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Scott Bros

Circular waste management, recycled aggregates, plant and haulage on Teesside

  • Billingham, Teesside
  • Established 1972
  • North East
  • Joining the group
People
129
Vehicles
68
Permitted capacity
1m t/yr
Operating sites
4
Customers
400
Service area
5,600 km²

Scott Bros is a 50-year-old family business on Teesside that combines skips, haulage and plant hire with large-scale recycling — turning construction waste into sand, aggregates, compost and low-carbon concrete.

Founded in Thornaby in 1972, Scott Bros has grown into one of the North East’s most complete circular-economy operators. Its four Teesside sites hold more than a million tonnes a year of permitted processing capacity and received around 396,000 tonnes of waste in 2024.

Two ‘urban quarry’ wash plants — the newest able to process up to 300 tonnes an hour — turn construction and excavation waste into builder’s and sharp sand and graded aggregates. It composts green waste for the four Tees Valley councils, treats landfill leachate and gully waste in a natural reed-bed system, and now makes low-carbon concrete using its own by-products.

A fleet of around 68 vehicles — skip loaders, grab wagons, tippers, low loaders and road sweepers — plus a full plant-hire operation and in-house workshops make it the processing anchor of the group’s North East cluster, a few hundred metres from CW Russell.

Key facts

  • More than 1 million tonnes a year of permitted processing capacity across Teesside
  • Around 396,000 tonnes of waste received in 2024 (Environment Agency data) — with nothing leaving its sites to landfill
  • Two soil-washing ‘urban quarries’ turn construction waste into sand and aggregates
  • Composting partner to the four Tees Valley councils
  • Low-carbon concrete replaces up to 25% of cement with its own filter cake
  • Biomass boiler and around 250 kW of solar power its own business park
  • Tees Business Awards 2023 — Green Innovation Award

Milestones

  1. 1972Founded in Thornaby by David Scott
  2. 1996Waste transfer licence at Holden Close, Middlesbrough
  3. 1998Waste transfer licence at Haverton Hill, Billingham
  4. 2002Scott Bros Recycling formed
  5. 2008Aggregate processing begins
  6. 2011Reed-bed treatment installation permitted
  7. 2016Open-windrow composting at Norton Bottoms
  8. 2018Biomass boiler heats the business park on its own waste wood
  9. 2019First soil-wash plant; Tees Valley green-waste composting contract
  10. 2023Second, 300 t/hr wash plant; Green Innovation Award
  11. 2025Low-carbon concrete plant opens

Sites & coverage

  • Scott Business Park & North Tees Recycle Centre Haverton Hill Road, Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees, TS23 1PY Head office, transfer station & recycling line, workshops, biomass boiler & solar
  • South Tees Recycle Centre Holden Close, Bolckow Industrial Estate, Middlesbrough, TS6 7BN Household, commercial & industrial waste transfer station
  • Norton Bottoms Haverton Hill Road, Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees, TS23 1PX Wash plant, inert recovery, PAS 100 composting & reed-bed treatment
  • Grangetown soil-washing facility John Boyle Road, Grangetown, Middlesbrough, TS6 6TY 300 t/hr wash plant & low-carbon concrete plant
  • Teesside and the wider North East — Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool, Redcar, Darlington, Durham and Sunderland; road sweepers from Leeds to Edinburgh