SÖRAB

What SÖRAB does

SÖRAB (Söderortens Renhållningsaktiebolag) is a Swedish municipal waste management and recycling company founded in 1978 and headquartered in Vallentuna. It is owned by its member municipalities — Täby, Upplands Väsby, Järfälla, Vallentuna, Lidingö, Solna, and Sundbyberg — and operates a regional network of physical recycling infrastructure across northern Stockholm County, including fixed recycling centers (Hagby, Smedby, Görväln, Löt), return parks (Stockby, Vallentuna), retail-anchored return points (Solna Centrum, Sundbyberg), a Mobile ÅVC, a garden-waste facility (Södergarn), and the Brista post-sorting plant.

The company's service portfolio covers household and business waste collection, hazardous waste, electronic waste, garden and construction waste, food-waste-to-biogas recovery, and site remediation (marksanering). In 2025 it decided to internalize contaminated-soil handling at the Löt facility, and in 2026 it relocated Returpunkt Solna C within the Solna Centrum shopping center. The firm also runs environmental education programs (Sophjälte, Klimatkämpe) and publishes a public Sorteringsguiden (sorting guide) for residents.

SÖRAB does not offer a software product or platform; its offering is physical waste-management and recycling infrastructure funded by municipal taxes for households and by per-use pricing for business customers, with automatic invoicing available for commercial accounts. Revenue is not publicly disclosed. Current acting CEO is Annica Norbäck.

Name

SÖRAB

Legal name

SÖRAB

Website

https://sorab.se

Company type

Private

Founded year

1978

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

SÖRAB is a Swedish municipal waste management company, owned by seven Stockholm-region municipalities, operating 10+ recycling centers, return parks, and return points that serve households and businesses with waste collection, recycling, and environmental education services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Municipal Waste Management and Recycling Services

NAICS

Solid Waste Collection (562111), Remediation and Other Waste Management Services (5629), Materials Recovery Facilities (56292), Hazardous Waste Collection (562112)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Solid Waste & Recycling Services Administration (BPAIACAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Industrial & Commercial Waste Collection (Roll-off/Front-load) (IMAIAFAB)

Keywords

• Municipal waste management
• Recycling center services
• Hazardous waste disposal
• Household waste collection
• Construction debris removal

Headquarters

HQ city

Vallentuna

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Municipal Waste Management Services: SÖRAB is owned by member municipalities and provides waste management services funded through municipal taxes and user fees. The company handles household and business waste collection and recycling across multiple Stockholm municipalities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

SÖRAB is a municipally-owned waste management company that provides household and business waste collection, recycling, and disposal services across seven municipalities in the northern Stockholm region. It operates a network of staffed recycling centers (ÅVC), return parks (Returpark), return points in shopping centers, and a mobile recycling unit, accepting household waste, hazardous waste, electronic waste, garden waste, construction debris, and food waste. The company also provides contaminated soil remediation at the Löt facility, runs school environmental education programs (Sophjälte, Klimatkämpe), and publishes the Sorteringsguiden sorting guide.

Product overview

SÖRAB (Söderortens Renhållningsaktiebolag) is a Swedish municipal waste management and recycling company serving several municipalities north of Stockholm. The company operates a network of recycling centers (Återvinningscentraler / ÅVC), return points, and garden waste facilities across Täby, Upplands Väsby, Järfälla, Vallentuna, Lidingö, Solna, and Sundbyberg. Services include household and business waste collection, hazardous waste disposal, electronic waste handling, garden waste processing, construction waste removal (via large bags), and paper recycling. SÖRAB also provides a public Sorteringsguiden (sorting guide) as an educational resource for residents to understand proper waste sorting. For schools, the company offers educational programs under the names Sophjälte and Klimatkämpe. The company does not appear to offer a standalone software product, platform, or digital service in the traditional SaaS sense — its offering is physical waste management and recycling infrastructure and related advisory/educational services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Recycling center services (ÅVC)
• Return parks (Returpark) Reuse- and recycling-focused facilities located at Stockby (Lidingö) and Vallentuna, supporting both recycling and reuse (återbruk) of materials from residents and businesses.
• Return points (Returpunkt) Smaller drop-off points in shopping centers at Solna Centrum and Sundbyberg, accepting items people can carry and offering repair workshops.
• Mobile recycling center (Mobil ÅVC) A mobile recycling unit that travels to different locations in the SÖRAB service region, providing additional access to recycling services for residents.
• Business waste management services Comprehensive waste services for commercial customers including verksamhetsavfall (operational waste), hazardous waste, electronic waste, garden waste, and construction debris, accessible through a dedicated business account with automatic invoicing and published pricing.
• Site remediation (Marksanering) Contaminated soil handling and land remediation services delivered at the Löt facility, taken in-house in 2025 to support the region's development.
• Construction waste collection in large bags (storsäck) Collection service for household and business construction waste delivered in large bags (storsäck), offering convenient pickup of bulky construction debris.
• Sorteringsguiden sorting guide Public digital sorting guide that helps residents understand how to sort different waste streams properly, supporting the broader recycling system.
• School education programs (Sophjälte and Klimatkämpe) Environmental education programs for schools, including Sophjälte with sorting mascots (Sorteringskompisarna) and Klimatkämpe, teaching children about waste sorting, recycling, and environmental responsibility.
• Food waste (matavfall) collection Separate household food waste collection that enables production of biogas and biofertilizer (biogödsel) from collected matavfall.
• Brista post-sorting facility (Eftersorteringsanläggning) Post-sorting facility for material recovery from waste streams, supporting SÖRAB's recycling infrastructure for business and household customers.
• Garden waste facility at Södergarn (Lidingö) Dedicated garden waste (trädgårdsavfall) processing facility on Lidingö, accepting green waste from residents and businesses for composting and processing.

Quantifiable outcome

• Food waste is converted to biogas and biofertilizer through separate collection
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Lysio Research ABminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 5 May 2026Lysio Research AB conducts customer satisfaction surveys on behalf of SÖRAB. The survey is sent to approximately 700 residents per municipality to gather feedback on waste management services. This is part of SÖRAB's three-year survey cycle and supports the regional waste planning process.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Ragn-Sells: Ragn-Sells is one of Sweden's largest private waste-management operators with collection, recycling, and hazardous-waste services nationwide. Overlaps SÖRAB across recycling-center and industrial-waste services but operates at much broader scale and outside the public-sector niche.
• PreZero: PreZero is the Schwarz Group's environmental-services division operating recycling, sorting, and material-recovery facilities across Europe. Comparable material-recovery and hazardous-waste activities to SÖRAB but at international scale and with private capital.
• Veolia Recycling Sweden: Veolia's Swedish operations provide collection, recycling, and hazardous-waste services to municipalities and industries. Larger global incumbent offering substantially the same service lines as SÖRAB but as part of a broader utilities portfolio.
• Suez Recycling and Recovery Sweden: Suez operates recycling, material-recovery, and hazardous-waste services in Sweden. International incumbent with overlapping capabilities to SÖRAB, though Suez's Swedish footprint is not centered on household recycling centers.

Direct peers

• Renova: Renova is the municipal waste company for the greater Gothenburg area, providing recycling centers, hazardous-waste handling, and material recovery. Highly analogous in ownership model and operating model to SÖRAB.
• Stockholm Vatten och Avfall: Stockholm Vatten och Avfall is the municipally owned water and waste utility for Stockholm city itself. Closest geographic and structural peer, operating recycling centers and household/business waste services in the same metro region as SÖRAB.
• SRV Återvinning: SRV Återvinning is a Swedish inter-municipal waste and recycling company serving the Södertörn area south of Stockholm. Same municipal-ownership structure and nearly identical service mix (household/business collection, recycling centers, hazardous waste) as SÖRAB, making it the closest Swedish regional peer.
• Sysav: Sysav is a municipally owned waste company in southern Skåne operating recycling centers, hazardous-waste facilities, and post-sorting plants. Comparable governance (member municipalities), facility network, and processing capabilities to SÖRAB.

Emerging players

• Returpack: Returback runs Sweden's deposit-return system for PET bottles and aluminum cans. Tangentially related through beverage-container recycling infrastructure that interacts with municipal recycling streams like SÖRAB's.

Others

• Lysio Research AB: Lysio Research AB is the survey/consulting partner conducting citizen satisfaction surveys for SÖRAB on a triennial basis. Adjacent, enabling service provider rather than a competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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