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Top 25 Recycling companies based in the United Kingdom

Name: Recycling companies based in the United Kingdom
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 7, 2026 2,768 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 2,768 recycling companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 39,820 professional contacts across them, including 14,991 with verified work emails and 2,010 with mobile numbers. London is the largest hub.

This list covers recycling companies 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 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

2,768Companies

39,820Contacts tracked

14,991Verified emails

2,010Mobile numbers

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The 25 largest recycling companies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 2,768 recycling companies based in the United Kingdom, 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.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	DS Smith	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	10001+	10,402 contacts →
	“DS Smith provides innovative packaging solutions, paper products and recycling services with a commitment to sustainability and a circular economy.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
2	BIFFA	Strong evidence	High Wycombe, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	5,001-10,000	3,253 contacts →
	“Founded in London in 1912, Biffa is a leading UK nationwide integrated waste management business providing collection, treatment, recycling and technologically-driven energy…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
3	EMR	Strong evidence	Warrington, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,478 contacts →
	“We are a global leader in metal recycling with a heritage dating back to the 1950’s.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
4	FCC Environment	Strong evidence	Doncaster, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	1,001-5,000	817 contacts →
	“FCC Environment is one of the UK’s leading recycling and waste management companies.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
5	ENVA	Strong evidence	Enva, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	1,001-5,000	653 contacts →
	“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: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
6	BUY IT Direct Group	Strong evidence	Huddersfield, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	1,001-5,000	394 contacts →
	“Buy It Direct Group has three main divisions - online product sales, TV recycling, and refurbishment and repair.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
7	Valpak Limited	Strong evidence	Stratford-upon-avon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	201-500	347 contacts →
	“Valpak, a Reconomy brand, is an EcoVadis Platinum certified leader in environmental compliance, recycling, and sustainability solutions.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
8	GRS Group	Indirect evidence	Nuneaton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	501-1,000	335 contacts →
	“GRS is Britain’s independent supplier of essential construction materials, from low-carbon recycled aggregates and decorative landscaping products to high-volume bulk aggregates…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
9	Glencore UK	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	201-500	324 contacts →
	“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: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
10	Olleco	Indirect evidence	Northampton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	501-1,000	312 contacts →
	“Olleco is one of the UK’s most progressive circular economy companies, leading the way for the food and hospitality industries to embrace a more sustainable future.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
11	Reconomy Connect	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	501-1,000	216 contacts →
	“Reconomy Connect provides bespoke, end-to-end waste management services designed to boost efficiencies, advance sustainability, and optimise resource use.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
12	CSG	Indirect evidence	Whiteley, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	501-1,000	212 contacts →
	“Founded in 1934, we are one of the UK’s leading suppliers of specialist waste management solutions, offering a diverse range of services to householders and businesses nationwide.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
13	Londonenergy	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	501-1,000	191 contacts →
	“LondonEnergy is the second-largest waste contract in the UK, handling and processing nearly tonnes of London’s waste every year.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
14	Recycling Lives Services	Strong evidence	Preston, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	179 contacts →
	“Recycling Lives Services provide total waste & resource management solutions including Batteries and Packaging Compliance.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
15	Wastecare Group	Strong evidence	Wakefield, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	201-500	173 contacts →
	“Established in 1980, Wastecare offer a unique recycling and waste management service that enables waste producers from all industrial and business sectors to manage and report…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
16	Countrystyle Recycling	Strong evidence	Sittingbourne, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	201-500	162 contacts →
	“Countrystyle Recycling is a family-owned waste management and recycling company based in Kent.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
17	Vintage Cash COW	Indirect evidence	Leeds, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	501-1,000	152 contacts →
	“Vintage Cash Cow is a fast-growing circular economy business on a mission to make it easy and rewarding for people to declutter responsibly!” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
18	GO Green LTD	Strong evidence	Doncaster, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	150 contacts →
	“Go Green takes away the stress and dilemmas associated with waste management and recycling.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
19	RED Industries	Indirect evidence	Burntwood, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	201-500	147 contacts →
	“RED Industries is a leading provider of waste management services throughout the country.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
20	Bywaters	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	201-500	146 contacts →
	“Recycle More, Worry Less.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
21	Plastic Energy	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	146 contacts →
	“Plastic Energy is the world’s leading chemical recycling company with its technology HQ in central London and industrial plants in Almeria and Seville, Spain.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
22	The NWH Group	Indirect evidence	Dalkeith, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	201-500	145 contacts →
	“The NWH Group is a second-generation family business headquartered in Midlothian.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
23	First Mile Certified B Corp	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	201-500	141 contacts →
	“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: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
24	Thalia Waste Management	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	501-1,000	140 contacts →
	“Here at Thalia Waste Management, we see waste differently.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
25	AXIL	Indirect evidence	Corby, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	201-500	138 contacts →
	“Working with UK manufacturers & businesses to drive out costs and improve environmental performance through improved resource & materials management Challenge Axil to engineer…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 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: 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 the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 7, 2026

37.6%Verified-email coverage

5.0%Mobile-number coverage

14.4Average contacts per company

11-50Median size (employees)

10.5%Largest-city concentration · London

Sep 7, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

1,315

11-50

897

51-200

362

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

10001+

Freshness & accuracy

How recently the business emails on this list were verified

Email last verified

13,8760–30

1,03231–60

461–90

390–180

76180+

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 the United Kingdom 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 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, 14,991 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 the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 2,768 recycling companies 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 recycling companies?

London leads with 290 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (61) and Birmingham (40).

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 14,991 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,768 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.