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Top 25 Paper waste processors based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 459 paper waste processors headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 6,257 professional contacts across them, including 2,140 with verified work emails. Chicago is the largest hub.
This list covers paper waste processors 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 20, 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 paper waste processors based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 829 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SA Recycling is one of the largest scrap metal recyclers in North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 228 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “An Alamo Group Inc.(NYSE: ALG) holding, Morbark, LLC, has been innovating and manufacturing durable, high-performance equipment for more than 60 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 181 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kadant Black Clawson develops and manufactures custom-engineered systems and equipment, as well as standard individual components for pulping, de-inking, screening, cleaning, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Deffenbaugh Industries is Kansas City's leading provider in waste disposal and recycling services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 128 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ever wondered where all that paper and plastic to be recycled goes?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dynamic markets require dynamic thinking.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EMR is a global leader in sustainable materials, with physical operations in the UK, USA, Germany and the Netherlands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sierra International Machinery is a worldwide leader in selling and supporting of processing equipment to the metal, recycling, and waste industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Customized B2B recycling programs to help companies meet their waste diversion goals, mazimize income from commodities sales, and reduce labor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nestled in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania’s eastern Allegheny Mountains, American Eagle Paper Mills serves as the lifeblood of the town of Tyrone and its surrounding community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Waste Eliminator is one of the nation’s fastest growing and most progressive waste collection and recycling firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Recycling Management Resources (RMR) is a plant-based recycling group focused on maximizing its client’s revenue generation from recyclable paper, plastic, and metal scrap.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EL Harvey & Sons is a full-service waste hauling, transfer, and recycling operation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Komar Industries, LLC is an American designer and manufacturer of waste handling equipment founded in 1977.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We specialize in solutions that transform waste materials into valuable end products like colored landscape mulch, animal bedding, compost, and more.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Interco is an American global recycling company headquartered in St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Canusa Hershman is committed to building lifelong relationships with clients and we work diligently to innovate new ideas that improve client satisfaction.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Waste and recycling collection company in Madison, WI.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dixie Pulp & Paper markets off-grade paper, board, tissue and pulp throughout the United States and abroad with sales representatives all over the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Who We Are Tradepro Inc, established in 1989, is a long-trusted and reliable plastics recycler and supplier of plastic raw materials.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Recycling Equipment Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Balemaster equipment has been meeting the real-world automatic waste handling and recycling requirements in a wide range of international markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: paper waste processors. 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 paper waste processors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of paper waste processors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name paper waste processors. 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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Paper waste processors based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 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 459 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 paper waste processors, 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 “paper waste processors”. 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 paper waste processors), 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 paper waste processors, 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, 2,140 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 20, 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 paper waste processors, 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 paper waste processors are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 459 paper waste processors 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?
SA Recycling, headquartered in Orange, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most paper waste processors?
Chicago leads with 8 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (6) and Miami (6).
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 2,140 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 459 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 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.