Waste management & recycling in France
As of 5 November 2026, 1,763 waste management & recycling companies are based in France; 23 are hiring right now and Roubaix has the most.
As of 5 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 1,763
- Hiring now
- 23 · 6 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Municipal & commercial waste collection · 633
- Top city
- Roubaix · 47
- Parent market
- Utilities & infrastructure · 2,985
Waste management & recycling in France, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Municipal & commercial waste collection | 633 | 36% |
| Recycling & sorting facilities | 481 | 27% |
| Scrap metal trading | 436 | 25% |
| Other waste management & recycling | 296 | 17% |
| Skip hire & waste container rental | 283 | 16% |
| Hazardous waste management | 156 | 9% |
| Construction & demolition waste recycling | 134 | 8% |
| E waste recycling | 131 | 7% |
| Organic waste composting & digestion | 90 | 5% |
| Plastic recycling | 70 | 4% |
| Waste treatment & disposal facilities | 50 | 3% |
| Secure shredding & data destruction | 12 | 1% |
| Household recycling collection | 9 | 1% |
| Wastewater & sewerage utilities | 7 | 0% |
| Textile collection & recycling | 5 | 0% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 494 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 765 · 0 |
| 11-50 employees | 343 · 2 |
| 51-200 employees | 128 · 12 |
| 201-500 employees | 21 · 6 |
| 501-1000 employees | 8 · 2 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 3 · 1 |
| 10,001+ employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Roubaix | 47 | 3% |
| Paris | 43 | 2% |
| Bordeaux | 18 | 1% |
| Clermont-Ferrand | 7 | 0% |
| Lyon | 4 | 0% |
| Rillieux-la-Pape | 4 | 0% |
| Toulouse | 4 | 0% |
| Alès | 3 | 0% |
| Amiens | 3 | 0% |
| Arles | 3 | 0% |
| Asnières-sur-Seine | 3 | 0% |
| Beaumont-en-Verdunois | 3 | 0% |
The biggest waste management & recycling companies in France
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 France
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Other segments of utilities & infrastructure in France
Utilities & infrastructure in France, the whole market →
Telecom operators & isps · 455 →
Water & wastewater utilities · 272 →
Energy retail & trading · 243 →
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1,763 waste management & recycling companies are based in France; 23 are hiring right now and Roubaix has the most. (Breaknorm, 5 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/utilities_infrastructure/france/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 France: questions
How many waste management & recycling companies are there in France?
1,763 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, scrap metal trading. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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