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Top 14 Salvage and recycling companies based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 44 salvage and recycling companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 952 professional contacts across them, including 198 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.
This list covers salvage and recycling companies headquartered in South Africa, 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 22, 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 14 largest salvage and recycling companies based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 413 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “About us SA Metal Group (Pty) Ltd is South Africa’s oldest metal recycling company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 172 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Neopak is a world-class South African business with the core competence and exclusive focus on the manufacturing of high quality recycled containerboard and related paper products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AST Recycling is a leading IT asset disposal, electronic waste and scrap metal recycling company, certified to ISO 9001, 14001, and 27001 standards.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our experience and expertise in our field sets us apart from any competitor in South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Universal Recycling Company is a scrap metal recycling company, processing and trading non-ferrous scrap metal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Abeddac Trading was registered on the 08 August 2001, with the sole purpose of trading and recycling scrap metal imports from neighbouring countries in Africa, as well as the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a boutique-style salvage operation and we specialize in handling specific and customized salvage solutions that cater to different industries e.g.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We collect recyclable waste from Households, Commercial and Industrial businesses, as well as other institutions, like Schools” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rustivia Metals is an established dynamic company dealing in ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metals using new technology and methods, pioneering the way to a total recycling and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dynamic Salvage Management (DSM) was established in June 2002 with the sole purpose of providing professional expertise and innovative services to the insurance industry as well…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ALL METAL TRADERS LTD are a scrap metal trading entity located in the heart of Derbyshire and within easy reach from the M1.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Salvage Yard in Selby Johannesburg.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Independent Waste Traders (PTY) Ltd is a company based out of E001 Fairway Square, Fairway Close, Parow, Western Cape, South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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: salvage and 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 salvage and recycling companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of salvage and recycling companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name salvage and 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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Salvage and recycling companies based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 44 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 salvage and 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 South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “salvage and 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 salvage and 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 salvage and recycling companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa 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, 198 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 22, 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 salvage and 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 salvage and recycling companies are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 44 salvage and recycling companies headquartered in South Africa 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?
SA Metal Group PTY LTD, headquartered in City Of Cape Town, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most salvage and recycling companies?
Johannesburg leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (5) and Durban (4).
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 198 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 44 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 22, 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.
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