Encore Recycling

Quick Easy and Free

Encore Helps You Cut Costs
Our services are absolutely free. Landfill fees are expensive, typically around $110 per ton. We help you avoid that cost. A grower with 1,000 acres will save $110,000 per year by using our service! The savings don’t stop there, we have staff on-hand to help your driver unload the plastic film waste at our drop-off locations.

Drop-Off Locations Near You
We have local hubs to make drop offs quick and easy. Other services ask growers to transport plastic to a corner of their field and wait for someone pick it up. Get the waste off your field right away, so it can be prepared for the next crop.

We Know Plastic

With 24 years of plastic manufacturing experience, Encore is an industry leader in plastic recycling and manufacturing technologies. Encore’s staff of nearly 300 employees includes the world’s best and brightest in plastic technologies. With a state of the art 200,000 square foot recycling and manufacturing facility in Vernon, CA, and another 200,000 square foot dedicated agricultural recycling plant in Salinas, Encore is the envy of the plastic industry. Plastic isn’t simply a new venture for Encore, its what we do.

Encore is the industry leader in the recycling of agricultural plastics.

• As a U.S. manufacturer, we must adhere to higher standards and practices
• First U.S. manufacturer to receive the Environmentally Preferred Rating (EPR)
• Committed to reducing plastic waste
• Dedicated to serving growers’ needs

Recycling with a Purpose

Encore Recycling partners with local growers to collect, wash, and recycle the more than 100 million pounds of agricultural plastic that is currently being disposed of in California landfills each year. This partnership and program is most effective way to help California create the standard for a sustainable and closed-loop recycling system.

This state-of-the-art, 180,000 square foot plastic recycling facility in the Salinas Valley was built with the vision of “recycling with a purpose.” Parent company, US-based, Command Packaging uses this recycled plastic specifically for reusable grocery, shopping and restaurant bags which in turn can be fully recyclable at the end of life, essentially creating a continuous loop of sustainable plastic supply that need not ever see a landfill.

Some of the largest multi-national and recognizable names such as, Dole, Gold Farms, Ramco, Red Blossom Strawberries, as well as many independent growers, are working with Encore Recycling to ensure that their plastic is collected and recycled.