WBM Ltd

What WBM Ltd does

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Name

WBM Ltd

Legal name

Waterloo Business Management Ltd

Website

https://wbmlimited.co.uk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Printer Consumables Recycling Services

NAICS

Waste Treatment and Disposal (5622)

akta.pro primary industry

Printer, Copier & Imaging Equipment Recycling (MPS Returns) (BPALAIAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Certified Compliance & Reporting Services (R2/e-Stewards, Audit, ESG) (BPALAIAL)

Keywords

• Printer consumables recycling
• Toner cartridge recycling
• WEEE waste recovery
• Circular economy services
• Managed print recycling

Headquarters

HQ city

Oldham

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Circular Planet Free Collection Service: Free service for collection and recycling of genuine OEM printer consumables, funded by the OEM manufacturer partner. WBM services the UK & Ireland region as a Circular Planet partner.
2. Print-Recycle Chargeable Service: Chargeable recycling service for all consumables, including both OEM and compatible printer cartridges. Available as a standalone service or alongside Circular Planet.
3. Own Branded Portal (OEMreturn.com): For an additional cost and small monthly fee, customers can have their own branded portal to provide recycling services branded as their own, offering a white-label / co-branding option.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

WBM Ltd provides a used printer consumables destruction and recycling service that identifies, cleans, grinds, and separates empty plastic toner cartridges into graded plastic beads for raw-material reuse, returning materials to the supply chain. The company operates three offerings: the Circular Planet free OEM recycling partnership, the chargeable Print-Recycle service for all consumables, and a white-label Own Brand Portal (OEMreturn.com) for partners. It serves OEM manufacturers, managed print service providers, dealers, and end-user organisations across the UK.

Product overview

WBM Ltd operates a unified printer consumables recycling platform built around three service tiers: (1) the Circular Planet partnership providing free OEM recycling, (2) the Print-Recycle chargeable service covering all consumables including compatibles, and (3) the premium Own Brand Portal for white-label resale. All collected materials flow through the WBM Online Portal for management, with collection boxes delivered to end-users and processed at the UK facility. The processing operation converts waste cartridges into graded plastic beads and recovered raw materials for industrial repurposing, underpinned by a zero-landfill commitment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Circular Planet: Free collection and recycling service for genuine OEM printer consumables, operated in partnership with Circular Planet for UK & Ireland.
• Print-Recycle
• OEM Return

Products and services

• Circular Planet Partnership Free collection and recycling service for genuine OEM printer consumables, operated by WBM as the UK and Ireland partner for the Circular Planet programme. Funded by the OEM manufacturer partner and intended for OEMs and their customers to enable responsible end-of-life management of branded cartridges.
• Print-Recycle Chargeable recycling service offered by WBM for OEM and compatible cartridges, available to managed print service providers, dealers, and end-user organisations. Can be used on its own or combined with the Circular Planet free OEM service.
• Own Brand Portal (OEMreturn.com) White-label branded recycling portal offered as an add-on service for an additional cost and a small monthly subscription fee, enabling customers to present WBM's recycling service under their own brand to their downstream customers.
• WBM Online Portal Bespoke online portal provided by WBM for end-users, distributors, and managed print service providers to manage returns, schedule collections, track processing, and download compliance documentation including certificates of recycling and waste transfer notes.
• Printer Consumables Recycling Processing Underlying UK-based destruction and recycling service that identifies, cleans, grinds, and separates plastic toner cartridges into graded plastic beads and recovered raw materials (plastics, metals, powder) for industrial reuse, achieving a zero-landfill outcome across UK operations.

Quantifiable outcome

• 276,136 items processed in 2024; target of 500 tonnes annually by 2027
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core, minor and flagship.

• Circular PlanetcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWBM is the UK & Ireland partner for Circular Planet, a free collection and recycling service for genuine OEM printer consumables. Circular Planet provides the programme framework and brand, while WBM provides the operational infrastructure for collection, processing, and raw material recovery.
• Print-RecyclecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrint-Recycle is WBM's chargeable recycling service for all printer consumables, including both OEM and compatible cartridges. It can be used separately or alongside the Circular Planet free service. WBM operates this as its own branded service offering.
• OEMreturn.comminorOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerOEMreturn.com is a white-label portal option allowing WBM customers to brand the recycling service as their own for an additional cost and monthly fee. End-users or dealers can offer a value-added recycling service under their own brand.
• Canon UK & IrelandflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerCanon UK & Ireland and WBM are celebrating the first anniversary of their recycling partnership, which has diverted more than 33.8 tonnes of toner cartridges and printer consumables from landfill in its first year. Materials are redirected back into the supply chain through closed-loop recycling.
• Konica MinoltaflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerWBM supports Konica Minolta's enhanced 'World on Loan' consumables recycling programme, designed to make it easier for organisations to recycle used printer consumables responsibly. WBM provides the specialist infrastructure for collection and processing in line with UK regulations, ensuring nothing is sent to landfill.
• Henry Royce Institute (Manchester University)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerWBM works with the Sustainable Materials Hub within the Henry Royce Institute at Manchester University to test technology and suggest ways to improve WBM's capabilities in materials processing and recycling efficiency.
• Huddersfield UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerWBM collaborates with Huddersfield University to test recycling technology and identify ways to improve capabilities in all areas of the consumables recycling process.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves1 record

Broad incumbents

• Sims Lifecycle Services: Division of Sims Metal Management providing IT asset disposition and e-waste recycling at global scale; a larger incumbent whose T11/WEEE capabilities and OEM relationships make it a credible broader-scope competitor for OEM recycling contracts.
• Veolia Environmental Services UK: UK arm of global waste-management giant with nationwide WEEE/treatment infrastructure; competes indirectly with WBM by offering broader waste-compliance bundling to large enterprise and public-sector customers.
• SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK: UK arm of SUEZ providing commercial waste, WEEE, and recycling services; a large incumbent that can absorb printer-consumables streams into broader office-waste contracts, putting margin pressure on specialist pricing.

Regional players

• Europalco / European Cartridge Recyclers: Pan-European printer cartridge collectors/recyclers serving Continental OEMs; compete with WBM where OEMs run Europe-wide programmes and may consolidate to a single continental partner instead of a UK-only specialist.
• ReCreate: New Zealand-based specialist printer cartridge recycler running an OEM-funded closed-loop programme analogous to WBM, but serving a different (Oceania) geography.

Direct peers

• Cartridges 4 Planet Ark: Planet Ark's Australian cartridge take-back programme partnered with Close the Loop; operates a similar OEM-branded, zero-landfill cartridge collection model to WBM's Circular Planet partnership for OEM consumables.
• Close the Loop: Largest dedicated printer consumables recycler in Australia and a global reference for the cartridge-to-plastic-bead model. Compares to WBM as the only other specialist of comparable scale focused on OEM printer-cartridge end-of-life recovery.

Emerging players

• Plastic Bank: Global social-enterprise plastic recovery and reprocessing operator; overlaps with WBM in monetising recovered plastic feedstock back into manufacturing supply chains, though focused on ocean/landscape leakage rather than cartridges.
• MBA Polymers: US-headquartered advanced recycler that recovers engineering-grade plastics from end-of-life electronics and WEEE — overlapping with WBM's core challenge of separating mixed plastics from contaminated streams into graded, marketable resin.
• Renewlogy: US-based plastics-to-fuels and advanced-recycling company; comparable to WBM in targeting hard-to-recycle mixed/contaminated plastics, though addressing fuel rather than bead output.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/wbmltd
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wbmlimited

Compliance9 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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