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Top 25 Plastic bottle recyclers based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 496 plastic bottle recyclers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 6,926 professional contacts across them, including 2,227 with verified work emails. Chicago is the largest hub.
This list covers plastic bottle 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 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 plastic bottle recyclers based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 254 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 228 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Delivering sustainable material solutions since 1968.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At CP Group, we lead in Advanced Sorting Systems as a proud OEM, Made in America!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 153 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Otto Environmental Systems is here to serve YOU!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 140 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 75 years, Polycon has remained privately-owned and focused on its commitment to quality, service and flexibility.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 9 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 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. | |||||
| 12 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 13 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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. | |||||
| 15 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to rPlanet Earth® We revolutionized how packaging is made to create the highest-quality products from post-consumer recycled PET, while leaving the lowest possible carbon…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are North America’s leader in unsaleable beverage destruction and recycling.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nexus Circular is an advanced recycling company at the center of the circular economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 19 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 20 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 21 | 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. | |||||
| 22 | 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. | |||||
| 23 | 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. | |||||
| 24 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RE:CIRCLE Solutions develops closed loop solutions for waste through collaboration.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NRT provides cutting edge sorting solutions to the recycling industry.” 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: plastic bottle 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 plastic bottle recyclers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of plastic bottle recyclers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name plastic bottle 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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Plastic bottle recyclers 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 496 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 plastic bottle 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 “plastic bottle 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 plastic bottle 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 plastic bottle 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, 2,227 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 plastic bottle 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 plastic bottle recyclers are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 496 plastic bottle 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?
Padnos, headquartered in Holland, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most plastic bottle recyclers?
Chicago leads with 11 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (7) and Atlanta (5).
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 2,227 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 496 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.
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