Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Salvage and recycling companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 7,629 salvage and recycling companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 74,851 professional contacts across them, including 19,185 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers salvage and 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 22, 2026. Country and city lists for salvage and 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 salvage and recycling companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,478 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a global leader in metal recycling with a heritage dating back to the 1950’s.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,169 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Stena Recycling är Sveriges ledande återvinningsbolag med närmare 1 900 medarbetare och 90 anläggningar, från Kiruna i norr till Malmö i söder.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 943 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Renewi is a pure-play waste-to-product company that gives new life to used materials, helping build a clean and circular economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 923 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “American Iron & Metal (AIM) is a family-owned, Canada-based company founded in 1936.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 829 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SA Recycling is one of the largest scrap metal recyclers in North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 817 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FCC Environment is one of the UK’s leading recycling and waste management companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 793 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OmniSource, LLC is one of North America’s largest metals recyclers, specializing in the collection, processing, and distribution of ferrous and nonferrous scrap.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 716 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WM New Zealand is New Zealand's leading resource recovery, recycling and waste, and environmental services provider, driven by our focus on safety, sustainability, and service and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 699 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gravita India Ltd is a world-renowned leader in the recycling industry, providing exceptional customer service and technical expertise to a global customer base in over 70…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 680 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Everybody knows a JJ’s Truck when they see one.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 657 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The David J.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 577 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Who We Are: Athens Services is a family-owned and operated waste collection and recycling company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 539 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sims Metal, division of Sims Limited, is a global metal recycler with operations that encompass the buying, processing and selling of ferrous and non-ferrous metals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 499 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 485 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 481 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1986, the Pick-n-Pull chain of self-service auto parts stores is one of the largest recyclers of end-of-life vehicles in the industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 472 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 417 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BINGO is a leading recycling and waste management company providing services across NSW, VIC and QLD.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 413 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “About us SA Metal Group (Pty) Ltd is South Africa’s oldest metal recycling company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 411 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alter Trading Corporation is one of the nation's leading scrap metal recyclers and brokers, with processing centers and offices throughout the central United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 411 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Global leader in online vehicle remarketing and recycling, Copart UK, was established in 2007 and handles over vehicles each year through online auctions for a variety of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 403 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Radius Recycling is one of the largest manufacturers and exporters of recycled metal products in North America with nearly 100 operating facilities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 397 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A maior empresa de reciclagem de alumínio da América do Sul e pioneira no setor de reciclagem de metais não ferrosos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 383 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “COMPANY OVERVIEW HMR Philippines Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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: salvage and 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 salvage and recycling companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of salvage and recycling companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name salvage and 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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Salvage and recycling companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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 salvage and 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
- Every country. Country and city lists for salvage and recycling companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “salvage and 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 salvage and 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 salvage and 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, 19,185 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 22, 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.
Salvage and recycling companies by location
23 lists · largest firstEvery Salvage and recycling companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Salvage and recycling companies based in the United States1,920
- Salvage and recycling companies based in the United Kingdom490
- Salvage and recycling companies based in Italy450
- Salvage and recycling companies based in Germany437
- Salvage and recycling companies based in India402
- Salvage and recycling companies based in Brazil384
- Salvage and recycling companies based in France316
- Salvage and recycling companies based in Canada241
- Salvage and recycling companies based in Spain216
- Salvage and recycling companies based in the Netherlands216
- Salvage and recycling companies based in Australia172
- Salvage and recycling companies based in Mexico111
- Salvage and recycling companies based in Poland105
- Salvage and recycling companies based in the United Arab Emirates90
- Salvage and recycling companies based in Belgium76
- Salvage and recycling companies based in Sweden61
- Salvage and recycling companies based in Switzerland53
- Salvage and recycling companies based in Portugal47
- Salvage and recycling companies based in South Africa44
- Salvage and recycling companies based in Denmark42
- Salvage and recycling companies based in Chile35
- Salvage and recycling companies based in Austria30
- Salvage and recycling companies based in Norway26
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 salvage and 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 salvage and recycling companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 7,629 salvage and 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?
Paprec, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most salvage and recycling companies?
The United States leads with 1,920 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (490) and Italy (450). Every salvage and recycling companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most salvage and recycling companies?
Sao Paulo leads with 50 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (45) and Dubai (36).
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 19,185 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 7,629 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 22, 2026.
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About this data
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.