Stena Recycling

Stena Recycling is a commercial recycling and resource-management company whose stated aim is to help create a world where nothing goes to waste. Its history page traces its beginnings to 1939, when founder Sten Allan Olsson started trading scrap metal, iron, raw rubber, and rags from a small office in Gothenburg, Sweden. The company describes resource recovery and the use of materials that might otherwise be lost as a principle running through its history. The company offers material recycling across plastics, paper, electronics, metals, batteries, vehicle batteries, and hazardous waste. It also serves customers in sectors including manufacturing, public services, end-of-life vehicles and automotive, retail, process industry, and infrastructure. Its services include waste collection and recycling, total waste management, outsourcing, demolition, reuse, and confidential services. The site also presents digital services such as a customer portal, pickup management, follow-up tools, learning resources, and CO₂ impact and CSRD reporting offerings. Beyond handling waste and materials, Stena Recycling promotes circular business solutions and consulting, including circular product design, zero-waste work, circular-system design, and strategy and compliance. Its website presents these services as support for customers seeking to identify value in waste materials and improve resource use. It also refers to research and development, Stena Recycling Lab, and Stena Nordic Recycling Center. The company presents its activities as global and lists market-level management, including a managing director for Sweden. The supplied material does not establish a headquarters address, complete country-by-country market list, ownership details, or listing status. The official management page identifies Kristofer Sundsgård as Chief Executive Officer and lists leaders responsible for finance, human resources, strategy and sales, production and logistics, and research and development. Stena Recycling is presented as an active business, with sustainability and collaboration with customers and partners central to its stated approach.

Stena Recycling traces its origins to 1939. According to the company’s history page, founder Sten Allan Olsson began trading scrap metal, iron, raw rubber, and rags from a small office in Gothenburg, Sweden. The company describes this early activity as the beginning of an enduring focus on recovering and refining resources that might otherwise be lost. The supplied account establishes the founding context and the company’s continuing focus on material recycling, but does not document intermediate dated milestones in its development. Its present-day website describes a broader service scope than scrap trading alone: material recycling, waste collection and management, reuse, confidential services, digital tools, and consulting on circular business solutions. Materials named include plastics, paper, electronics, metals, batteries, vehicle batteries, and hazardous waste. The company also describes work with customers across industries such as manufacturing, public services, automotive and end-of-life vehicles, retail, process industry, and infrastructure. Its current management page identifies Kristofer Sundsgård as Chief Executive Officer and lists leaders for finance, human resources, strategy and sales, production and logistics, and research and development. The evidence supplied here does not establish further dated changes in ownership, corporate structure, leadership succession, or international expansion.

• 1939

  Sten Allan Olsson begins scrap trading in Gothenburg

A business-to-business recycling and circular-economy partner offering material recovery, waste-management services, and related digital and consulting solutions.

• Material recycling

  Recycling services for plastics, paper, electronics, metals, batteries, vehicle batteries, and hazardous waste.

• Recycling and waste-management services

  Services include waste collection and recycling, total waste management, outsourcing, demolition, and reuse.

• Digital services

  The website lists a Customer Portal, pickup and follow-up tools, a learning hub, and Stena CO₂ Impact and CSRD reporting services.

• Circular business solutions

  Consulting and related services include circular product design, zero waste, circular system design, and strategy and compliance.

1. 1Stena Recycling - Sustainable waste management & recyclingstenarecycling.com
2. 2Our History: From Scrap Trading to Circular Innovation | Stena Recyclingstenarecycling.com
3. 3Group Management & Leadership Team | Stena Recyclingstenarecycling.com
4. 4Sustainability at Stena Recycling | Stena Recyclingstenarecycling.com