A1 Group of Companies

The A1 Group comprises of;

A1 Wokingham Wet Waste Ltd
A1 Loo Hire Ltd
A1 Wokingham Car Spares & Scrap Metal

It’s our mission to take the headaches out of waste management.  

Customers all over the country trust us to look after their waste. We’ve got the expertise, the technology and the capacity to offer you affordable, expert services with outstanding customer care. 

We’re a leading name in loo hire, metal recycling and vehicle depollution too. 

Our Family

A1 is a family business and it shows. Waste management and recycling are what we do, and we're always looking for ways to improve our services and impress our customers old and new. 

The A1 Group has been established since 1971 and has recently seen significant growth in all areas of the business. This growth has led to the A1 Group achieving an unrivaled level of commitment and resource to meet client demands in the fields of wet waste disposal, metal recycling, car spares and loo hire.

Our History

From a pig farm back in the 60's, to a multi-functioning scrap yard - with some toilets and tankers in the midst. We've detailed some of our defining moments that got us where we are today.

1965

If there’s one thing we’ve always had at A1, it’s a can-do attitude. Here, you can see Mick and Russell Pike building sheds for the pigs.

1976

Just over 10 years later, and the Pikes’ lives had been transformed. Here’s A1’s first car transporter and — in the background — the office that we still use today.

1977

Here’s Terry Coke, one of A1’s first employees and still a regular today. He built the yard and used it to crush cars for us. In the background, the first racks for car spares.

1979

Our first real car crusher — the key to upscaling the business. Still, that didn’t stop Terry sticking with tried and tested methods — he crushed the cars by driving over them in the digger!

1980

We got our first skip lorry this year, and set about collecting scrap metal and household waste. And, we launched the tyre department — great for our fleet, and for customers needing part-worn tyres.

1981

Russell, Jean and Dave Martin — one of A1’s first employees — outside our first ever office.

1985

1985 saw the purchase of a brand new skip lorry this year — the first new vehicle A1 ever owned!

1986-87

Time for new offices, and our first weigh bridge, bought second hand for £2,000. Now we had room for more staff, and our customers could come in and weigh their own scrap metal. 

1990

A1 Wokingham Wet Waste was born in 1990 with the purchase of our first tanker. Russell and the team began clearing our drains and effluent tanks.

2002

My, how we’ve grown! Here’s the yard in 2002 with depollution rigs in full force, and our new Colmar bailer — an £80,000 investment — at the bottom of the yard. Toilets are also starting to appear — our baby Loo Hire division!

2004

A1 Loo Hire’s official launch. We welcomed our Director, Clive Owen, who’d previously been MD for one of our Wet Waste clients. He and Russell orchestrated our expansion from Wet Waste to Loo Hire.

2012

We installed new racks in the car spares department — an £120,000 investment that allowed us to safely store over 500 cars. And at the bottom of the yard, our depollution shed, where processed large numbers of vehicles from contracts with police services across the south east.

2017

By 2017, demand for our car recycling services was soaring — we invested over £2 million in a new crusher to increase capacity — and our Loo Hire division had taken over a large swathe of the yard. By this point, we’d achieved a number of ISO accreditations, and health and safety had become top priority, as you’ll see from the layout: each department is expertly organised and divided to keep staff and customers safe.