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Top 25 Zero waste materials companies based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 447 zero waste materials companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 15,929 professional contacts across them, including 6,441 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers zero waste materials 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 19, 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.

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447Companies
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The 25 largest zero waste materials companies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 447 zero waste materials companies based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to zero waste materials 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 evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202610001+10,402 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“DS Smith provides innovative packaging solutions, paper products and recycling services with a commitment to sustainability and a circular economy.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Partial evidenceDoncaster, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000817 contacts →

Partial evidence

“FCC Environment is one of the UK’s leading recycling and waste management companies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Indirect evidenceNorthampton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000312 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500146 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Recycle More, Worry Less.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200146 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Partial evidenceCorby, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500138 contacts →

Partial 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 19, 2026
7Indirect evidenceLeeds, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000133 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At Genuit Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose: to create a more sustainable built environment and a more resilient future for people and the planet.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500129 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Recorra is redefining commercial waste management and recycling for businesses across London and the South East.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Indirect evidenceSheffield, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200107 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Loadhog are a King's Award winning Sheffield based company, who design and manufacture innovative reusable packaging products aimed at making some of Europe’s largest…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20091 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We are a sustainable packaging start-up.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Partial evidenceNorthallerton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50088 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are the biggest waste management company in North Yorkshire.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50086 contacts →

Partial 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 19, 2026
13Indirect evidenceScunthorpe, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,00074 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Partial evidenceGrantham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50068 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Established in 1997, Mid-UK Recycling are an independent waste management company with a proven record of working with businesses and local authorities to achieve a genuine 100%…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Partial evidenceNewark, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20060 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Greenzone Facilities management Limited specialise in providing national recycling and waste management solutions for companies, focusing on diverting waste from landfill and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Indirect evidenceEdinburgh, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20059 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Vegware is the global specialist in plant-based compostable foodservice packaging.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Indirect evidenceBirchwood, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50059 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“PACFORT GROUP specialises in manufacturing and supplying of eco-friendly paper-based customized solutions for industrial and packaging applications.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18Indirect evidenceLiverpool, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50057 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The S Norton Group supports the circular economy by collecting, processing and distributing approximately 1.5m tonnes of recycled metals each year.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19Indirect evidenceCounty Tyrone, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20055 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Kiverco Recycling Plant has been World Famous for Toughness since 1993.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Indirect evidenceHuntingdon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20050 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Lil S.U.R.F Philosophy Sustainability, unboxing experiences, reduced returns and faster fulfilment are the values on which our business is founded.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Partial evidenceCity Of London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20049 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Mura Technology is pioneering a unique, globally scalable technology to recycle the 'unrecyclable'- mixed, contaminated waste plastics that cannot be processed via traditional…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22Indirect evidenceBognor Regis, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5046 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We've been supporting leading brands for nearly half a century.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23Partial evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5046 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Xampla is creator of natural materials for commercial applications.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24Partial evidenceSawston, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20043 contacts →

Partial evidence

“PULPEX is a world-class, sustainable packaging technology company with the single-minded mission to use material science innovation to enable and deliver much-needed and highly…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25Partial evidenceEly, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5043 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Ellgia provide waste management, recycling solutions and skip hire to businesses, the trade and home-owners across East Anglia and the East Midlands in Cambridgeshire…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Zero waste materials companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
40.4%Verified-email coverage
35.6Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
19.7%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
236
11-50
133
51-200
49
201-500
18
501-1,000
3
1,001-5,000
3
10001+
2

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 447 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 zero waste materials 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 “zero waste materials 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 zero waste materials 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 zero waste materials 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, 6,441 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 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Zero waste materials companies by metro

  • Zero waste materials companies in London88

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 zero waste materials 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 zero waste materials companies are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 447 zero waste materials 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 zero waste materials companies?

London leads with 88 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (15) and Leeds (10).

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 6,441 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 447 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 19, 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.