Four States Recycling

Four States Recycling is family owned and operated in Amarillo, Texas while servicing a wide radius of clients in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Kansas. These past 5 years have shown tremendous growth and success that we attribute to our never-ending commitment to our clients direct needs, utilization of the most current technologies and industry innovations and overall customer satisfaction. Our success only comes from exceeding our clients expectations and providing peace of mind. From this we have earned the trust of our clients and been able to provide the best overall value and experience when dealing with the destruction of their confidential materials.It’s been an honor and a pleasure working with such tremendous people throughout the years and we look forward in growing together moving forward.Four States Recycling has been an industry leader for cardboard, paper and plastic for the past 35 years in the Texas, Colorado and Oklahoma Areas. As the need for recycling has grown exponentially we have had the privilege of keeping hundreds of thousands of tons of these products out of the landfill. We hope you are as proud of that as we are and encourage you to bring your paper, plastic and cardboard to our facilities recycling.We also provide a certificate of destruction to anyone who requests it and we stand behind our promise that all personal documents will be securely destroyed. You can even watch as we do it.

Mission

Four States Recycling is committed to providing the most secure document shredding and purge services in the industry. Through this commitment our clients will receive the peace of mind that will allow them to operate more effectively at what they do, without worry. We will do this with the most environmentally friendly methods available while our clients realize, by choosing us, they have helped make the earth a much greener place.

Our Promise

As an office manager or business owner you know you have to securely shred your confidential documents. With many options out there it can become confusing as to your next steps and options. As the industry leader we would like to share with you some of the reasons that we are selected as the document shredding and purge services partner of choice.
We're secure, we furnish locked bins for your site, if it is picked up today it is shredded today. Since shredded documents are commingled and no single customer's shredded documents are separated, all shredded material is baled and shipped directly to our paper mill customers and used as raw material in the paper making process.
Security. Leaving it up to your employees to decide what to destroy can be problematic and important documents can find their way into the trash instead of the office paper shredder. Providing your employees with a convenient locked bin where documents can be securely disposed of is an easy and affordable answer. With Four States, your sensitive materials are secure from the moment they are picked up until the time they are shredded, guaranteed!
A certificate of destruction, is issued as legal documentation for your records and is sent following every service.
Shredding with us costs a lot less than you might think (around $1 a day). We have no additional charges such as fuel surcharges or pick up fees. We charge a fixed flat price per container or box and never by the pound or by the minute-like the other paper shredding companies. Budgeting your document destruction costs is easy and predictable.
Current industry analysis of internal costs (shredders, employees, electricity, equipment maintenance, etc) of the document destruction process states that on average businesses spend three times the amount to perform this task. We cost less than doing it yourself.

Recycling

Cardboard Recycling
Our bread and butter is paper and cardboard recycling. We are able to process these materials for recycling into other products at a local mill. This is a much better option then sending it to the city dump!

MOBILE SHREDDING
We will come to your location with our mobile shredding truck and shred your documents on site.

ON SITE DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION
Bring us any documents you need shredded or otherwise destroyed and will are not only willing to shred them in your presence but will also provide you with a certificate of destruction.

Plastic Recycling
Please inquire with us about our plastic recycling program. We take all forms of plastics and help the environment in the process!

Electronics Recycling
We will take or pickup any and all old electronics including, computers, printers, cell phones, monitors, servers and more. We pick do not charge to recycle these items.

Tin Recycling
Tin is a valuable metal that is used in the manufacture of a number or everyday items, including tin cans, solder and bronze items and pewter products. Tin recycling is an interesting process, and this article takes a brief look at some tin recycling facts that you may not be aware of.

• Tin cans were previously called ‘tinned’ cans, after the process of tinning foods.

• Tin cans are not made solely from tin. They are mostly made out of steel, with a thin coat of tin applied to solder the side seams together and to prevent the steel from rusting.

• Early tin cans were soldered with a tin-lead alloy, which can cause lead poisoning. This practice was soon stopped.

• Despite tin’s corrosion-resistant properties, acidic foods like fruit and vegetables are capable of corroding the tin layer in a can.

• Tin cans taken to a recycling plant are ‘detinned’ by dipping them in a caustic chemical solution known as sodium stannate, which dissolves the tin from the steel.

• The steel is then baled into squares and shipped off to steel mills to be melted down and made into other products.

• The tin is subjected to electrolysis, a process where electricity is used to attract the dissolved tin in the sodium stannate solution onto a metal plate in a bath. When enough tin has attached itself, it is then melted off the plate and cast into ingots. These ingots are 99.98% pure tin.

• The global tin recycling rate is estimated to be around 8%.

• The main form of tin reuse is in brass, bronze and solder alloys.

• Recycling tin cans saves 74% of the energy used to make them.

• Americans use 100 million tin cans every single day.

• Recycling 1 ton of tin saves approximately 1.5 tons of tin ore from having to be mined.

• Tin recycling saves an average of 2,600 kilowatt hours of energy per ton.

• One recycled tin can saves enough energy to run a television for up to three hours.

• Creative tin can recycling ideas in your home include pen and stationery holders, herb and seedling planters and ready-made metal sleeves for patching leaking pipes.

Aluminum Cans Recycling

• Aluminum takes 200-500 years to fully degrade in a landfill.
• Recycling aluminum takes 95% less energy than making aluminum from raw materials.
• Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours.
• There is no limit to the number of times aluminum cans be recycled.
• Recycled aluminum can be returned to store shelves in as little as 60 days.
• About 120,000 aluminum cans are recycled every minute nationwide.