Waste management & recycling in Brazil
As of 4 November 2026, 2,113 waste management & recycling companies are based in Brazil; 5 are hiring right now and São Paulo has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 2,113
- Hiring now
- 5 · 3 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Municipal & commercial waste collection · 862
- Top city
- São Paulo · 150
- Parent market
- Utilities & infrastructure · 10,916
Waste management & recycling in Brazil, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Municipal & commercial waste collection | 862 | 41% |
| Recycling & sorting facilities | 553 | 26% |
| Hazardous waste management | 533 | 25% |
| Other waste management & recycling | 521 | 25% |
| Skip hire & waste container rental | 316 | 15% |
| Scrap metal trading | 263 | 12% |
| E waste recycling | 230 | 11% |
| Waste treatment & disposal facilities | 124 | 6% |
| Plastic recycling | 105 | 5% |
| Construction & demolition waste recycling | 88 | 4% |
| Organic waste composting & digestion | 60 | 3% |
| Secure shredding & data destruction | 9 | 0% |
| Bioenergy plant operators | 6 | 0% |
| Wastewater & sewerage utilities | 6 | 0% |
| Textile collection & recycling | 4 | 0% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 144 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 1,373 · 0 |
| 11-50 employees | 388 · 0 |
| 51-200 employees | 146 · 0 |
| 201-500 employees | 36 · 2 |
| 501-1000 employees | 14 · 2 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 7 · 1 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 3 · 0 |
| 10,001+ employees | 2 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| São Paulo | 150 | 7% |
| Belém | 45 | 2% |
| Rio de Janeiro | 43 | 2% |
| Curitiba | 31 | 1% |
| San José | 24 | 1% |
| Guarulhos | 20 | 1% |
| Campinas | 14 | 1% |
| Jardim | 13 | 1% |
| Santa | 12 | 1% |
| Santos | 11 | 1% |
| Baganga | 10 | 0% |
| Santo André | 10 | 0% |
The biggest waste management & recycling companies in Brazil
The largest companies of the segment, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.
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The stack of waste management & recycling in Brazil
From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.
Other segments of utilities & infrastructure in Brazil
Utilities & infrastructure in Brazil, the whole market →
Telecom operators & isps · 7,675 →
Energy retail & trading · 629 →
Power generation · 362 →
Water & wastewater utilities · 218 →
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2,113 waste management & recycling companies are based in Brazil; 5 are hiring right now and São Paulo has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/utilities_infrastructure/brazil/waste_management_and_recycling)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
Waste management & recycling in Brazil: questions
How many waste management & recycling companies are there in Brazil?
2,113 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Utilities & infrastructure → Waste management & recycling → leaf niches such as municipal & commercial waste collection, recycling & sorting facilities, hazardous waste management. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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