Southern Recycling

Southern Recycling is a full service recycling company serving Tennessee, Kentucky, and the surrounding states. Southern Recycling is a Houchens Industries company. Specializing in peddler to large industrial recycling, Southern Recycling is the answer to your recycling needs. Our dedicated logistics team strives to make your company’s scrap management goals a success. Southern Recycling welcomes you to any of our locations and we look forward to serving you.Southern Recycling has three convenient locations for our customers to bring their scrap metals and recyclables. Southern Recycling provides three full service yards accepting truck load quantities, to small scale traffic. Southern Recycling is equipped with digital drive-on and peddler scales at all three locations. WHAT WE RECYCLESouthern Recycling follows the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Non Ferrous Metals :CopperBrassAluminumLeadStainless steel Ferrous Metals :SteelsIrons Precious Metals (Contact the buyer in your area for more details) Mixed Metals Shreddables Unacceptable Materials: Corrugated (OCC) – Better known as cardboard:Loose cardboard(Our Bowling Green & Owensboro, KY locations accept loose corrugated for bailing)Baled cardboard(Refer to our Business to Business page; SR provides pick-up for baled corrugated) Paper Newspaper (ONP)Magazines (OMG)Office paper (SOP) (UOP) Plastics Bowling Green 1-7s; Owensboro 1-2sPlastic film (LDPE, HDPE, LLDPE)PolypropyleneNylonAbsPet Southern Recycling’s staff is dedicated to solving and managing your company’s scrap metal and recycling needs. Our staff strives to get you and your company the vital information requested to maximize your goals in a timely and efficient manner. Our dedicated buyers strive to work with you and your organization. Contact your buyer today and they will be glad to visit you and your company to answer any questions you may have.Materials Accepted: Non-ferrous; ferrous; scrap cars; shreddables; paper; plasticsFeatures: Shearing, bailing, torchingOUR SERVICESMetal shredding Mobile car crushing Containers & logistics Bailed cardboard (OCC) pick-up Shearing & torching Bailing