Tennessee American Recycling

Tennessee American Recycling welcomes you. Our company is ready to serve your recycling needs. From office paper recycling programs to full truck load shipments, our professionals will serve you with our unique brand of quality, value and integrity.With a large full service recycling plant in the heart of Knoxville plus sales and marketing offices in Georgia, Wisconsin and South Carolina serving domestic and international markets, Tennessee American is the premier source of superior recycling and recovered material solutions in eastern Tennessee.

Tennessee American Recycling is one of the largest independently owned collectors, processors, and marketers of recovered paper in eastern Tennessee . Locally owned and operated by Clark Lindsey, an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in every facet of the Recovered Material Business,  Tennesee American Recycling maintains a family-oriented approach to business in all interactions with its associates and customers.

We believe in creating long-term relationships with our stakeholders and maintaining exceptional customer service.  We still insist on a real person answering the phone!

Our company is ready to serve your recycling needs. From office paper recycling programs to full truck load shipments, our professionals will serve you with our unique brand of quality, value and integrity.

Tennessee American Recycling offers services to all types of recovered material  generators and provides flexible, customized programs that help our clients increase efficiency reduce waste and optimize their environmental stewardship.

We work with Commercial Printers, Office Complexes, Municipalities, Manufacturing and Distribution facilities, Commercial Shredding Companies and Paper Converters and Merchants.  We partner with leading mill consumers who remanufacture our recovered material into all types of consumer products.

Mission of  Tennessee American Recycling

• To be diligent and efficient in all we do, maintaining the highest level of professionalism, quality and integrity.

• To provide the highest level of service to our stakeholders by responding to their needs, questions and concerns with promptness, courtesy and respect.

• To treat our co-workers with compassion, dignity, and respect while providing a work environment that promotes personal growth.

• To establish, and maintain the highest quality, comprehensive recycling programs with the aim of adding value to all client relationships.

• To provide a consistent supply of raw material fiber that exceeds the desired expectations of our mill customers.

• To be productive and contributing members of the communities in which our operations reside. To help to preserve our environment by saving natural resources and landfill space.