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Hard-to-recycle waste, recycled

We recycle what the blue bin won't take.

Bottle caps, batteries, coffee capsules, worn-out shoes. Curbside programs turn them away. We sort them, bale them and sell them back to manufacturers as raw material.

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Thousands of sorted plastic bottle caps in red, green, yellow and blue, held in a wire cage
BALE 0417 · PP CAPS · 1,040 LB
Materials accepted
120+
Processing plants
4
Of accepted weight recycled
98%
Days to schedule a pickup
2

The problem

9%of the world's plastic waste gets recycled.

Most of the rest could be. It gets buried because sorting it costs more than the material sells for. Curbside programs take what pays its own way: aluminum cans, cardboard, clear bottles. We build a paid route for everything else.

  • Recycled 9%
  • Incinerated 19%
  • Landfilled 50%
  • Mismanaged 22%

Source: OECD, Global Plastics Outlook (2022). Global plastic waste, 2019.

A landfill seen from above, with vehicles parked among scattered waste

What we do

Three ways to send it to us

Four wheeled collection bins in yellow, blue, red and green against a gray wall

For brands and retailers

Take-back programs

Give your customers a free way to send your packaging back. We set up the mail-in labels or the in-store bins, move the freight and report what came in.

  • Mail-in or in-store drop-off
  • Your packaging sorted and weighed on its own
  • Quarterly report by weight and product line
Plan a program
A row of industrial batteries with red and blue terminal caps

For plants, warehouses and offices

Commercial pickups

Batteries, lamps, electronics and other regulated waste, collected from your dock on a schedule you set.

  • Containers and paperwork for universal waste
  • Pickups booked within two business days
  • Certificate of recycling for every load
Schedule a pickup
Rows of open, empty cardboard boxes

For households, shops and small teams

Fill-and-Ship Box

Order a prepaid box for one material or a mix. Fill it, tape it and hand it to the carrier. Shipping and recycling are included in the price.

  • Three sizes, from desk-side to pallet
  • Return label already on the box
  • Takes most materials on the list below
Order a box

Accepted materials

Find your material

These are the 24 materials people ask about most. If yours is missing, ask. We add new ones every quarter.

Used household batteries standing on end, seen from above
Batteries
Circuit boards exposed inside a discarded appliance
Circuit boards
Piles of fabric scraps being sorted by color in a warehouse
Textiles
Compressed bales of waste paper and cardboard
Paper and fiber

Box prepaid Fill-and-Ship Box · Pickup scheduled truck · Program brand-funded take-back

    Numbers are resin identification codes. UNIV marks universal waste under U.S. EPA rules, which covers batteries and lamps.

    How it works

    From your dock to a factory's hopper

    1. The recycling symbol on the side of a blue bin 01

      Collect

      Fill a prepaid box, a drop-off bin in your store or a gaylord on your dock.

    2. A yellow tipper truck unloading mixed material inside a covered facility 02

      Ship or schedule

      Hand the box to the carrier or book a truck. Every load is weighed when it arrives.

    3. Compressed bales of mixed plastic packaging 03

      Sort and bale

      We sort by material and press it into bales of about half a ton each.

    4. Close-up of teal plastic pellets 04

      Back into material

      Bales are shredded, washed and pelletized, then sold to manufacturers. You get a certificate with the weight recycled.

    Facilities

    Four plants, one chain of custody

    Your material stays in our buildings from the scale at the door to the truck that takes the pellets out.

    LocationFloor areaHandles
    Phoenix, AZ92,000 sq ftPlastics sorting and baling
    Sparks, NV38,000 sq ftBatteries and lamps
    Joliet, IL110,000 sq ftElectronics, textiles
    Bethlehem, PA54,000 sq ftBox receiving, paper and fiber
    A forklift between tall pallet racks in a warehouse An outdoor screening machine with a conveyor belt

    Weighed in, weighed out

    Each load gets a scale ticket on arrival. Your report shows pounds received and pounds recycled.

    Buyers audited every year

    We visit the manufacturers who buy our bales and pellets and check where the material goes.

    Nothing exported unprocessed

    Material leaves our plants as sorted bales or finished pellets, never as mixed waste.

    Get a quote

    Tell us what you need to get rid of

    Say what the material is and roughly how much of it you have. We answer with a route and a price within one business day.