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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.
The 25 largest recycling companies based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. | |||||
| 2 | 905 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 728 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 559 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ALBA ist einer der führenden Umweltdienstleister und Rohstoffversorger in Europa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 530 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At TOMRA Recycling, we are transforming resource recovery through advanced waste and metal sorting that turns waste into value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 439 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Enabling the circular economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 330 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 329 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir schaffen die Kreislaufgesellschaft.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 312 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Heraeus Precious Metals is one of the world’s leading players in the precious metals industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 295 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die EEW Energy from Waste GmbH (EEW) ist eines der führenden Unternehmen in Europa auf dem Gebiet der thermischen Abfall- und Klärschlammverwertung.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 275 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 273 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “afb is the first non profit IT Asset Recovery Solution Provider in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 256 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cabka is creating clever and transformative packaging solutions for moving goods around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 240 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die TSR Group gibt Metallen ein neues Leben.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1971, HSM has pursued a clear strategy – a consistent commitment to quality “Made in Germany”.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “REMONDIS Recycling is a recycling specialist for glass and plastics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CRONIMET, founded in Karlsruhe in 1980, is a global specialist for stainless steel scrap, ferroalloys and primary metals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aus Tradition Neues wagen!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wer wir sind: Die Rohstoffe der Welt sind begrenzt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “REMEX specialises in the professional management of mineral waste and the recovery of the resources it contains.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Doppstadt Group Doppstadt, a family-run company with headquarters in Velbert, Germany, was founded in 1965.” 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 based in Germany at a glance
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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 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
- 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.
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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 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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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.