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Top 25 Advanced recycling companies based in South Africa

RevenueBase identified 106 advanced recycling companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 1,520 professional contacts across them, including 348 with verified work emails and 36 with mobile numbers. Cape Town is the largest hub.

This list covers advanced recycling companies headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 7, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 7, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
106Companies
1,520Contacts tracked
348Verified emails
36Mobile numbers
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The 25 largest advanced recycling companies based in South Africa

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 106 advanced recycling companies based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 7, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to advanced recycling companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceCity Of Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 20265,001-10,000413 contacts →

“About us SA Metal Group (Pty) Ltd is South Africa’s oldest metal recycling company.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
2Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026201-500172 contacts →

“Neopak is a world-class South African business with the core competence and exclusive focus on the manufacturing of high quality recycled containerboard and related paper products.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
3Indirect evidenceDurban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026201-500122 contacts →

“Oricol Environmental Services delivers fully integrated environmental and waste management solutions to industrial and commercial sectors.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
4Strong evidenceGermiston, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026201-50097 contacts →

“Extrupet is the largest and most advanced recycler of PET bottle material on the African continent, and South Africa's first modern recycling operation dedicated to the recycling…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
5Indirect evidencePaarl, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 202651-20085 contacts →

“Akura is one of Africa’s leading manufacturers of baling equipment and a major manufacturer/supplier of waste handling equipment.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
6Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026201-50050 contacts →

“A-Thermal Retort Technologies, Leaders in Hazardous Waste Treatment in South Africa A-Thermal Retort Technologies (PTY) LTD specializes in the thermal treatment and management of…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
7Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 202651-20034 contacts →
Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
8Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-5024 contacts →

“AST Recycling is a leading IT asset disposal, electronic waste and scrap metal recycling company, certified to ISO 9001, 14001, and 27001 standards.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
9Indirect evidencePietermaritzburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 202651-20022 contacts →

“At EWaste Africa, we make it easy for companies and communities to responsibly recycle their electronic and lighting waste.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
10Indirect evidenceBallito, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-5020 contacts →

“At Macrotec our focus is on innovating and designing solutions for industries such as waste management, product recovery, mining, and crematoria.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
11Indirect evidenceBryanston, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 202651-20020 contacts →

“BRIX METALLURGY is a company based out of 25 CULROSS ROAD BRYANSTON, BRYANSTON, Gauteng, South Africa.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
12Indirect evidencePort Elizabeth, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-5015 contacts →

“Reduce your solvent waste by up to 95% and enjoy ZERO solvent waste to landfill.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
13Indirect evidenceGermiston, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 202651-20013 contacts →

“Eco Energy Trading, founded in 2006, is an environmentally friendly Energy company, committed to sustainably processing and adding value to waste by-products from used oils.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
14Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-5012 contacts →

“WasteBusters is one of South Africa’s fastest growing waste reduction and waste management companies.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
15Indirect evidenceHillcrest, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-5011 contacts →

“Ocean Plastic Technologies (OPT) develops that enable entrepreneurs and communities to turn plastic waste into high-value materials.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
16Indirect evidencePinetown, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 202651-20011 contacts →

“DC Plastics is the largest in KZN with collection points around the country, and thus, an integral player in the ever-important process of transforming potential environmental…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
17Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 202651-2007 contacts →

“Universal Recycling Company is a scrap metal recycling company, processing and trading non-ferrous scrap metal.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
18Partial evidenceEkurhuleni, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026201-5007 contacts →

“Abeddac Trading was registered on the 08 August 2001, with the sole purpose of trading and recycling scrap metal imports from neighbouring countries in Africa, as well as the…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
19Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-106 contacts →

“We collect recyclable waste from Households, Commercial and Industrial businesses, as well as other institutions, like Schools”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
20Indirect evidenceStellenbosch, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-105 contacts →

“Bioplastics can be a more sustainable option than traditional plastics, but only when their waste is appropriately processed and recycled.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
21Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-104 contacts →

“Informal reclaimer support is the core of Urban Surfer.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
22Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-504 contacts →

“X GROUP Technologies is a Brisbane-based association of companies with distributed operations globally.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
23Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-503 contacts →

“We earn our living by collecting and selling recyclable materials.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
24Indirect evidenceKwazulu Natal, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-102 contacts →

“Re-Purpose is not a typical waste management company, we are a waste repurposing company that deal with post consumer waste from the Source and convert it into a Resource.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
25Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-102 contacts →

“Imagined Earth is at the forefront of modern environmental solutions, pioneering the transition to a circular economy in South Africa through Reverse Vending Machines (RVM) and…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026

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Advanced recycling companies based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 7, 2026
22.9%Verified-email coverage
2.4%Mobile-number coverage
14.3Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
19.8%Largest-city concentration · Cape Town
Sep 7, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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201-500
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How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among advanced recycling companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “advanced recycling companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names advanced recycling companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among advanced recycling companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 348 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 7, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names advanced recycling companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many advanced recycling companies are there based in South Africa?

RevenueBase identified 106 advanced recycling companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

SA Metal Group PTY LTD, headquartered in City Of Cape Town, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most advanced recycling companies?

Cape Town leads with 21 headquartered companies, followed by Johannesburg (19) and Durban (7).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 348 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 106 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 7, 2026.

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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.