Fisher Recycling

Fisher Recycling is South Carolina's first full-circle vendor of recycled materials. We create custom countertops from recycled glass for residential, commercial, and industrial applications.For more than two decades, Fisher Recycling has bridged the gap between environmentally sound and sustainable recycling practices and businesses. Fisher offers recycling services for offices, restaurants, hotels and manufacturers, collecting mixed paper, cardboard and glass, as well as used electronic equipment.

Fisher Recycling is South Carolina’s first full-circle vendor of recycled materials, creating custom countertops from recycled glass for residential, commercial, and industrial applications. Fisher can recycle your glass bottles and make them into your new kitchen counter tops! Completing the recycling loop means that the company truly offers the Lowcountry a completely eco-friendly alternative for many materials that would have been produced elsewhere and transported here. With a dedication to community and industry involvement at the core of its business, Fisher Recycling promotes local entrepreneurship, local philanthropy and, most importantly, the sustainability of the environment.

History

Founded by Chris Fisher in 1992, Fisher Recycling began as a humble one-person operation, collecting recyclable goods from several Charleston restaurants and offices at the request of the business owners. Driving an old, decrepit pick-up truck, Chris Fisher, an “ecopreneur” in the making, was performing a job that restaurant owners and office managers didn’t have time to accomplish – collecting and disposing their recyclable waste.

By 1994, the Charleston, South Carolina business community had embraced Fisher Recycling’s concept of office and restaurant recycling. Scheduled collections, in-house education and dedication to customer satisfaction grew Fisher’s client base from just a few daily collections to more than 30 recycling collections each day. Once well-known for his signature dented, blue pick-up truck, Fisher had to create a fleet, led by “Big Red,” the company’s first real recycling truck, to meet the company’s growing client recycling needs.

In the winter of 2005, the company expanded its warehouse space on to the old Navy Base, located on the revived and renovated “The Navy Yard.” Fisher Recycling actually completes the local recycling loop by processing some of the glass collected and reusing it in a new product line for homes and businesses. This product line is called “GlassEco” and offers custom made countertops, wet bars, loose glass aggregate for landscaping and decorative applications.

Since that time, Fisher has recycled over 8.5 million pounds of aluminum, glass, plastic, and tin and 24 million pounds (12,000 tons) of office paper, newspaper, magazines, and cardboard. Fisher Recycling serves a client base that ranges from restaurants to offices and business parks to hotels and resorts in Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties. The company also collects e-scrap, or old electronics from area businesses, and developed and implemented successful residential projects on Daniel Island for seven years. Despite the changes of growth and development that the company has experienced, the one constant that continues to guide Fisher Recycling is their commitment to the company philosophy and purpose to educate and serve the community’s business recycling needs.

Recycled Products include:

• Countertops
• Landscape Products
• and more!

Why it’s important to “Go Local” and how to do it:

Charleston has an alliance of local independent businesses. It is Lowcountry Local First, www.lowcountrylocalfirst.org, we support them whenever we can by doing business with the membership and our community. Check out their website for fascinating facts about spending dollars in our town.

Ask stores, food markets and restaurants about the origins of their products. Let the owners know you care about conscientious sourcing.Support local artists and craftspeople. Artist co-ops and many galleries represent regional artists.When remodeling, hire local iron and metalworkers; textile; cabinet, furniture and lamp makers. Try not to order from catalogs online, avoid shipping and spend your dollars locally.

Introduction to Commercial Services

Fisher Recycling is in the business of conservation. That’s why we have designed a four-step introductory process that conserves your time while ensuring that we are creating the best recycling solution for your business. Whether you are in Berkeley, Dorchester 0r Charleston County we can fit the recycling needs of your business.

WASTE AUDIT

The waste audit is conducted by trained and experienced members of our team. A simple walk-through of your office, restaurant or facility will give us the information we need to develop the best, most cost-effective recycling solution for your business.

RECYCLING SOLUTION DESIGN

Our recycling solutions are based completely on the needs of your business. The range of frequency for our services is from once a month to six days a week. Our staff will work with you to determine what solution will work best for your business. We supply a variety of containers for work stations, wait stations and hotels.

EDUCATION

We offer educational sessions for all new clients, as well as seasonal and permanent employees. The key to maximizing the return on your company’s recycling solution is to educate all members of your staff on HOW and WHAT to recycle, and most importantly – to monitor your waste.

EVALUATION

Fisher Recycling will assess your business recycling solution on an annual basis, determining whether or not the solution still meets the needs of the business. This evaluation will tell us whether or not we need to update our scheduling of your pick-up, adjust the bin quantities at your location and address other service related issues. Evaluations are also available upon request.

Residential Recycling

Our services in the neighborhood of  Beresford Hall, Beresford Creek Landing and Shell Ring Circle are every other Friday. The service includes curbside collection and (2) 22 gallon bins for mixed papers, junk mail, paperboard and commingled (glass, plastics #1 – 7, aluminum and tin).

GlassEco

Our GlassEco product lines include a wide variety of elegant and contemporary hard surfaces and landscaping aggregate. The products are manufactured at our warehouse on the old Navy Base near Park Circle in North Charleston. The facility is day-lit and heavily ventilated by outside air, conserving electricity. By using a converted warehouse, this space was saved from destruction.

The countertops are individually handcrafted and customized, using 100% recycled glass and diverting tons of glass from our landfills. The epoxy used is Low VOC (volatile organic compounds) and emits no off gassing. The newest product base is a high density, UV protected concrete. We now have indoor and outdoor options. As with the resin, the concrete offer the same creative aspects through glass choices.Our glass derivative products satisfy the desire for a natural stone appearance, while eliminating the negative environmental impact of natural stone. The system we use crushes the glass and produces eight different sizes of cullet, so the potential for uses is based on your needs and your creativity. These hard surfaces are heat and scratch resistant, transforming both contemporary and traditional home and workspaces into unique and expressive environments.