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For many industries 2020 was a crappy year. And for the portable sanitation industry, with potties so ubiquitous at events and gatherings, a pandemic would have intuitively portended lots of toilets with no place to go.
Instead, though, the year was flush with business. The industry supplies and services portable bathrooms, sinks, and sanitizer stations, and it is generally dependent on four main revenue drivers: special events, construction, agriculture, and disaster relief.
Biffs Inc. saw a 90 percent decrease in events-related rentals in 2020, says vice president Ben Schnackenberg. Annual gatherings typically necessitating thousands of rentals were zeroed out. But the rest of its market has seen enough growth to counter the losses. Both agriculture and construction are operating normally, so business in those areas is still booming.