The largest U.S. and Canadian companies ranked by revenue
from the collection, processing and sale of recyclables.
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
11
16 Miller Compressing Co. John Busby
Milwaukee, Wis. / Private President/CEO
13 Veolia Environmental Services Richard Burke
North America Corp. President/CEO
Chicago, Ill. / Public
14 Allan Company
Baldwin Park, Calif. / Private
22 Mervis Industries Inc.
Danville, Ill. / Private
17 Metro Waste Paper
Recovery Inc.
Toronto, Ontario / Private
25 Schupan & Sons Inc.
Kalamazoo, Mich. / Private
19 Wimco Metals Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pa. / Private
21 KW Plastics Recycling
Division3
Troy, Ala. / Private
20 Tomra North America
Shelton, Conn. / Public
15 The Newark Group
Cranford, N.J. / Private
23 Strategic Materials Inc.
Houston, Texas / Private
24 Caraustar RFG1
Austell, Ga. / Public
$500.0
$450.0
300
1,000
2, 3, 11, 12
8 www.millercompressing.com
12
$464.0
$408.0
950
5,000
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 69
11, 12
www.veoliaes.com
13
Stephen Young
President
Adam Mervis
President/CEO
Al Metauro
President/CEO
$388.0
$299.1
214
1,310
1, 2, 3, 4, 11
12 www.allancompany.com
14
$288.3
$220.0
300
617
1, 2, 3, 5, 11
14 www.mervis.com
15
$252.2
$253.8
977
1,402
1, 2, 3, 4, 11
17 www.metrowaste.com
16
Marc Schupan
CEO
Glen Gross
CEO
J. Scott Saunders
General Manager
$233.0
$168.2
173
225
2, 3, 4
5 www.schupan.com
17
$230.0
$240.0
30
75.5
2
1 N.A.
18
$223.0
$223.0
N.A.
250
3
3 www.kwplastics.com
19
Stefan Ranstrand $215.0
President/CEO
Jonathan Gold $208.0
Senior Vice President
I. T. Corley $201.0
CEO
Mike Keough $200.0
CEO
$219.0
1,008
292.4
2, 3, 4
13 www.tomra.com
20
$350.5
203
1,929
1, 3, 4
14 www.newarkgroup.com
21
$196.0
713
1,968
2, 3, 4
41 www.strategicmaterials.com
22
$200.0
178
2,890
1, 3
7 www.caraustar.com
See Footnotes on Page 26
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