A hauling company is a dispatch operation with heavy trucks. Route sheets set each driver's stops, the customer service desk logs the missed pickup and the overflowing dumpster, container swaps and roll-off orders get scheduled around landfill hours, and every load crosses a scale that prints a ticket with the tonnage. Environmental services add a second, very different record: site assessments that read a property's history, sampling plans, lab results, remediation reports and long letters back and forth with a state agency.
Both halves map onto what buyers say they want. Polyshares lists Waste and environmental on its intake, Mercor names dispatch logs, manifests and invoices under logistics, micro1 lists logistics and operations among its industries, and Troveo puts field service, the closest of its categories by our mapping, in its second tier of buyer demand. No buyer we track has published a waste or environmental deal yet.
The writing is uneven across the company: collection drivers score 8 out of 100 on O*NET's email scale and environmental technicians 96. So in our reading the route software, scale house and customer service logs carry the hauling side, and the reports carry the environmental side. Generator details on manifests and customer addresses are what to raise first. Take the quiz to see which buyers take a company your size.
Worth
What a company's data may be worth
Set for a typical company, 70 staff and 12 years of records. Move the sliders to match yours. Our estimate, not an offer.
Buyers
Which buyers want this data
Buyers whose own published rules fit waste haulers, recyclers and environmental services companies. We can introduce you to the ones we work with.
Featured partners
micro1
Lists logistics and operations among its industries and looks for workflows employees run again and again, like a daily route.12,13
- $100K to $2M+, micro1 says10
Watch out for: Says it removes personal details only "when relevant", so ask exactly how.14
Polyshares
Lists Waste and environmental on its intake form and asks for dispatch, deliveries and site records under field operations.1,15
- $100K to $2M+, Polyshares says11
- None, Polyshares says16
- An offer in 1 to 2 weeks, then paid in 30 to 60 days17
Watch out for: Exclusive by default, and every deal it lists is exclusive with no end date.18,19
Everyone else we reviewed
By score, with full reviews. We have no referral agreement with these companies, so we do not link out to them.
Mercor
Names shipping manifests, dispatch logs and invoices as logistics data it buys, close to a hauler's tickets and route records.2,20
Watch out for: It confirmed a cyberattack in 2026, and class actions followed.24,25
Nyne AI
Names dispatch and scheduling data alongside finance and CRM tools, the systems a hauler's office runs on.26
- $100K or more, Nyne says27
Watch out for: Pays only after the dataset is accepted, and publishes no timeline.28
Troveo
Puts logistics, field service or supply chain, the closest category to hauling by our mapping, in tier 2 of its assessment, marked as above-average buyer demand.29
- Six figures and up for a whole company, Troveo says30
- A share of the revenue; the percentage is not published31
Watch out for: You are paid from a revenue share, so ask what percentage you keep.31
Who wants this
Do buyers want waste haulers, recyclers and environmental services companies?
No buyer publishes prices by industry, but their own intake forms show which industries they rate higher.
- Troveo puts logistics, field service or supply chain (our closest match) in its second of four demand tiers: "Your industry carries above-average buyer demand."29
- Polyshares takes waste and environmental, without marking it premium.32
Which buyers take a company your size
Shown for 70 staff, a typical company. Ask whether contractors and part-time staff count.
micro1
Polyshares
No headcount rule; the length and texture of the record matter more35
Mode
20+ full-time US office staff (accounting firms 10+, law firms 6+)36
Pewter
20+ staff and 3+ years; by industry, from 10+ (healthcare) to 50+ (manufacturing, finance)37,38,39
Grepped
No headcount minimum stated40
Ventra
30+ US employees and 3+ years of records41
Mercor
None stated42
Troveo
No minimum stated; its estimator starts at 2043
Nyne
20+ US W-2 employees and 3+ years44
Endless
Roughly 30+ employees45
Supersoniq
50+ employees and 5+ years46
What buyers value
What in a company's records buyers value
What buyers look for in your records, and what to talk through with your buyer before anything leaves your systems.
| Data | Where it lives | Why a buyer values it | Raise with the buyer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Route sheets and driver tickets | Hauler software (AMCS, Soft-Pak, Routeware) and onboard tablets | Stops served, stops missed and the reason, day after day on the same routes. | Customer addresses and driver identities. |
| Customer service logs | Hauler software, phone system, email | Missed pickups, container requests and billing disputes, each with what the desk did about it. | Caller names and account numbers. |
| Scale tickets and tonnage records | Scale house software | Every load weighed and classed, a clean link between a route, a material and a disposal cost. | Nothing specific |
| Waste profiles and manifests | Paper files, state and federal e-manifest records | How a waste stream is characterized and tracked from the generator to the disposal site. | Generator names and the rules that attach to manifest records. |
| Site assessments and remediation reports | Word and PDF reports, lab data | Long written reasoning from site history to sampling to a recommendation, signed by a professional. | Which reports were prepared for a named client. |
| Agency correspondence and permit files | Email, shared drive | Questions from a regulator and the company's answers, a hard kind of writing to find anywhere else. | Nothing specific |
| Safety and operating procedures | Shared drive, training binders | Pre-trip checks, backing rules and spill response, the method the company wrote for itself. | Nothing specific |
A week of records
A week of data at a company
- Monday: holiday catch-up routes run long, and the desk logs every missed pickup call with a promised time.
- Tuesday: roll-off swaps are scheduled for construction sites, and the scale house tickets each load.
- Wednesday: a field technician samples soil at a former gas station and files a chain of custody with the lab.
- Thursday: a recycling customer gets a contamination notice with photos and a note on what went wrong.
- Friday: the environmental team sends a draft remediation report to a client and answers the state's comments on another.
Process
How it works with each buyer
In each buyer's own words. Where a buyer publishes nothing, we say so.
micro1
- Internal docs, SOPs and playbooks, knowledge bases, project management workflows, internal comms, templates, CRM and workflow metadata, task histories47
- 30 to 200 employees34
- $100K-$2M+ per data package; over $1M for unique data10
- PII removed "when relevant"14
- The company keeps ownership of its data and reviews samples before release48
- Not published
Polyshares
Mercor
Nyne AI
Selling or closing
Selling or closing your company? License its data first
When a hauler sells routes to a larger operator or an environmental firm joins a bigger consultancy, the customer list is, in our reading, what gets priced. The written record of how the work was done is a different set of records, and whether a copy could be offered first is a question to talk through with the buyer you're working with. Pewter takes companies that are operating, winding down or closed, as long as the records still exist, and Spirit Airlines' internal archive drew its own bids from Google, Mercor and micro1.3,4,5
FAQ
Waste haulers, recycling and environmental services: questions, answered
Collectors score 8 out of 100 on O*NET's email scale, so it is not in inboxes. It is in route software, tablet notes, scale tickets and the customer service desk, which logs every call a driver's day creates.8
Reports that move from site history to sampling to a recommendation are long, expert writing. Troveo puts field service, our closest match, in its second tier of buyer demand and Polyshares groups waste and environmental together. Many reports were written for a named client, so flag that on the first call.29,1
Every business is different, so this one is best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over it with you before anything is signed.
Every business is different, so this one is best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over it with you before anything is signed.
Before you sign
Questions to talk through with your buyer
Every business is different, so these are best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over them with you before anything is signed.
Questions for this kind of business
- Do EPA or state rules on hazardous waste manifests follow a licensed copy of those records?
- Who owns an environmental report prepared for a client, and does the client need to agree?
- How are customer addresses, generator names and driver records removed before release?
- Who owns this data: the company, an estate, or someone else?
- How do CCPA, GDPR, UK GDPR and state privacy laws apply, and is de-identified data still personal information?
- Do customer, vendor or platform contracts, NDAs or API terms restrict this?
Questions for any buyer
- Is the license exclusive, and for how long?
- Can you sublicense the data, and to whom?
- Which AI labs will receive it, and will you tell us?
- How long do you keep it, and how is it deleted?
- What is your liability cap, and who indemnifies whom?
- Will the contract ban re-identification of people in the data?
- Who removes personal data, by what method, and do we approve it first?