EMS Waste Services Plymouth

EMS Waste Services covers the South West peninsula from Bridgwater and Bridport to Land's End, its website says, including Plymouth, Exeter and Cornwall. It runs 40 lorries, employs over 120 staff and says it processes over 150,000 tonnes of the region's waste. Skips come in a range of sizes for domestic and commercial customers.

About EMS Waste Services Plymouth

EMS Waste Services is a family-run waste management and skip hire business based in Ivybridge, part of the Stuart Group. The business provides skip hire, waste collection and recycling services for domestic and commercial customers across the South West. Services listed include standard skips, RoRo containers for large projects, commercial waste, and scrap metal recycling. The business also operates transfer stations and processes waste for sorting and recycling.

EMS Waste Services covers Exeter, Torbay, Plymouth, Cornwall and Somerset, with transfer stations in Exeter, Torbay and Plymouth. The company operates 40 lorries and employs over 120 staff, processing over 150,000 tonnes of waste annually. The business was founded in the 1940s when Alf Stuart began transport work, and expanded into waste management in the 1980s when Roy Stuart opened an inert landfill site. EMS Waste Services Ltd was acquired in 2009, and between 2012 and 2015 the company brought several regional skip hire businesses into the group. Recent acquisitions include Masters skips in St Austell in January 2022, ABC Siddall's skip hire in November 2023, and YPH in Yeovil in April 2025. In January 2023 EMS invested in a new Kiverco picking system at Hill Barton transfer station to increase throughput and improve recycling quality.