This article showcases our top picks for the best Chicago based Recycling companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Recycling industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Chicago Recycling Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Rheaply
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Rheaply’s platform enables organizations to exchange materials and resources more effectively, eliminating unnecessary waste and spend.
PartsTrader Markets Limited
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Online marketplace for auto parts trading more than $1.4B per annum with tens of thousands of business users in the US and New Zealand.
Everywhere Apparel
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Everywhere Apparel manufactures clothes created from recycled textiles intended to clean the earth while clothing the planet.
LKQ Corporation
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LKQ Corporation is the largest nationwide provider of alternative collision replacement parts and a leading provider of recycled engines
Sims Recycling Solutions
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Sims Recycling Solutions uses comprehensive recovery processes to unlock the value in electronic business assets whilst providing high
Scrap Metal Services
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Scrap Metal Services is a supplier of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap commodities to both domestic and international consumers.
USAgain
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USAgain operates for people and planet, collecting reusable clothes and shoes to be re-worn, and reused.
Chicago Heights Steel
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Chicago Heights Steel recycles rail steels into usable products applicable in farms, ranches, cities and job sites.
Imperial Zinc
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Imperial Zinc manufacturers of zinc alloys and zinc anodes, that produces and distributes metal products, and offers zinc, specs products.
Marcells Paper & Metal
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Marcells Paper & Metal provides recycling, document shredding, and waste collection services.
Re-Poly
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Re-Poly developed a unique process to transform hard-to-recover, post-consumer plastics into the types of consistent.
Loop Paper Recycling
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Loop Paper Recycling offers Bale Route Service, Book Recycling, Box Truck Services, Customized Recycling Services, E-Recycling Services.
Smart Tow Inc
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Cash For Junk Cars Chicago is a leader in junk car removal in chicago. We pay top dollar for your junk car.
R4 Services
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R4 Services offers hard drive destruction, document storage, and vault services.
Build Reuse
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Build Reuse provides recovery, reuse, and recycling of building materials.
A & A Midwest
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A & A Midwest specializes in auto wrecking, auto recycling, export, and aftermarket services.
Resource Management Companies
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RMC owns and operates material recovery facilities that acquire, receive, process, and commercialize recyclable materials.
AVA Recycling
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Ava Recycling is a recycling company that is specialized in electronic recycling, de-manufacturing of computers & electronics.
Urban Remains
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Urban Remains focuses on the reclamation of American architectural artifacts, antiques and other oddities.
RMG
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RMG specializes in ferrous, non-ferrous scrap, electronics recycling, IT asset conversion, stevedoring, and warehousing services
Continental Paper Grading
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Continental Paper Grading is a waste paper brokerage engaged in recycling and international brokering of scrap paper and plastics products.
Alpha Metal Recycling
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Alpha Metal Recycling offers every type of container equipment for storage and removal of scrap, with pick-up by trucks.