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As of 4 November 2026, 680 waste management & recycling companies are based in Switzerland; 15 are hiring right now and Bern has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 680
- Hiring now
- 15 · 3 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Municipal & commercial waste collection · 295
- Top city
- Bern · 9
- Parent market
- Utilities & infrastructure · 1,374
Waste management & recycling in Switzerland, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Municipal & commercial waste collection | 295 | 43% |
| Recycling & sorting facilities | 216 | 32% |
| Skip hire & waste container rental | 163 | 24% |
| Scrap metal trading | 79 | 12% |
| Construction & demolition waste recycling | 63 | 9% |
| Other waste management & recycling | 61 | 9% |
| E waste recycling | 41 | 6% |
| Hazardous waste management | 40 | 6% |
| Waste treatment & disposal facilities | 37 | 5% |
| Organic waste composting & digestion | 33 | 5% |
| Plastic recycling | 24 | 4% |
| Household recycling collection | 9 | 1% |
| Wastewater & sewerage utilities | 6 | 1% |
| Bioenergy plant operators | 4 | 1% |
| Wastewater engineering | 4 | 1% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 51 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 532 · 2 |
| 11-50 employees | 57 · 2 |
| 51-200 employees | 35 · 9 |
| 201-500 employees | 4 · 2 |
| 501-1000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Bern | 9 | 1% |
| Basel | 6 | 1% |
| Giubiasco | 5 | 1% |
| Rorschach | 5 | 1% |
| St. Gallen | 5 | 1% |
| Cadenazzo | 4 | 1% |
| Glarus | 4 | 1% |
| Kaiseraugst Liebrüti | 4 | 1% |
| La Chaux-de-Fonds | 4 | 1% |
| Schaffhausen | 4 | 1% |
| Zürich | 4 | 1% |
| Appenzell | 3 | 0% |
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The stack of waste management & recycling in Switzerland
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680 waste management & recycling companies are based in Switzerland; 15 are hiring right now and Bern has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/utilities_infrastructure/switzerland/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 Switzerland: questions
How many waste management & recycling companies are there in Switzerland?
680 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, skip hire & waste container rental. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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