EMS Bay Skips

About EMS Bay Skips

EMS Bay Skips is part of EMS Waste Services, a family-run waste management business operating across the South West. The company provides skip hire and waste management for domestic and commercial customers, collecting household rubbish, garden waste, construction debris and commercial waste. Services include standard skips, RoRo containers for large projects, and transfer of waste to recycling centres and landfill sites.

EMS Bay Skips covers Paignton, Exeter, Plymouth, Torbay and across Devon, Cornwall and Somerset. The business operates 40 lorries and employs over 120 staff, processing more than 150,000 tonnes of waste annually. Skips are delivered and collected by the company's own drivers, who phone ahead so customers are ready. Old skips are removed and replaced with clean ones on request.

The EMS Waste Services story began in the 1940s when Alf Stuart bought a second-hand Dodge to transport cattle. His sons Roy and Ross expanded the business, and by the 1980s the family had opened an inert landfill site and begun growing the waste management side. EMS Waste Services Ltd was acquired in 2009, and between 2012 and 2015 the company brought together Devon contract waste skips, AJS skips, ASAP skip hire and Bay Skips. Further acquisitions followed, including Dusty Bin, County Skips and Masters Skips, with transfer stations in Exeter, Torbay and Plymouth. In November 2023 EMS added the assets of ABC Siddall's skip hire, and in April 2025 acquired YPH based in Yeovil, Somerset.