2008 2007
Rank Rank
Company Name
Headquarters / Ownership
Top Recycling
Executive / Title
2008 2007 2008
Recycling Recycling Recycling
Revenue Revenue Employment
In millions of dollars
2008
Recycling
Volume
(thousand
tons)
Materials#
Recycled
No. of
Recycling
Facilities
Web site
33
31 Shapiro Metals
St. Louis, Mo. / Private
41 Heritage-Crystal Clean Inc.
Elgin, Ill. / Public
37 B. Schoenberg & Co. 3
Yorktown, N. Y. / Private
38 Calbag Metals Co. 3
Portland, Ore. / Private
49 Industrial Services of
America Inc.
Louisville, Ky. / Public
— Clean Earth Inc.
Hatboro, Pa. / Private
36 Universal Scrap Metals Inc.
Chicago, Ill. / Private
39 Wooster Iron & Metal3
Wooster, Ohio / Private
43 w Te Corp.
Bedford, Mass. / Private
42 A&L Iron and Metal Co. 2
Gaylord, Mich. / Private
51 Custom Polymers Inc.
Charlotte, N.C. / Private
44 Dekka Resins Inc. 3
Brantford, Ontario / Private
44 Envision Plastics3
Reidsville, N.C. / Private
44 Rapid Industries Plastics
Co. Inc. 3
Jersey City, N.J. / Private
— Hudson Baylor Corp.
Newburgh, N. Y. / Private
65 American Compressed
Steel Corp.
Cincinnati, Ohio / Private
50 Great Lakes Recycling
Roseville, Mich. / Private
62 Nexcycle Canada
Brampton, Ontario / Private
Bruce Shapiro
President
Joe Chalhoub
CEO
Matthew Kness
Vice President
Warren Rosenfeld
President
Jim Wiseman
Vice President
$120.0
$135.0
N.A.
N.A.
2
7 www.shapirometals.com
34
$108.1
$89.7
486
N.A.
2, 11, 12
54 www.crystal-clean.com
35
$102.7
$102.7
60
55
3
4 www.bschoenbergco.com
36
$100.0
$100.0
70
60
2
2 www.calbag.com
36
$100.0
$77.0
115
108
1, 2, 3
3 www.isa-inc.com
38
William Massa
CEO
Philip Zeid
President
David Spector
President/CEO
M. Scott Mellen
President/CEO
Arnold Higley
President
John Calhoun II
Partner
Roy Keighley
General Manager
Massoud Rad
President
Todd Raynor
General Manager
$99.1
$85.8
143
2,550
12
7 www.cleanearthinc.com
39
$91.7
$115.1
55
50
2, 11
2 www.universalscrap.com
40
$85.0
$85.0
150
285
2
5 N.A.
41
$79.2
$64.6
140
177
2, 3
3 www.wte.com
42
$71.0
$59.2
102
193
2
4 N.A.
43
$64.0
$52.0
N.A.
120
3
N.A. www.custompolymers.com
44
$60.0
$60.0
110
65
3
2 www.dekkaresins.com
44
$60.0
$60.0
110
36
3
3 www.envisionplastics.com
44
$60.0
$60.0
150
40
3
5 N.A.
47
H. Scott Tenney
President
Larry Byer
Owner
$57.4
$44.6
300
465
1, 2, 3, 4
11 www.hudsonbaylor.com
48
$57.0
$34.0
55
146
2
1 www.acomsteel.com
49
Sandy Rosen
CEO
Laurie Borg
President
$55.2
$57.5
167
193.1
1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 11
5 www.go-glr.com
50
$52.5
$52.3
163
163
3, 4
4 www.npiplastic.com
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