Les joyeux recycleurs

What Les joyeux recycleurs does

Les Joyeux Recycleurs is a B2B office recycling services company founded in January 2014 and headquartered in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. The company sells a turnkey, subscription-based waste-sorting and collection solution to businesses across all eight Île-de-France departments — and, more recently, in the Lyon / Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region — covering approximately 13 modular waste streams including paper, plastic bottles, cans, cups, coffee grounds and capsules, glass, organic waste, cigarette butts, e-waste, and office furniture. Its core "Box Bureau" offering installs color-coded, design-styled sorting bins on client premises, performs bi-weekly floor-level collection using electric and GNV (natural gas) trucks, provides employee training and communication kits, and delivers monthly reporting, an annual recycling certificate, and CO2-equivalent data for clients' carbon footprint disclosures.

The technology stack is operational rather than digital: there is no proprietary software platform, no API, no SDK, and no AI/ML components disclosed; service delivery relies on physical bins, last-mile logistics, and manual sorting with downstream treatment partners such as Paprec. Pricing starts at €60–70/month per client, with add-on boxes priced separately, and services are sold direct via the website (quote request) and phone. The company positions itself as a social enterprise, recruiting 80% of staff from professional insertion programs through its core partnership with Ares Atelier and donating 5 centimes per kilo of waste collected.

The customer base spans more than 2,000 companies and roughly 130,000 end-users, including CAC-40 names (LVMH, BNP Paribas), large enterprises (SNCF, Hilton, Rolls-Royce, Leroy Merlin, Airbnb, BlaBlaCar), luxury and retail brands (Habitat, Palais des Thés), public-sector clients (Mairie de Paris), and non-profits. Distribution is regional and direct-sales-led with content marketing and earned media (Le Monde, BFM Business, Alternatives Economiques) as the primary acquisition channels. The company has 20–25 employees and is privately held by founder Gilles Rouverand, with no external institutional capital disclosed.

Name

Les joyeux recycleurs

Legal name

Les joyeux recycleurs

Website

https://lesjoyeuxrecycleurs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Les Joyeux Recycleurs is a Paris-based B2B office recycling and waste-sorting services company, offering a monthly subscription Box Bureau service (from €60–70/month) covering ~13 waste streams to 2,000+ businesses across Île-de-France and Lyon. Operations combine physical bin installation, bi-weekly floor-level collection using electric/GNV trucks, employee training, and sustainability reporting, with 80% of staff recruited via the Ares Atelier professional insertion program.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Office Recycling and Waste Management Services

NAICS

Solid Waste Collection (562111), Waste Collection (56211)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Commercial & Office Waste Collection (Non-hazardous) (EUAIAGAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

On-site Recycling Programs (Single-Stream, Source-Separated) (BPABALAB), E-Waste (WEEE) Collection, Refurbishment & Recycling (IMAIAFAH), Certified Compliance & Reporting Services (R2/e-Stewards, Audit, ESG) (BPALAIAL)

Keywords

• Office recycling services
• Waste management
• Corporate recycling
• Sorting solutions
• Waste collection

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Monthly subscription service: Monthly subscription model charging businesses a recurring fee for comprehensive recycling services including bin installation, bi-weekly collection, team training, communication kit, monthly reporting, and annual recycling certificates. Pricing starts from €60-70/month.
2. Per-kilo donation to social cause: For each kilo of waste collected, 5 centimes of euro are donated to the Ares Atelier association for professional insertion. This is a social impact component rather than direct revenue.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Les Joyeux Recycleurs provides a turnkey office recycling subscription service for businesses in Île-de-France. The core offering, Box Bureau, installs modular color-coded sorting bins in client offices for 13+ waste streams (paper, cups, plastic bottles, cans, coffee grounds, capsules, glass, bio-waste, cigarette butts, e-waste, office furniture, and combined cartridges/batteries/lamps/pens/caps), collects the waste directly on-site every two weeks using electric and GNV trucks, provides employee training, monthly reporting, recycling certificates, and CO2 equivalency data. Pricing starts at €60-70/month per client, with 80% of staff recruited from professional insertion programs in partnership with Ares Atelier.

Product overview

Les joyeux recycleurs operates as a comprehensive office recycling service in Paris and Île-de-France, founded in January 2014. Their primary offering is the Box Bureau modular system, which provides color-coded recycling boxes for 13 different waste categories: papers, cups, plastic bottles, cans, coffee grounds, coffee capsules, organic waste, glass, a combined 5-in-1 box (cartridges, batteries, lamps, pens, caps), cigarette butts, electronic equipment, and office furniture. The core Box Bureau service starts at 70€/month and includes installation of sorting bins, bi-weekly collection directly from offices, multimedia communication kits, monthly reporting, recycling certificates, and CO2 equivalency data for carbon footprint reporting. Services are available across all Paris departments (75) and surrounding Île-de-France regions (77, 78, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95). The company also recently expanded operations to serve businesses in Lyon and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Box Bureau (Office Recycling Subscription) Turnkey office recycling subscription for businesses in Île-de-France, providing on-site installation of modular color-coded sorting bins for 13+ waste streams (paper, cups, plastic bottles, cans, coffee grounds, capsules, glass, bio-waste, cigarette butts, e-waste, office furniture, and a combined cartridges/batteries/lamps/pens/caps box), bi-weekly collection directly in client offices, employee training, multimedia communication kits, monthly reporting, recycling certificates, and CO2 equivalency data for carbon-footprint reporting. Starting price €60-70/month.

Quantifiable outcome

• 130,000+ employees recycle through the service
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Ares AteliercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAres Atelier is a professional insertion association. For each kilo of waste collected, Les Joyeux Recycleurs donate 5 centimes to Ares Atelier. 80% of the company's employees are recruited from Ares Atelier's professional insertion program, receiving long-term training and support for sustainable career development.
• YunaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerYuna is a French eco-responsible linen company that Les Joyeux Recycleurs supports. Yuna recovers hotel linen and resells second-hand professional linen, supporting circular economy in textiles. Les Joyeux Recycleurs promotes this partnership as aligned with their environmental mission.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Suez: Suez is one of the two dominant French/European environmental services groups, offering commercial and industrial waste collection, recycling, and recovery at massive scale. It competes with Les Joyeux Recycleurs indirectly, serving large enterprises and municipalities across the same waste streams.
• Veolia: Veolia is the other dominant global environmental services group with deep presence in France across hazardous and non-hazardous waste collection, sorting, and treatment. It is a broad incumbent in the same space as Les Joyeux Recycleurs, particularly for enterprise and municipal contracts.
• Paprec Group: Paprec is a leading French recycling and waste management group operating across paper, plastics, metals, and industrial streams. It is both a broad competitor and an existing downstream recycling partner of Les Joyeux Recycleurs for specific waste streams.
• Derichebourg: Derichebourg is a French environmental services group active in commercial and industrial waste collection, recycling, and metal recovery. It competes for the same enterprise waste customers as Les Joyeux Recycleurs, though typically at a larger scale and broader scope.
• Séché Environnement: Séché Environnement is a French listed waste management group providing collection, treatment, and recovery services to industrial, commercial, and municipal clients. It is a broad incumbent in the same commercial waste market that Les Joyeux Recycleurs addresses with its office-focused offering.

Emerging players

• ENVIE: ENVIE is a French network of social-insertion enterprises focused on refurbishing and reselling electrical appliances and recycling WEEE/other streams. It shares the social-insertion DNA with Les Joyeux Recycleurs (80% insertion hiring) and overlaps in WEEE and appliance recycling services.
• LemonTri: LemonTri is a French office waste management start-up offering sorting and collection services to businesses, with a focus on multiple waste streams. It overlaps with Les Joyeux Recycleurs on the B2B office subscription model but is earlier-stage and technology-led in positioning.
• La Recyclerie: La Recyclerie is a Paris-based social enterprise combining a café, urban farm, and repair/upcycling workshops to promote circular-economy practices. While not a direct office recycling competitor, it is a comparable Paris-rooted social/circular-economy player with overlapping values and customer audiences.

Direct peers

• Tri-o: Tri-o is a French B2B office recycling subscription service that installs sorting bins and collects multiple waste streams directly from client offices. It competes head-to-head with Les Joyeux Recycleurs on the same turnkey, on-site, multi-stream office recycling proposition.
• Recygo: Recygo (formerly Green Office, now backed by La Poste group) offers a subscription-based office waste sorting and collection service in France. It is the closest direct competitor to Les Joyeux Recycleurs, targeting the same B2B office segment with a modular, multi-stream sorting offering.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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