Recyclables Pick Up
Sorting a load properly takes a trailer, a scale house and somewhere to put each pile. We already make those trips, so add yours to ours.
What gets separated
Scrap metal, appliances, cardboard in volume, and electronics. These come off the truck at a recycler rather than the transfer station, which is where most of a mixed junk load would otherwise end up.
Why we bother
Two reasons, and the second one is honest. It keeps usable material out of the ground, and the recoverable weight offsets part of what we pay in disposal fees -- which is part of how we keep our pricing where it is.
Businesses with steady volume
Shops and offices generating cardboard or scrap week after week can have us come on a set rhythm rather than calling each time it stacks up.
Metal in particular
Scrap metal is the category most worth separating out. Appliances, bed frames, shelving, guttering, fencing, old tools and general steel all have somewhere better to go than a landfill, and it is a short detour for us because we are already making that trip for other jobs.
Cardboard in volume
A household rarely generates enough cardboard to matter. A business taking stock in every week does, and it stacks up in a back room until somebody deals with it. We can take it as a one-off or come back on a rhythm that matches how often your deliveries land.
Electronics
Old televisions, monitors, desktops, printers and networking gear should not be going into a skip. Tell us roughly what you have when you call -- the volume decides which facility the load goes to, and whether it needs its own trip.
Appliances count as recycling
It is worth saying plainly, because most people think of an old washer as junk rather than as material. Appliances are mostly steel, and a scrap processor will take them whether or not they still run. That is why a load with three appliances in it disposes differently from a load of mixed household waste, and it is one of the reasons we ask what is in the pile before quoting rather than pricing by the bag.
What we cannot recycle
Not everything with a recycling symbol has somewhere local to go. Mixed plastics in small quantities, contaminated cardboard -- wet, greasy or food-soiled -- and anything holding chemicals or oil are the usual cases. We will still take most of it away as general waste where that is legal, and we will tell you which parts of the load are genuinely being recycled rather than implying the whole thing is. Hazardous material and medical waste stay outside what we can carry at all and need a licensed disposal route.
One-off versus regular
Most of our recycling work is a single visit attached to a bigger clear-out -- the metal and cardboard simply get split off the same load. The businesses that book us repeatedly tend to be the ones generating a predictable amount every week, where the alternative is somebody on staff making trips in their own car. If that is you, it is worth a conversation about a set rhythm rather than calling each time it stacks up.
Recycling Pick Up across the Upstate
We cover Spartanburg, Inman, Greenville, Greer, Wellford, Pacolet, Gaffney, Anderson and the surrounding towns.
Recycling Pick Up questions
Do I have to sort it before you come?
No. We separate the load ourselves once it is on the truck.
Do you take old TVs and computers?
Electronics generally, yes. Tell us what you have when you call so we know which facility the load is going to.
Do you pay for scrap metal?
We do not buy scrap. Recycling is part of how we dispose of a job properly, not a separate service we purchase from you.