How much has the federal government obligated on solid waste collection?

NAICS 562111 shows $1,107,494,218.51 in obligations on 5,342 USAspending contract awards. That is collection-coded contract commitments, not landfill fees and not tonnage. The unit is obligations, not outlays. Quote it as USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 562111, not as cash outlays. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so grants remain outside the 5,342-award extract behind $1,107,494,218.51.

Does 562111 include hazardous waste or landfills?

No. Those are other NAICS codes. This page’s $1,107,494,218.51 is solid waste collection as tagged on 5,342 contract actions. Check neighboring 562xxx industries on the all-industries list for disposal and hazardous-waste work. Other metal container manufacturing (332439) makes bins; 562111 hauls waste. Keep $1,107,494,218.51 attached to 562111 as tagged on 5,342 actions; do not merge neighbor codes into the same unlabeled cell.

Why thousands of awards for trash collection?

Collection is bought locally. 5,342 actions against $1,107,494,218.51 averages about $207,000. Installations and campuses each run their own service contracts. The industry hub shows the geographic and size mix. That pattern is thousands of local hauling-service contracts, with about $207,000 per action as the simple average of $1,107,494,218.51 over 5,342 awards. Check whether installation-level routes account for most of the 5,342 actions.

Are municipal waste grants in this $1.11 billion?

Usually not. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so they fall outside this contract extract. Use program pages for grants and the industry page for tagged collection contracts. This industry guide covers tagged contracts only: $1,107,494,218.51 obligated on 5,342 solid waste collection awards in USAspending. Outlays are a different field; assistance without NAICS is a different award type.

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Federal obligations in solid waste collection (NAICS 562111)

Solid waste collection, NAICS 562111, shows $1,107,494,218.51 in federal contract obligations on 5,342 awards in USAspending.gov records indexed here. The code is the hauling and collection industry—establishments that collect solid waste—not landfills, not hazardous-waste treatment, and not recycling processing plants, which have other NAICS homes. Dollars are obligations, not outlays. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so municipal grants for trash service often miss this contract rollup.

Key figures

Solid waste collection (NAICS 562111) has $1,107,494,218.51 in obligations on 5,342 awards.
The code is collection, not landfills or hazardous-waste treatment.
Average action size is about $207,000.
Figures are USAspending obligations, not outlays or tonnage.
Assistance without NAICS is excluded.

Collection contracts totaling $1.11 billion

Federal campuses, installations, and offices buy trash and solid-waste collection from vendors classified in 562111. Rolling those tagged contracts produces $1,107,494,218.51 obligated. That is not a tonnage figure and not a count of dumpsters. Physical volumes are not in the packet facts and are not estimated here.

Collection is typically a recurring service. Agencies obligate a period of performance and pay invoices as routes are run. The $1,107,494,218.51 is the commitment total on tagged actions, which can include base years, options, and modifications. Outlays trail those invoices and can differ after credits or route changes.

5,342 awards: many local service vehicles

Five thousand three hundred forty-two awards against $1,107,494,218.51 averages about $207,000 per action. That fits local or installation-level collection contracts rather than one national hauling award. Geographic split is the usual reason a services NAICS shows thousands of rows. The average is only the ratio of the two packet facts; the industry hub is the mix.

This guide does not rank cities or agencies because those splits are not in the facts object. The overlay target holds the award tables. Use them to see whether the $1,107,494,218.51 clusters in defense installations, civilian campuses, or both.

Collection versus disposal and hazardous waste

NAICS 562111 is solid waste collection. Landfills, incinerators, hazardous-waste collection, and remediation sit in other 562xxx codes. A single vendor that collects and disposes may be tagged to collection on some awards and to treatment or disposal on others. The $1,107,494,218.51 follows the 562111 tag on 5,342 actions, not a complete “federal trash budget.”

Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. EPA or USDA grants that help a town buy collection service will usually miss this page. Pair program views with this industry view if the question is broader than tagged federal contracts.

A complete citation of this industry is $1,107,494,218.51 in USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 562111, solid waste collection, on 5,342 awards. Anything less—dropping the NAICS, dropping the word obligations, or dropping the contract-only universe—overstates what the extract contains. The packet facts do not include a fiscal year, so this guide does not invent one. Live tables on the industry hub can move when USAspending posts modifications; the harvested pair remains $1,107,494,218.51 and 5,342.

Units and source

Source is USAspending.gov contract awards. Unit is obligations. Count is 5,342. Dollar total is $1,107,494,218.51. The solid waste collection industry page is where those facts meet the award list. The all-industries directory links neighboring waste codes without merging their dollars into this total.

Classification errors are expected at the margin. Vendors that straddle landfills, hazardous-waste treatment, and metal-container manufacturing may land in 562111 on some actions and in a neighbor on others. Other metal container manufacturing (332439) makes bins; 562111 hauls waste. The public-record stance is to keep $1,107,494,218.51 attached to 562111 as tagged, then check whether installation-level routes account for most of the 5,342 actions. Re-tagging the extract by hand is out of scope for this overlay.

What not to infer from hauling tags

A large collection total is not evidence of wastefulness or of a cleanliness ranking. It is evidence that 5,342 tagged contracts sum to $1,107,494,218.51. Route efficiency, recycling diversion, and environmental performance are not in this extract.

Hauling tags are not a landfill or recycling score

Award count interprets the buying pattern. 5,342 actions producing $1,107,494,218.51 is thousands of local hauling-service contracts, with about $207,000 per action as the simple average. That average hides mix: modifications, options, and delivery orders all increment count. 5,342 is not a count of unique companies and not a count of physical units. Use the hub amount sort to see whether a few large rows plus a long tail make up most of the tagged total.

Outlays remain a separate USAspending concept. An agency can obligate $1,107,494,218.51 across 5,342 tagged solid waste collection actions and pay on a different calendar. De-obligations after cancellations reduce the obligation ledger; they do not rewrite the fact that this NAICS has been a large tagged category in the harvest. Assistance without NAICS still sits outside even when the real-world activity looks similar. Program pages answer the grant question; this page answers the tagged-contract question.

Internal links on this file point only to the solid waste collection industry page and the all-industries directory. Those are the packet hrefs. Neighboring industry codes mentioned in prose are classification context only. Source note, copied from the packet: NAICS from USAspending contract awards. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. The overlay’s job is to state $1,107,494,218.51, 5,342, the obligation unit, and the boundary around landfills, hazardous-waste treatment, and metal-container manufacturing.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated on solid waste collection?: NAICS 562111 shows $1,107,494,218.51 in obligations on 5,342 USAspending contract awards. That is collection-coded contract commitments, not landfill fees and not tonnage. The unit is obligations, not outlays. Quote it as USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 562111, not as cash outlays. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so grants remain outside the 5,342-award extract behind $1,107,494,218.51.
Does 562111 include hazardous waste or landfills?: No. Those are other NAICS codes. This page’s $1,107,494,218.51 is solid waste collection as tagged on 5,342 contract actions. Check neighboring 562xxx industries on the all-industries list for disposal and hazardous-waste work. Other metal container manufacturing (332439) makes bins; 562111 hauls waste. Keep $1,107,494,218.51 attached to 562111 as tagged on 5,342 actions; do not merge neighbor codes into the same unlabeled cell.
Why thousands of awards for trash collection?: Collection is bought locally. 5,342 actions against $1,107,494,218.51 averages about $207,000. Installations and campuses each run their own service contracts. The industry hub shows the geographic and size mix. That pattern is thousands of local hauling-service contracts, with about $207,000 per action as the simple average of $1,107,494,218.51 over 5,342 awards. Check whether installation-level routes account for most of the 5,342 actions.
Are municipal waste grants in this $1.11 billion?: Usually not. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so they fall outside this contract extract. Use program pages for grants and the industry page for tagged collection contracts. This industry guide covers tagged contracts only: $1,107,494,218.51 obligated on 5,342 solid waste collection awards in USAspending. Outlays are a different field; assistance without NAICS is a different award type.

NAICS from USAspending contract awards. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS.