Recycling Coordinators
Supervise curbside and drop-off recycling programs for municipal governments or private firms.
Recycling Coordinators supervise curbside and drop-off recycling programs for municipal governments or private firms. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.45 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include circular economy, waste management, environmental legislation, hazardous waste storage, ensure compliance with environmental legislation.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £27,832 a year for Warehouse operatives (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
Middle half of full-time jobs: £24,447 to £33,151 a year
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 9252). ONS rates this estimate precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Elementary occupations” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only Recycling Coordinators, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 9. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
Top skills
Knowledge you'll build
- Customer and Personal Service
- Administration and Management
- Administrative
- Education and Training
- Production and Processing
- Mathematics
- English Language
- Public Safety and Security
What you'd actually do
- Oversee recycling pick-up or drop-off programs to ensure compliance with community ordinances.
- Maintain logs of recycling materials received or shipped to processing companies.
- Supervise recycling technicians, community service workers, or other recycling operations employees or volunteers.
- Review customer requests for service to determine service needs and deploy appropriate resources to provide service.
- Provide training to recycling technicians or community service workers on topics such as safety, solid waste processing, or general recycling operations.
- Identify or investigate new opportunities for materials to be collected and recycled.
Tools & technology you'd use
Frequently asked questions
What does Recycling Coordinators do?
Supervise curbside and drop-off recycling programs for municipal governments or private firms.
What skills does Recycling Coordinators need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include circular economy, waste management, environmental legislation, hazardous waste storage, ensure compliance with environmental legislation, ensure compliance with waste legislative regulations. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace Recycling Coordinators?
Our AI-durability model gives Recycling Coordinators a score of 0.45 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.
How hard is it to enter this field?
Recycling Coordinators has moderate barrier to entry — moderately gated — a bachelor's degree or equivalent training is typically required.