Waste management & recycling in Netherlands
As of 4 November 2026, 982 waste management & recycling companies are based in Netherlands; 38 are hiring right now and Amsterdam has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 982
- Hiring now
- 38 · 9 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Recycling & sorting facilities · 357
- Top city
- Amsterdam · 18
- Parent market
- Utilities & infrastructure · 1,931
Waste management & recycling in Netherlands, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Recycling & sorting facilities | 357 | 36% |
| Scrap metal trading | 299 | 30% |
| Other waste management & recycling | 196 | 20% |
| Municipal & commercial waste collection | 175 | 18% |
| Skip hire & waste container rental | 168 | 17% |
| E waste recycling | 69 | 7% |
| Construction & demolition waste recycling | 64 | 7% |
| Hazardous waste management | 63 | 6% |
| Plastic recycling | 36 | 4% |
| Organic waste composting & digestion | 32 | 3% |
| Waste treatment & disposal facilities | 29 | 3% |
| Secure shredding & data destruction | 16 | 2% |
| Household recycling collection | 15 | 2% |
| Textile collection & recycling | 9 | 1% |
| Wastewater & sewerage utilities | 6 | 1% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 65 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 657 · 4 |
| 11-50 employees | 168 · 9 |
| 51-200 employees | 54 · 13 |
| 201-500 employees | 26 · 9 |
| 501-1000 employees | 7 · 2 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 4 · 1 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam | 18 | 2% |
| Rotterdam | 15 | 2% |
| Enschede | 14 | 1% |
| 's-Gravenhage | 9 | 1% |
| Diemen | 9 | 1% |
| Dordrecht | 9 | 1% |
| Apeldoorn | 8 | 1% |
| Botlek Rotterdam | 8 | 1% |
| Veenendaal | 8 | 1% |
| Eindhoven | 7 | 1% |
| Haarlem | 7 | 1% |
| Alkmaar | 6 | 1% |
The biggest waste management & recycling companies in Netherlands
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The stack of waste management & recycling in Netherlands
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Other segments of utilities & infrastructure in Netherlands
Utilities & infrastructure in Netherlands, the whole market →
Energy retail & trading · 401 →
Power generation · 255 →
Telecom operators & isps · 229 →
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982 waste management & recycling companies are based in Netherlands; 38 are hiring right now and Amsterdam has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/utilities_infrastructure/netherlands/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 Netherlands: questions
How many waste management & recycling companies are there in Netherlands?
982 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 recycling & sorting facilities, scrap metal trading, other waste management & recycling. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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