363 8,674 8,458 8,639 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 9,000 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 2002 2012 2015 2017 2,201 2,284 2,354 2,404 4,418 5,330 5,011 5,119 744 1,060 1,093 1,116 Companies engaged in septic/portable toilet rentals as a tertiary service Total—All Companies Engaged in Septic/Portable Toilets