Career path

Garbage and Recycling Collectors

The skills this job asks for, and the level for each.

Skills for this career path

25 skills listed by ESCO, 9 of them essential. 25 are in our skills list and linked; we measure a match on those. ESCO gives no levels, so we ask for level 3 on an essential skill and 2 on the rest.

Essential · Skills (6)

Essential · Knowledge (3)

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Optional · Skills (13)

Occupation: ISCO-08 occupations (International Labour Organization). Skills: This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission (v1.2.1, CC BY 4.0), modified by CareersMatch.

What the “Garbage and Recycling Collectors” career path asks for

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Skills

Showing 10 of 25, essentials first. The table below lists them all.

Skills this job asks for

Skills asked for32

Essential14

Occupation codeisco08:9611

SourceISCO-08 (ILO) unit groups with ESCO v1.2.1 skills (European Commission, CC BY 4.0), modified by CareersMatch; built 2026-09-24

Skills for Garbage and Recycling Collectors
Skill	Type	Necessity	Level
assess waste type	skill	essential	3
Collaboration	competency	essential	3

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