Water and waste companies in Brazil

There are 29,587 companies in ISIC section E (water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation) in Brazil, all active. The section is 0.3% of the 10,933,117 Brazilian records we hold from the Receita Federal (CNPJ registry), extracted 2026-10-10. The largest divisions are 38 (waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery, 18,395) and 36 (water collection, treatment and supply, 8,200); 2 further divisions complete it. By state, São Paulo leads with 8,053 (27% of the section), followed by Minas Gerais (3,595) and Paraná (2,050).

Water utilities, sanitation concessions, waste haulers, recyclers and environmental remediation firms. Division 38 is the bulk of it: collection, landfills, scrap and materials recovery. Buyers are typically equipment, fleet, compliance and ESG-reporting vendors; municipal utilities register as public-sector entities and are flagged in the sector column. In Brazil, 100% of these rows carry an ISIC class; size is known for 58%; 17.5% have a corporate domain or HTTP-verified website; 4,052 were registered in the 12 months before the extraction. Brazilian rows are active establishments; 20,291 of them are head offices in the clean B2B universe (private, not sole-owner, name unmasked).