Margins and profitability in collection of non-hazardous waste

Collection of non-hazardous wasteNACE 38.110

50 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 3.1 % of every krone.

18 % of the companies in this industry posted a negative operating result that year.

The distribution

What companies in the industry earned

One tenth of companies fell below -1.4 %, and one tenth above 10.7 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.

Top against weakest third

Top third
8.8 %
Weakest third
-0.4 %
Spread
9 percentage points
Equity ratio
30.4 %median of 50

Size

Profitability by size

Profitability by size
RevenueCompaniesMedian operating margin
20 to 100 m233.3 %
over 100 m242.9 %

Companies are split into revenue bands, with the median margin in each. Bands with fewer than ten companies are omitted, because the median becomes too unstable to show.

Public contracts

Who in the industry wins public contracts

19 of 50 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 38.0 %.

Those that win have median revenue of 104.5 m kr, against 78.7 m kr for those that do not. That is 1.3× as much. Note that this describes who wins, not evidence that contracts make companies large; large companies also find it easier to bid.

The 39 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.

  • Sola kommune4
  • Renovest IKS3
  • Forsvarsbygg2
  • Bardu kommune2
  • Indre Østfold kommune2

Contracts come from Doffin and TED. Our collection is not complete, and TED covers only contracts above the EEA threshold, so the figures are a floor and not a full count. We say what we find, not what exists.

Questions and answers

Common questions about collection of non-hazardous waste

What is a normal operating margin in collection of non-hazardous waste?
The median company kept 3.1 % of every krone. That means half of the 50 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
What separates the best from the weakest in collection of non-hazardous waste?
The top third kept 8.8 % of every krone, against -0.4 % for the weakest third. The spread is 9 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
How many companies are there in collection of non-hazardous waste in Norway?
We hold filed accounts for 50 Norwegian companies on this industry code with at least one million kroner in revenue. The real number is higher, since dormant and very small companies are excluded.
How many are loss-making in collection of non-hazardous waste?
18 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
How large is a typical company in collection of non-hazardous waste?
Median revenue is 80.9 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 53.9 m kr and 164.1 m kr.
How much do public contracts matter in collection of non-hazardous waste?
19 of 50 companies, that is 38.0 %, have won at least one public contract since 2022. They have median revenue of 104.5 m kr, against 78.7 m kr for the rest.

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Method. 50 companies registered on industry code 38.110 (Collection of non-hazardous waste) with filed accounts and at least one million kroner in revenue. The figures come from the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises and are public. Operating margin is operating profit divided by operating revenue.

Each company appears with the most recent accounts we hold for it. For the great majority that is the 2024 filing. Around eight per cent had already filed for 2025 when we collected, and for those the 2025 figures apply. We therefore write "latest accounts" rather than naming a single year.

We show one cross-section and no trend line. Our database has broad coverage for the most recent accounting year, but only a small and non-random sample for earlier years. A curve over time would therefore measure who we happened to collect, not what happened in the industry.

Companies with under one million in revenue are excluded, because dormant limited companies would otherwise pull the median down. We do not publish an industry page until we hold at least 30 companies.

This is a description of an industry, not a ranking of companies. We name no individual company here.

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