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Top 25 Recycling companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 29,818 recycling companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 473,890 professional contacts across them, including 136,597 with verified work emails and 74,351 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers recycling companies worldwide, 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. Country and city lists for recycling companies follow the table.
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.
The 25 largest recycling companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24,303 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WM is North America's leading provider of integrated environmental solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 17,016 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Republic Services provides the most complete set of recycling, waste and environmental solutions from a single provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 11,825 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Glencore is one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities that advance everyday life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 10,402 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DS Smith provides innovative packaging solutions, paper products and recycling services with a commitment to sustainability and a circular economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 8,924 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Clean Harbors is North America’s leading provider of environmental and industrial services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 6,349 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Novelis is the leading producer of flat-rolled aluminum products and the world’s largest recycler of aluminum.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 6,179 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GFL Environmental is the only major diversified environmental services company in North America offering services in solid waste management, liquid waste management and soil…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 4,266 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pick your destination.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 3,253 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in London in 1912, Biffa is a leading UK nationwide integrated waste management business providing collection, treatment, recycling and technologically-driven energy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 3,065 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are powering the circular economy, closing the loop between packaging, remanufacturing, recycling and logistics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 3,005 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cleanaway Waste Management Limited is Australia’s largest, publicly listed waste management company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 2,991 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Deacero is strongly committed to a sustainable strategy of growth that benefits our company, the environment, our employees and the communities in which we operate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2,827 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Safety-Kleen is a leading environmental services company engaged in used oil recycling and refining (EcoPower brand), parts cleaning and other responsible environmental solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2,533 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Recycler, c'est transformer un déchet en matières premières, donner une seconde vie à ce qu'on aurait eu tendance, hier, à considérer comme définitivement inutile.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2,324 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Saica is one of the largest European players in the development and production of recycled paper for corrugated cardboard, with a production of 3.3 million tonnes of paper.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,916 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “1-800-GOT-JUNK?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,792 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “نواصل منذ عام 1956 تحويل الرؤى إلى واقع، إسهامًا في ازدهار قطاع الصناعة الوطنية وبناء مستقبل مستدام للأجيال القادمة.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,788 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a family-owned textile service company with a business model anchored in circular economy principles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,560 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Waste Pro USA, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,478 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a global leader in metal recycling with a heritage dating back to the 1950’s.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1,417 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 35 years, we have delivered integrated waste management services across multiple regions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,360 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Rumpke Waste and Recycling has been committed to keeping neighborhoods and businesses clean and green since 1932 by providing environmentally friendly waste disposal and recycling…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,360 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “US Ecology is a Republic Services company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,276 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aurubis AG is a leading global provider of non-ferrous metals and one of the largest copper recyclers worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,275 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Veolia has completed the acquisition of Clean Earth, bringing together two organizations with a shared commitment to environmental stewardship, safety and operational excellence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: recycling companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names recycling companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of recycling companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name recycling companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Recycling companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 7, 2026Companies by employee count
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 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.
- Coverage
- 50 countries, largest first: the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Germany, Brazil, Italy, France, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands and 40 more. Country and city lists for recycling companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “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 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 recycling companies, and records with no verified work email.
- 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, 136,597 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 between September 7, 2026 and September 15, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Recycling companies by location
114 lists · largest firstEvery Recycling companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Recycling companies based in the United States7,346
- Recycling companies based in the United Kingdom2,768
- Recycling companies based in India1,961
- Recycling companies based in Germany1,910
- Recycling companies based in Brazil1,872
- Recycling companies based in Italy1,586
- Recycling companies based in France1,526
- Recycling companies based in Canada1,183
- Recycling companies based in Spain1,021
- Recycling companies based in the Netherlands977
- Recycling companies based in Australia890
- Recycling companies based in Türkiye509
- Recycling companies based in Mexico473
- Recycling companies based in Poland445
- Recycling companies based in Belgium392
- Recycling companies based in the United Arab Emirates309
- Recycling companies based in Switzerland307
- Recycling companies based in Japan280
- Recycling companies based in South Africa279
- Recycling companies based in Chile277
- Recycling companies based in Sweden275
- Recycling companies based in Colombia248
- Recycling companies based in Denmark224
- Recycling companies based in Indonesia199
- Recycling companies based in Argentina191
- Recycling companies based in Norway191
- Recycling companies based in Portugal188
- Recycling companies based in Austria169
- Recycling companies based in Finland144
- Recycling companies based in Malaysia138
- Recycling companies based in Nigeria130
- Recycling companies based in Singapore129
- Recycling companies based in New Zealand124
- Recycling companies based in Ireland122
- Recycling companies based in Peru119
- Recycling companies based in Romania110
- Recycling companies based in Saudi Arabia110
- Recycling companies based in Greece98
- Recycling companies based in Hungary94
- Recycling companies based in Hong Kong83
- Recycling companies based in Israel55
- Recycling companies based in Thailand52
- Recycling companies based in Slovakia51
- Recycling companies based in Kenya49
- Recycling companies based in Lithuania49
- Recycling companies based in Bulgaria41
- Recycling companies based in Slovenia35
- Recycling companies based in Serbia33
- Recycling companies based in Estonia28
- Recycling companies based in Latvia28
Cities
- Recycling companies based in London, United Kingdom292
- Recycling companies based in Sao Paulo, Brazil271
- Recycling companies based in Mumbai, India170
- Recycling companies based in Houston, United States167
- Recycling companies based in New Delhi, India113
- Recycling companies based in New York, United States101
- Recycling companies based in Istanbul, Türkiye100
- Recycling companies based in Ahmedabad, India92
- Recycling companies based in Bangalore, India90
- Recycling companies based in Madrid, Spain90
- Recycling companies based in Toronto, Canada87
- Recycling companies based in Paris, France80
- Recycling companies based in Chicago, United States79
- Recycling companies based in Atlanta, United States72
- Recycling companies based in Berlin, Germany70
- Recycling companies based in Phoenix, United States66
- Recycling companies based in Chennai, India65
- Recycling companies based in Los Angeles, United States64
- Recycling companies based in Dallas, United States62
- Recycling companies based in Melbourne, Australia62
- Recycling companies based in Manchester, United Kingdom61
- Recycling companies based in Hyderabad, India60
- Recycling companies based in Sydney, Australia58
- Recycling companies based in Portland, United States54
- Recycling companies based in Calgary, Canada53
- Recycling companies based in Barcelona, Spain52
- Recycling companies based in Edmonton, Canada52
- Recycling companies based in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil52
- Recycling companies based in Noida, India51
- Recycling companies based in Austin, United States50
- Recycling companies based in Cape Town, South Africa50
- Recycling companies based in Johannesburg, South Africa50
- Recycling companies based in Montreal, Canada49
- Recycling companies based in Philadelphia, United States49
- Recycling companies based in Vancouver, Canada48
- Recycling companies based in Auckland, New Zealand47
- Recycling companies based in Hamburg, Germany47
- Recycling companies based in Columbus, United States43
- Recycling companies based in Denver, United States43
- Recycling companies based in Miami, United States43
- Recycling companies based in Tampa, United States43
- Recycling companies based in Warszawa, Poland43
- Recycling companies based in Stockholm, Sweden42
- Recycling companies based in Birmingham, United Kingdom40
- Recycling companies based in Seattle, United States40
- Recycling companies based in Sheffield, United Kingdom39
- Recycling companies based in Charlotte, United States38
- Recycling companies based in Indianapolis, United States38
- Recycling companies based in San Diego, United States38
- Recycling companies based in Oslo, Norway37
- Recycling companies based in Surat, India36
- Recycling companies based in Amsterdam, Netherlands35
- Recycling companies based in Bengaluru, India35
- Recycling companies based in Cleveland, United States35
- Recycling companies based in Mississauga, Canada35
- Recycling companies based in Fort Worth, United States34
- Recycling companies based in Baltimore, United States33
- Recycling companies based in Jacksonville, United States33
- Recycling companies based in San Jose, United States32
- Recycling companies based in Milano, Italy30
- Recycling companies based in Detroit, United States27
- Recycling companies based in Pittsburgh, United States27
- Recycling companies based in Leeds, United Kingdom26
- Recycling companies based in Kansas City, United States25
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 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 recycling companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 29,818 recycling companies worldwide 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?
WM, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most recycling companies?
The United States leads with 7,346 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (2,768) and India (1,961). Every recycling companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most recycling companies?
London leads with 306 headquartered companies, followed by Sao Paulo (271) and Mumbai (170).
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 136,597 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 29,818 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled from the company graph between September 7, 2026 and September 15, 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.