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Top 25 Recycling companies based in Germany

RevenueBase identified 1,910 recycling companies headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 20,501 professional contacts across them, including 7,257 with verified work emails and 401 with mobile numbers. Berlin is the largest hub.

This list covers recycling companies headquartered in Germany, 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
1,910Companies
20,501Contacts tracked
7,257Verified emails
401Mobile numbers
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The 25 largest recycling companies based in Germany

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 1,910 recycling companies based in Germany, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 7, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to 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
1Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 20265,001-10,0001,276 contacts →

“Aurubis AG is a leading global provider of non-ferrous metals and one of the largest copper recyclers worldwide.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
2Strong evidenceLünen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 202610001+905 contacts →

“REMONDIS is one of the world’s leading privately run recycling, service and water companies with around 800 business locations in over 30 countries and across four continents.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
3Strong evidenceGrevenbroich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 20265,001-10,000728 contacts →

“Speira is a leading European aluminium rolling and recycling company, comprising a total of eleven recycling and production sites in Germany and Norway plus own research and…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
4Indirect evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 20265,001-10,000559 contacts →

“ALBA ist einer der führenden Umweltdienstleister und Rohstoffversorger in Europa.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
5Strong evidenceMülheim-kärlich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 20261,001-5,000530 contacts →

“At TOMRA Recycling, we are transforming resource recovery through advanced waste and metal sorting that turns waste into value.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
6Indirect evidenceKoeln, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 20261,001-5,000439 contacts →

“Enabling the circular economy.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
7Indirect evidenceAschheim, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 2026501-1,000330 contacts →

“At Reverse Logistics Group (RLG), we support thousands of customers worldwide on their journeys to become active contributors to the circular economy, ensuring a better planet for…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
8Indirect evidenceOberstdorf, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 20261,001-5,000329 contacts →

“Wir schaffen die Kreislaufgesellschaft.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
9Indirect evidenceHanau, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 20261,001-5,000312 contacts →

“Heraeus Precious Metals is one of the world’s leading players in the precious metals industry.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
10Indirect evidenceHelmstedt, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 20261,001-5,000295 contacts →

“Die EEW Energy from Waste GmbH (EEW) ist eines der führenden Unternehmen in Europa auf dem Gebiet der thermischen Abfall- und Klärschlammverwertung.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
11Indirect evidenceFrankfurt, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 20265,001-10,000275 contacts →

“As a global supplier of cutting-edge energy materials for lithium batteries, we strive to lead the energy industry by fostering technological innovation, whilst advocating for…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
12Indirect evidenceEttlingen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 2026501-1,000273 contacts →

“afb is the first non profit IT Asset Recovery Solution Provider in Europe.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
13Indirect evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 2026501-1,000256 contacts →

“Cabka is creating clever and transformative packaging solutions for moving goods around the world.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
14Indirect evidenceLünen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 20261,001-5,000240 contacts →

“Die TSR Group gibt Metallen ein neues Leben.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
15Indirect evidenceFrickingen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 2026501-1,000169 contacts →

“Since 1971, HSM has pursued a clear strategy – a consistent commitment to quality “Made in Germany”.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
16Strong evidenceEssen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 2026501-1,000151 contacts →

“REMONDIS Recycling is a recycling specialist for glass and plastics.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
17Strong evidenceBremen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 20261,001-5,000126 contacts →

“Nehlsen is a future-oriented company with the core business areas of recycling, waste disposal and cleaning and more than 2,500 employees at 76 national and international…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
18Strong evidenceAachen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 202651-200111 contacts →

“cylib GmbH is a research-based company for holistic battery recycling enabling the green energy transition by ensuring the supply of sustainable raw materials for the battery…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
19Indirect evidenceKarlsruhe, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 20261,001-5,000106 contacts →

“CRONIMET, founded in Karlsruhe in 1980, is a global specialist for stainless steel scrap, ferroalloys and primary metals.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
20Indirect evidenceDüsseldorf, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 2026201-500104 contacts →

“The German engineering company Lindemann was founded in 1913 and quickly built an excellent internationally reputation as manufacturer and supplier for high-quality metal…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
21Indirect evidenceWiesbaden-biebrich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 20261,001-5,00099 contacts →

“Aus Tradition Neues wagen!”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
22Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 20261,001-5,00097 contacts →

“Wer wir sind: Die Rohstoffe der Welt sind begrenzt.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
23Indirect evidenceIserlohn, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 20261,001-5,00097 contacts →

“Als Pioniere der Branche - und nun bereits in der vierten Generation unabhängig - zählt Lobbe zu den führenden Unternehmen in der Kreislaufwirtschaft und im Industrieservice.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
24Indirect evidenceDüsseldorf, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 2026501-1,00086 contacts →

“REMEX specialises in the professional management of mineral waste and the recovery of the resources it contains.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
25Indirect evidenceVelbert, GermanyHQ checked Sep 7, 2026201-50080 contacts →

“The Doppstadt Group Doppstadt, a family-run company with headquarters in Velbert, Germany, was founded in 1965.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026

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Recycling companies based in Germany at a glance

As of Sep 7, 2026
35.4%Verified-email coverage
2.0%Mobile-number coverage
10.7Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
3.7%Largest-city concentration · Berlin
Sep 7, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
846
11-50
504
51-200
276
201-500
84
501-1,000
35
1,001-5,000
35
5,001-10,000
6
10001+
2

Freshness & accuracy

How recently the business emails on this list were verified

Email last verified

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.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in Germany 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. Companies headquartered outside Germany 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, 7,257 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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Recycling companies by metro

  • Recycling companies in Berlin70
  • Recycling companies in Hamburg47

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 based in Germany?

RevenueBase identified 1,910 recycling companies headquartered in Germany 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?

Aurubis, headquartered in Hamburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most recycling companies?

Berlin leads with 70 headquartered companies, followed by Hamburg (47) and Munchen (21).

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 7,257 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,910 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.