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Top 25 Beverage container recyclers based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 778 beverage container recyclers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 51,724 professional contacts across them, including 15,710 with verified work emails. Chicago is the largest hub.
This list covers beverage container recyclers headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest beverage container recyclers based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24,303 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WM is North America's leading provider of integrated environmental solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 9,772 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Transforming glassmaking with purpose, through the Power of Glass.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,797 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Plymouth, Michigan, Plastipak designs and manufactures high-quality, rigid plastic containers for the food, beverage and consumer products…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,231 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Casella, headquartered in Rutland, Vermont, is one of the largest recyclers and most experienced fully integrated resource management companies in the Eastern United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 957 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Recology, you’ll join a team of passionate, creative, and dedicated individuals who are leaders in sustainability.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 887 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CKS Packaging is a privately owned manufacturer and supplier of rigid plastic packaging with 27 locations in the United States, headquartered in Atlanta.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 577 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Who We Are: Athens Services is a family-owned and operated waste collection and recycling company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 503 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Containers that embrace your product and advance your brand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 499 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 367 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We have continued to innovate the recycling industry for four generations, while serving as an essential resource to those needing our services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 280 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ball Corporation is a global aluminum packaging company and sustainability leader providing packaging solutions for beverages, personal care and household products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 254 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our innovative reverse vending solutions keep bottles and cans in the loop of reuse and out of our streets, oceans and landfills.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 228 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Delivering sustainable material solutions since 1968.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 228 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With a 125 year history, Strategic Materials, Inc (SMI) is North America’s largest and most comprehensive glass recycler, with over 50 locations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 218 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Whirley-DrinkWorks!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 192 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1978, United Scrap Metal (USM) is an award-winning provider of innovative recycling and sustainability solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 153 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Otto Environmental Systems is here to serve YOU!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Deffenbaugh Industries is Kansas City's leading provider in waste disposal and recycling services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Southeastern Container is one of the largest PET converters, providing PET bottles, PET preforms, and HDPE pallets for the Coca-Cola bottling system.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 128 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GreenWaste has been an industry leader in recycling and waste diversion for more than 35 years and is on a growth trajectory after private equity investment in 2021.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PakTech designs and manufactures recyclable injection molded HDPE plastic handles for the food and beverage industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Quincy Recycle is in the business of solving waste stream problems for manufacturers and other industrial customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The nearly 275 dedicated employees of Mervis Industries currently serve clients throughout North America and into the Pacific Rim.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative (OBRC) is the industry steward of Oregon’s nationally recognized beverage container redemption program.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Venture Metals, LLC procures, processes and sells ferrous, nonferrous and alloy metals for recycling and remelting purposes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: beverage container recyclers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names beverage container recyclers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of beverage container recyclers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name beverage container recyclers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Beverage container recyclers based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 778 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among beverage container recyclers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “beverage container recyclers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names beverage container recyclers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among beverage container recyclers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 15,710 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names beverage container recyclers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many beverage container recyclers are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 778 beverage container recyclers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
WM, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most beverage container recyclers?
Chicago leads with 18 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (11) and Los Angeles (10).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 15,710 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 778 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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