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Top 25 Paper and cardboard recyclers based in the United Kingdom

Name: Paper and cardboard recyclers based in the United Kingdom
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026 436 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 436 paper and cardboard recyclers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 17,675 professional contacts across them, including 7,200 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers paper and cardboard recyclers headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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 20, 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 20, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

436Companies

17,675Contacts tracked

7,200Verified emails

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The 25 largest paper and cardboard recyclers based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 436 paper and cardboard recyclers based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to paper and cardboard recyclers: 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.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	DS Smith	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	10001+	10,402 contacts →
	Partial 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 20, 2026
2	EMR	Indirect evidence	Warrington, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,478 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are a global leader in metal recycling with a heritage dating back to the 1950’s.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3	FCC Environment	Indirect evidence	Doncaster, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	817 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “FCC Environment is one of the UK’s leading recycling and waste management companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4	ENVA	Indirect evidence	Enva, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	653 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Enva is a full-service and leading provider of recycling and resource recovery solutions, employing over 1700 people at locations across the United Kingdom and Ireland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5	Countrystyle Recycling	Indirect evidence	Sittingbourne, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	201-500	162 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Countrystyle Recycling is a family-owned waste management and recycling company based in Kent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6	Bywaters	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	201-500	146 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Recycle More, Worry Less.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7	The NWH Group	Indirect evidence	Dalkeith, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	201-500	145 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The NWH Group is a second-generation family business headquartered in Midlothian.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8	First Mile Certified B Corp	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	201-500	141 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “First Mile are one of London's greenest recycling & waste management companies, helping over businesses reduce their carbon impact with a range of recycling & commercial waste…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
9	BARR	Indirect evidence	Cumnock, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	84 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Barr is one of Scotland's leading waste management companies, operating a variety of high quality waste treatment, recycling and residual disposal facilities throughout the West…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10	Cawleys Waste & Resource Management	Indirect evidence	Luton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	201-500	73 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “As one of the leading regional recycling companies in the UK and now part of SUEZ recycling and recovery UK, Cawleys is a dynamic British business where innovation builds on…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11	Mid-Uk Recycling	Indirect evidence	Grantham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	201-500	68 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Established in 1997, Mid-UK Recycling are an independent waste management company with a proven record of working with businesses and local authorities to achieve a genuine 100%…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
12	Riverridge	Indirect evidence	Belfast, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	201-500	67 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “RiverRidge is regarded as Northern Ireland’s most integrated waste and resource management company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13	Greenzone Facilities Management Limited	Indirect evidence	Newark, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	60 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Greenzone Facilities management Limited specialise in providing national recycling and waste management solutions for companies, focusing on diverting waste from landfill and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14	S Norton Group	Partial evidence	Liverpool, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	201-500	57 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The S Norton Group supports the circular economy by collecting, processing and distributing approximately 1.5m tonnes of recycled metals each year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
15	Malary LTD	Indirect evidence	Cottenham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	56 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Malary Ltd specialize in the recycling of hazardous waste and the production of Processed Fuel Oil We operate 7 recycling plants from our licensed 3 acre treatment centre based in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16	Kiverco	Indirect evidence	County Tyrone, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	55 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Kiverco Recycling Plant has been World Famous for Toughness since 1993.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
17	Denmaur	Indirect evidence	Sittingbourne, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	54 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Since 1983, Denmaur has been a trusted name in the print and publishing industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
18	Castle Environmental	Indirect evidence	Ilkeston, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	49 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Castle Environmental is a leading supplier of specialist waste treatment, disposal and recycling services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
19	Gaskells Waste Services	Indirect evidence	Bootle, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	48 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Gaskells are proud to be one of the largest independent and privately owned waste management companies in the north west of England.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
20	Bryson Recycling	Indirect evidence	Newtownabbey, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	201-500	47 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Northern Ireland’s largest social enterprise has been delivering recycling services since 1993.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
21	Swrnewstar	Indirect evidence	Alton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	47 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “SWRnewstar's approach identifies and delivers optimal waste solutions for our customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
22	Re-Gen	Indirect evidence	Newry, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	201-500	46 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Home to one of Europe's most advanced material recovery facility installations and with the recent addition of a municipal solid waste (MSW) facility, Re-Gen is strategically…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
23	URM UK Limited	Indirect evidence	Pontefract, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	201-500	46 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Urm (uk) limited” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
24	J&b Recycling LTD	Indirect evidence	Hartlepool, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	41 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “J&B Recycling, an FCC Environment company, has grown since 1998 from a small family managed business into a reputable, well established recycling and waste management company that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
25	Alutrade LTD	Indirect evidence	Oldbury, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	41 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We’re a family business that started out in 1987.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026

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: paper and cardboard recyclers. 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 paper and cardboard recyclers.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of paper and cardboard recyclers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name paper and cardboard recyclers. 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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Paper and cardboard recyclers based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026

40.7%Verified-email coverage

40.5Average contacts per company

11-50Median size (employees)

5.0%Largest-city concentration · London

Sep 20, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

173

11-50

151

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

10001+

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 436 companies.

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 paper and cardboard recyclers, 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 the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “paper and cardboard recyclers”. 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 paper and cardboard recyclers), 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 paper and cardboard recyclers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 7,200 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 20, 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.

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 paper and cardboard recyclers, 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 paper and cardboard recyclers are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 436 paper and cardboard recyclers headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?

DS Smith, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most paper and cardboard recyclers?

London leads with 22 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (16) and Birmingham (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 7,200 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 436 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 20, 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.