Scotwaste Recycling Limited
Registered name: SCOTWASTE RECYCLING LIMITED
Part of Pandagreen Limited groupScotwaste Recycling Limited made £4.1m revenue and a £7.2k loss in the year to 30 Dec 2025.
Scotwaste Recycling Limited’s revenue fell 10% to £4.1m in the year to 30 Dec 2025, with a loss of £7.2k and 37 employees. The company is classified under “collection of non-hazardous waste” and is based in Bathgate; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bathgate, Scotland
- Age
- 8 yrs · since 2017
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Dec 2023 | 30 Dec 2024 | 30 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £4.8m | £4.6m | £4.1m |
| Cost of sales | £3.7m | £3.4m | £3.2m |
| Gross profit | £1.1m | £1.1m | £884k |
| Operating profit | £279k | £276k | £11.7k |
| Profit before tax | £254k | £254k | −£10.5k |
| Profit after tax | £191k | £180k | −£7.2k |
| Profit (best available) | £191k | £180k | −£7.2k |
| Employees (average) | 40 | 38 | 37 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4% | 3.9% | −0.2% |
| Gross margin | 23.1% | 24.8% | 21.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £119k | £120k | £111k |
| Profit per employee | £4.8k | £4.7k | −£195 |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼4.3% | ▼10.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼5.9% | ▼104% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼5% | ▼2.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.1m | £272k | £134k |
| Net assets | £1.6m | £1.1m | £1.1m |
| Fixed assets | £1.4m | £1.2m | £1.8m |
| Current assets | £2.2m | £1.1m | £848k |
| Debtors | £838k | £704k | £490k |
| Deferred income | £251k | £294k | £283k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 21.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £111k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£195
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 44.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 6.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11.9%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▼1%
- Now £1.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼51%
- Now £134k
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 37
- Deferred income
- ▼4%
- Now £283k
- Fixed assets
- ▲51%
- Now £1.8m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Pandagreen Limited (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- DM Topco Limited75–100%
- Scotwaste Recycling Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (10)
- Peak Waste Recycling LimitedLiquidationRev. £8.5m · Profit £1.1m
- Tyrone Energy LtdRev. £2.5m · Profit £66.3k
- Fletchers Waste Management LimitedRev. £0 · Profit £3.5m
- Acumen Group Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Associated Waste Management LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bagnall & Morris (Waste Services) LtdFigures not disclosed
- DM Holdco LimitedFigures not disclosed
- DM Opco LimitedFigures not disclosed
- JWS Holdings Group LimitedRev. — · Profit −£1.4m
- WSR Recycling LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Similar profitable businesses
- Clearance and Clean Up LimitedSheffield · Collection of non-hazardous waste
- Revenue
- £3m
- Profit
- £247k
- Staff
- 29
- Stowmarket Skips LtdStowmarket · Collection of non-hazardous waste
- Revenue
- £6.2m
- Profit
- £1.8m
- Staff
- 70
- Assured International LimitedKidwelly · Collection of non-hazardous waste
- Revenue
- £6.5m
- Profit
- £2.5m
- Staff
- 8
- Lowes Metals and Recycling LimitedLondon · Collection of non-hazardous waste
- Revenue
- £8.7m
- Profit
- £711k
- Staff
- 17
- Cinco Recycling LimitedLondon · Collection of non-hazardous waste
- Revenue
- £1.9m
- Profit
- £48.7k
- Staff
- 3
- Cox Skips LimitedTurners Hill · Collection of non-hazardous waste
- Revenue
- £9.5m
- Profit
- £591k
- Staff
- 31
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Dec 2025 (profit −£7.2k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Contains public sector information from Companies House licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data from Companies House, © Crown copyright. View the licence.