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As of 4 November 2026, 3,990 waste management & recycling companies are based in United Kingdom; 45 are hiring right now and London has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 3,990
- Hiring now
- 45 · 18 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Skip hire & waste container rental · 1,496
- Top city
- London · 74
- Parent market
- Utilities & infrastructure · 6,486
Waste management & recycling in United Kingdom, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Skip hire & waste container rental | 1,496 | 37% |
| Municipal & commercial waste collection | 1,235 | 31% |
| Recycling & sorting facilities | 612 | 15% |
| Scrap metal trading | 601 | 15% |
| Other waste management & recycling | 522 | 13% |
| Hazardous waste management | 469 | 12% |
| E waste recycling | 292 | 7% |
| Waste treatment & disposal facilities | 130 | 3% |
| Plastic recycling | 123 | 3% |
| Construction & demolition waste recycling | 97 | 2% |
| Organic waste composting & digestion | 81 | 2% |
| Secure shredding & data destruction | 42 | 1% |
| Household recycling collection | 39 | 1% |
| Textile collection & recycling | 19 | 0% |
| Bioenergy plant operators | 10 | 0% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 331 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 2,929 · 4 |
| 11-50 employees | 495 · 8 |
| 51-200 employees | 174 · 8 |
| 201-500 employees | 45 · 15 |
| 501-1000 employees | 7 · 5 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 6 · 4 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 1 · 1 |
| 10,001+ employees | 2 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| London | 74 | 2% |
| Mon | 44 | 1% |
| Birmingham | 37 | 1% |
| Croydon | 35 | 1% |
| Sheffield | 30 | 1% |
| Nottingham | 19 | 0% |
| Manchester | 18 | 0% |
| Bolton | 15 | 0% |
| Aylesford | 12 | 0% |
| Glasgow | 12 | 0% |
| Leeds | 11 | 0% |
| Liverpool | 11 | 0% |
The biggest waste management & recycling companies in United Kingdom
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The stack of waste management & recycling in United Kingdom
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Other segments of utilities & infrastructure in United Kingdom
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3,990 waste management & recycling companies are based in United Kingdom; 45 are hiring right now and London has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/utilities_infrastructure/united-kingdom/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 United Kingdom: questions
How many waste management & recycling companies are there in United Kingdom?
3,990 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 skip hire & waste container rental, municipal & commercial waste collection, recycling & sorting facilities. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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