101 Best Waste Management Companies and Startups in the UK

4 years ago

This article showcases some of the most popular players operating in the Waste Management space. Our analysts selected these companies because they excel in one of the following categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Market Position
    • Market domination
    • Market leader
    • Strong market competitor

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SEMRush.

This list may include both state and private ventures providing the most value within the Waste Management industry.

Top Waste Management Companies


United Utilities

United Utilities brings 3 million households and 200,000 businesses, clean, clear water and to take it all away again.

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Selected Interventions

Transforming technology for large enterprises in the municipal and commercial smart waste collection sector

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HIPPO

HIPPO creates and develops ways to dispose of their waste or unwanted materials in an ethical, efficient and cost-effective manner.

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Renewi

Renewi is a waste-to-product company.

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Clearabee

Clearabee is UK’s largest ‘in-house’ man and van style rubbish clearance company.

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Mick George

Mick George is the leading suppliers to the construction industry, specialising in providing bulk excavation & earthmoving services.

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Biffa

Biffa is an integrated waste management company providing collection, landfill, recycling and special waste services in the UK.

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Viridor Waste Management Limited

Viridor Waste Management Limited offers recycling, renewable energy, and waste management services.

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Kent Enviro Power

FCC Environment is one of the UK’s leading waste and resource management company.

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Too Good To Go

Too Good To Go develops an app for fighting food waste and saving delicious food.

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Arvia Technology

Arvia’s treatment system offers cost effective removal of trace problematic, toxic or hazardous organics at trace level in water.

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GRS Roadstone

GRS is the UK’s largest independent supplier of natural and recycled aggregate, along with waste removal and transport services.

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Filamentive

Using waste plastics and bioplastics to manufacture high performance consumables for 3D printing – waste stream to mainstream!

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Bristol Wood Recycling Project(BWRP)

Saving resources from waste. Providing Affordable timber and resources to local community.

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SLR Consulting

SLR is an environmental consultancy that provides advice and support on a wide range of strategic and site-specific environmental issues.

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Recycling Technologies

Recycling Technologies specializes in waste management and engineering processes and helps customers achieve financial gains from waste.

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Globechain

Globechain is a B2B reuse marketplace connecting businesses to charities, creating social impact data.

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Grundon Waste Management

Grundon Waste Management is a provider of comprehensive services such as industrial cleaning, disposal, recycling and hazardous wastes.

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Forge Waste and Recycling

Forge Waste & Recycling is providing waste management services.

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RTS Waste Management

RTS Waste Management is a recycling and waste management company.

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Augean

Augean PLC is engaged in the provision of specialist services focused on hazardous waste.

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NWH

NWH provides waste collection services to the Waste Management.

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Waste2Tricity

Waste2Tricity engages in developing, funding, and supporting energy-from-waste deployment projects in the United Kingdom.

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Basingstoke Skip Hire and Southern Waste Management

Basingstoke Skip Hire and Southern Waste Management Ltd is a major supplier of waste management solutions throughout the South.

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Straight Ltd

Straight Ltd operates as a supplier of high-quality waste and recycling solutions to a broad range of customers.

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Reclamet

Reclamet holds both Waste Management and Waste Carriers Licences.

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Dunmow Group

We are the leading waste management company based in Essex offering skip hire and a range of other waste management services.

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Quick Wasters

We are professional in providing a reliable Waste Removal, rubbish clearance services.

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RiverRidge Rethinking Resources

RiverRidge is regarded as Northern Ireland’s largest independent waste management company.

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Econic Technologies

Econic Technologies develops new catalysts and processes for the manufacture of polymers from CO2.

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Plastic Energy

Plastic Energy offers a global and sustainable solution to prevent plastic pollution.

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Britannia Group

Britannia Services Group is a national cleaning company providing a comprehensive range of premises support services & maintenance.

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Biogen Gwyriad

Biogen Gwyriad operates anaerobic digestion plants which recycle food waste to generate renewable energy and biofertilisers for farmland.

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Pure Clean Waste Solutions Ltd

Waste service solutions

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Mid UK Recycling

Mid-UK Recycling is a waste management company.

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Green’s

Green’s specialises in the design and manufacture of economisers and waste heat recovery systems.

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ISYS Interactive Systems

ISYS Interactive Systems has built a strong client base and reputation for reliable management software.

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CCL North

CCL North is a secure collection, recycling and data destruction for IT & WEEE equipment.

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Avensys

Avensys offer Bio-Medical Equipment Engineering Services.

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CorNatural

CorNatural develops bio-based sustainable products to offer a range of natural products.

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Harpers Environmental

Harpers Environmental is operates in the Industrial Services and Waste Management Sector with a reputation for safe and effective solutions.

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SEaB Energy

SEaB Energy has patented a micro anaerobic digestion system for onsite and in-building conversion of organics to energy, water, & fertiliser

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Strathkelvin Instruments

Strathkelvin Instruments is a supplier in Precision Dissolved Oxygen Measurement and Respirometry.

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The Shred Centre

The Shred Centre offer shred all other confidential waste materials, including hard drive shredding and branded product destruction.

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Levenseat

Levenseat is a Recycling & Resource Management company based in Central Scotland.

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Natures Bio Solutions UK

Pond algae treatment, fountain cleaner and septic tank wastewater treatment products.

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John Pointon & Sons Ltd

John Pointon & Sons provides waste disposal, recycling and environmental solutions for animal by products and food waste.

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IWJS Ltd

IWJS is a privately held company that provides waste management and industrial cleaning services.

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Total Recycling Services

We provide customer focused, competent, cost efficient total waste management services to businesses across the UK.

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Carbon8 Systems

Carbon 8 Systems provides solutions for the treatment of industrial waste.

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Whitham Mills Engineering

Whitham Mills Engineering designs, manufactures, installs and maintains high-quality waste processing equipment to customers.

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Crapper & Sons Landfill Ltd

Crapper & Sons Landfill operates in recycling, waste management, supply of recycled aggregates, landfill and groundworks.

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BHR Group

BHR Group is an independent technology organisation providing engineering consultancy,

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Agrivert Group

Agrivert Group owner-operator of three Anaerobic Digestion (AD), two in-vessel composting and three green waste composting plants.

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ASM Organic Recyclates

ASM Organic Recyclates Ltd develops innovative patent-protected technology that converts waste into usable materials.

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Greyparrot

AI-based computer vision solutions to power next generation robotics and smart systems for the waste management industry

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Future Planet Capital

Future Planet Capital is the world’s foremost global innovation investment platform.

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4NEW

4NEW is a United Kingdom company that owns and operates Waste to Energy treatment plants.

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Skrap

Skrap is an on-demand mobile marketplace for skip hire and other waste collection services.

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RED Industries

Red Industries is the hazardous and non-hazardous waste management business

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CG Pearce

CG Pearce covers all things drain and sewer cleaning, septic tank and drain camera inspection.

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Ellipsis Earth

Ellipsis Earth specializes in detecting, categorising and tracking plastic waste in the environment and throughout supply chains

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Impact Recycling

Impact Recycling has developed a breakthrough plastic recycling technology which separates the components of mixed plastic waste.

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Eco Plastics

ECO Plastics is a reprocessor of recyclable materials sourced from waste contractors and local authorities in the UK and Ireland.

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J & B Recycling

J & B Recycling provides diverse and innovative solutions in waste collection, recovery and recycling to public and private sectors.

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Dynamic Flow Technologies

Dynamic Flow Technologies designs and manufactures wastewater meters.

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Waste Systems

Waste Systems has developed machinery that separates out difficult waste materials,

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Takestock

Like an eBay for the food industry, we enable unwanted stock sellers to trade out rather than waste food.

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EMS Turnkey Waste Recycling Solutions

EMS provides complete recycling systems designed around your needs.

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PVC Recycling

PVC Recycling provides recycling services for polyvinyl chloride (PVC) derived from materials.

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Re Pet

Re Pet is a manufacturer of recyclable plastic sheeting for food companies and supermarkets.

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Waterhound Futures Limited

Cloud-based SaaS forecasting modelling tool for performance optimisation of water and wastewater treatment systems and processes.

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Waste2ES

Imagine the power to create value from food waste

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itscollected

Online waste collection marketplace based in London

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JFS Howla Hay Biogas

Howla Hay Farm is a 200 acre site, situated near to Guisborough

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FutureFuel Renewables

FutureFuel Renewables is waste-to-energy solutions company.

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SITA Cornwall Limited

SITA Cornwall Limited provides recycling and waste management services to households and businesses in Cornwall.

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Recycling Lives

Recycling Lives provides ethical and environmentally sound recycling and waste management solutions.

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P&L Software Systems

P&L Software Systems is provides waste management software for customers worldwide.

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Blackrow Group

Specialist provider of engineering services to the Food, Process, Power Generation and Renewable Energy Industries.

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Cambridge Wood Works

Friendly alternative to skips for timber and wood waste, collecting, reusing and recycling as much as we can.

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New Earth Solutions

New Earth Solutions is a biological waste treatment and recycling company engaged in the composting of source segregated organic wastes.

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Freelancers

Freelancers Ltd. provides support services to the construction industry in London and the South East. It offers and manages a range of

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Slicker Recycling

Slicker Recycling specializes in the collection and recycling of hazardous workshop waste and the provision of associated waste management.

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Riverside Waste Machinery

Riverside Waste Machinery is an independent provider of waste balers, baler servicing, baler consumables.

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Blue Sky Plastic Recycling

Blue Sky Plastic Recycling in recycling plastics from waste electrical and electronic.

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Blue Sky Bio

Blue Sky Bio is UK government backed clean-tech R&D firm.

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JBM International

JBM International, based in Staffordshire, is focused on fulfilling a commitment to innovative and sustainable waste management.

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Legasea

Environmental Oil & Gas service company with a focus on the Circular Economy for Subsea Production Systems and Controls.

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Blakeley’s Recycling

Blakeley’s Recycling is a privately held company that provides waste management and recycling services.

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Future Industrial Services

Future Industrial Services offered a range of Waste Management and specialised Industrial Services to meet the requirement of Government.

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Cleanline Waste Water Solutions Ltd.

Cleanline Waste Water Solutions, a provider of specialty compliance and environmental services.

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Advetec

Advetec provides bio-degradation, bio thermic digester technology to minimize environmental impact.

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Grosvenor Services

Grosvenor Services is a leading supplier of all-round cleaning and facilities management services.

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Inetec

Inetec provides waste management solutions for food manufacturers and retailers.

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Apsu Environmental

Apsu Environmental is develops advanced treatment stations (ATS) to decontaminate and recycle road water run-off.

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Recycle Force

Recycle Force is a waste management and recycling company.

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SITA UK Limited

SITA UK Limited is a British waste management company.

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Pulp Friction Ltd

Pulp Friction Ltd offers waste paper sorting and bailing services. Pulp Friction Limited offers waste management and paper recycling.

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Impetus Waste Management Ltd

Impetus Waste Management provides non-hazardous and hazardous waste management and disposal services.

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AeroThermal Group Ltd

AeroThermal offers a waste treatment solution that delivers significant environmental benefits by diverting waste from landfill .

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