Since 2009
We own the lorries, the facility and the numbers
Most waste "recyclers" are brokers. We run our own fleet and our own materials recovery facility, which is why we can tell you where your waste went rather than where it was sold.
- 240 employees
- 68 vehicles
- 2 sorting facilities
Our story
Started because the paperwork did not add up
In 2009 our founder was a facilities manager with a recycling report that claimed 88% diversion. She asked to see the weighbridge tickets. Nobody could produce them.
Clean & Recycle was built on the opposite premise: every tonne is weighed, every load is tracked, and the report is generated from the weighbridge rather than written by an account manager.
Fifteen years on we operate two materials recovery facilities, a fleet of 68 vehicles and a compliance team whose only job is making sure your duty-of-care trail is complete before you ever have to ask for it.
If we cannot evidence it, we do not claim it.
How we work
Four commitments we are held to
These are written into our client contracts, not just our website.
Weighed, not estimated
Every figure we report traces back to a weighbridge ticket you can request at any time.
No hidden rebadging
We never reclassify contaminated recycling as recovered. If a load fails, your report says so.
Fixed, honest pricing
No gate-fee surcharges mid-contract and no automatic annual uplift buried in clause 14.
Reduction before collection
Our audits regularly cut client volumes by a fifth. We would rather collect less and keep you longer.
Directly employed crews
No subcontracted drivers. The person on your site is on our payroll and our training programme.
Audit-ready by default
ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 certified, with consignment notes filed the day a load moves.
Milestones
Fifteen years, briefly
2009
Founded with two vehicles
Operating out of a rented yard in Leeds, serving eleven local businesses.
2013
First sorting facility opens
Bringing materials recovery in-house ended our reliance on third-party gate reporting.
2017
ISO 14001 certification
Independent verification of the environmental management system behind our reporting.
2020
Fleet electrification begins
First twelve electric collection vehicles deployed on urban rounds.
2023
Second facility and AD partnership
Organic waste routed to anaerobic digestion rather than composting, roughly doubling energy recovery.
2025
94% average diversion
Across every client site, independently audited for the third consecutive year.
The people
Who you will actually deal with
Every client has a named account manager and a direct line to operations. No ticket queue.
Amara Oyelaran
Founder & Managing Director
Former facilities manager. Still reads the weighbridge reports every Monday.
Daniel Whitcombe
Operations Director
Runs the fleet and the rounds. Twenty-two years in municipal and commercial collections.
Sana Qureshi
Head of Compliance
Owns the duty-of-care trail, the permits and the ISO audits.
Marcus Feld
Head of Client Reporting
Builds the monthly reports and takes the awkward questions from your auditors.
Where we are today
- Directly employed staff
- 240
- Collection vehicles
- 68
- Business sites served
- 1,100+
- Continuous operation
- 15 yrs
Come and see the facility
We run site visits every other Thursday. Watch a load come off the lorry and follow it through the sorting line.