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As of 4 November 2026, 3,876 waste management & recycling companies are based in Germany; 238 are hiring right now and Herdecke has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 3,876
- Hiring now
- 238 · 40 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Municipal & commercial waste collection · 1,369
- Top city
- Herdecke · 102
- Parent market
- Utilities & infrastructure · 8,425
Waste management & recycling in Germany, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Municipal & commercial waste collection | 1,369 | 35% |
| Scrap metal trading | 1,093 | 28% |
| Recycling & sorting facilities | 856 | 22% |
| Skip hire & waste container rental | 578 | 15% |
| Hazardous waste management | 514 | 13% |
| Construction & demolition waste recycling | 458 | 12% |
| E waste recycling | 362 | 9% |
| Other waste management & recycling | 345 | 9% |
| Waste treatment & disposal facilities | 222 | 6% |
| Plastic recycling | 139 | 4% |
| Organic waste composting & digestion | 119 | 3% |
| Textile collection & recycling | 26 | 1% |
| Household recycling collection | 24 | 1% |
| Secure shredding & data destruction | 22 | 1% |
| Bioenergy plant operators | 7 | 0% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 291 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 2,910 · 120 |
| 11-50 employees | 322 · 32 |
| 51-200 employees | 199 · 44 |
| 201-500 employees | 99 · 26 |
| 501-1000 employees | 31 · 5 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 19 · 8 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 3 · 2 |
| 10,001+ employees | 2 · 1 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Herdecke | 102 | 3% |
| Lünen | 68 | 2% |
| Berlin | 58 | 1% |
| Hamburg | 47 | 1% |
| Düsseldorf | 37 | 1% |
| Köln | 36 | 1% |
| Frankfurt am Main | 35 | 1% |
| Bochum | 33 | 1% |
| Essen | 30 | 1% |
| Gelsenkirchen | 30 | 1% |
| München | 30 | 1% |
| Mannheim | 27 | 1% |
The biggest waste management & recycling companies in Germany
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The stack of waste management & recycling in Germany
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Other segments of utilities & infrastructure in Germany
Utilities & infrastructure in Germany, the whole market →
Energy grids & heat networks · 1,635 →
Energy retail & trading · 1,160 →
Telecom operators & isps · 969 →
Water & wastewater utilities · 730 →
Power generation · 649 →
Energy asset services · 201 →
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3,876 waste management & recycling companies are based in Germany; 238 are hiring right now and Herdecke has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/utilities_infrastructure/germany/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 Germany: questions
How many waste management & recycling companies are there in Germany?
3,876 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, scrap metal trading, recycling & sorting facilities. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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