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Top 25 Recycling services companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 1,573 recycling services companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 16,897 professional contacts across them, including 6,467 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers recycling services 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 16, 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 services companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 1,478 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a global leader in metal recycling with a heritage dating back to the 1950’s.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 817 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “FCC Environment is one of the UK’s leading recycling and waste management companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 653 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 347 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Valpak, a Reconomy brand, is an EcoVadis Platinum certified leader in environmental compliance, recycling, and sustainability solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 216 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Reconomy Connect provides bespoke, end-to-end waste management services designed to boost efficiencies, advance sustainability, and optimise resource use.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 212 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 191 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LondonEnergy is the second-largest waste contract in the UK, handling and processing nearly tonnes of London’s waste every year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 162 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Countrystyle Recycling is a family-owned waste management and recycling company based in Kent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Go Green takes away the stress and dilemmas associated with waste management and recycling.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 147 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RED Industries is a leading provider of waste management services throughout the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Recycle More, Worry Less.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The NWH Group is a second-generation family business headquartered in Midlothian.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 140 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Here at Thalia Waste Management, we see waste differently.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Working with UK manufacturers & businesses to drive out costs and improve environmental performance through improved resource & materials management Challenge Axil to engineer…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Recorra is redefining commercial waste management and recycling for businesses across London and the South East.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 128 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ward are the largest independent metal recycling and waste management companies in the UK, providing professional waste management services, local & national skip hire on a range…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Collard Group is one of the UK’s leading demolition contractors and one of the largest privately owned waste management companies in the south of England.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Slicker Recycling is the market-leading specialist in the collection and recycling of waste oils and other hazardous workshop waste.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Cory Environmental is one of the UK's leading recycling, waste management and energy recovery companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are the biggest waste management company in North Yorkshire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Powerday operates the largest Materials Recycling Facility in Southern England, and manages one of London's most extensive stocks of skips.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Delivering sustainable and cost-effective waste and resource management solutions, ASH Group Ltd has grown from strength to strength to become one of the UK's leading waste and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 16, 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 services 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 services companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of recycling services companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name recycling services 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 services companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
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 1,573 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 recycling services 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 services 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 services 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 services 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, 6,467 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 16, 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.
Recycling services companies by metro
- Recycling services companies in London134
- Recycling services companies in Manchester36
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 services 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 services companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 1,573 recycling services 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?
EMR, headquartered in Warrington, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most recycling services companies?
London leads with 134 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (36) and Sheffield (22).
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 6,467 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,573 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 16, 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.
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