UK Business Succession Index

Waste Management & Recycling succession in London

276 of 1,182 waste management & recycling companies in London (23.4%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,182
Director aged 60+276
Exposure rate23.4%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology
1,182
Companies measured
276
Director 60+
89
Director 70+
23.4%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; waste management & recycling nationally runs at 35.9%.

MeasureCompanies
Waste Management & Recycling companies in London measured1,182
Oldest director aged 60 or over276
Oldest director aged 70 or over89

Of the 276 with a director over 60, 29 score 50 or higher on business quality. That figure is an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Waste Management & Recycling in other regions

Region60+Rate
Wales17845.5%
Yorkshire & The Humber29742.5%
South West23539.9%
West Midlands32639.7%
Scotland15739%
North West36938.2%
East of England33836.9%
East Midlands20736%

Other trades in London

Trade60+Rate
Lettings19,70332.8%
Consultancy Services17,83227.4%
Investment13,22128.4%
Investment / Fund Management10,97333%
Media9,15728.2%
Other Leisure8,94426.1%
Retail8,50914.5%
IT Services / Consultancy6,91215.2%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Facility & Field Services pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

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ExitRadar, "Waste Management & Recycling succession in London", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-waste/london/

Need a cut that is not published here, such as a different trade grouping, a finer geography or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,631,842 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director (94.0% of the 3,863,328 companies on the active register). A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over. We do not use the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses; see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 11 October 2026; updated quarterly, next update January 2027. Full methodology.