ReConserve

What ReConserve does

ReConserve, Inc. is a privately held industrial recycler founded in 1935 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The company operates 18-19 processing plants across the United States through a network of 20 wholly-owned regional subsidiaries (ReConserve of Alabama, Arizona, California-Los Angeles/Ontario/Stockton, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, plus a Portland Depot). ReConserve provides sanitary, efficient removal and recycling of bakery, cereal, snack food, and related by-products to over 1,000 small and large food manufacturers, and it converts that waste into DBP® (Dried Bakery Product), a branded high-energy livestock feed ingredient sold to broiler, turkey, layer, swine, dairy, and beef cattle feed producers.

The company's core technology is a proprietary process that separates non-edible material from food waste, then mixes, grinds, and dries the remainder into DBP, which delivers up to 15% higher energy value than yellow corn and a True Metabolizable Energy value of 1790 CAL/LB per independent university trials. Continuous nutritional testing (protein, fat, fiber, moisture, ash) is conducted by independent laboratories. ReConserve installs custom-engineered bulk removal systems at each client facility, including Stationary Compactor Systems, All-Electric Elevated Bulk Systems (EBS), Self-contained Roll-off Compactors, and Mobile Packer/Front Loaders, designed to each client's waste volume, manufacturing process, and space constraints, with a positive seal around dock doors to eliminate employee exposure to outside elements.

ReConserve operates a dual revenue model. The Bakery Services division generates managed-service revenue from custom system installation, ongoing waste collection, Certificates of Destruction, and monthly reporting. The Feed Sales division generates product revenue from DBP sales domestically and for export via truck, container, barge, vessel, and rail. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is entirely direct and regional: Vice Presidents and Managers of Bakery Services cover South, North, West, Great Lakes, Upper Midwest, South Central, Eastern Midwest, and Lower Midwest regions, while Feed Sales VPs cover East, Midwest, West, and Southeast regions, led by named Senior VPs (Adam Cowan and Kevin Gyland) under President David Luskin and EVP Rida Hamed. A secondary product line of kiln dried oak and maple sawdust for bedding/absorbency is offered through ReConserve of Iowa and Minnesota.

Name

ReConserve

Legal name

ReConserve, Inc.

Website

https://reconserve.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1935

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ReConserve is a privately held industrial recycler operating 18-19 U.S. plants that collect bakery and food by-product waste from 1,000+ food manufacturers via custom-installed bulk removal systems, then converts the waste into DBP®, a branded high-energy livestock feed ingredient sold domestically and for export.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Food Waste Recycling Services

NAICS

Materials Recovery Facilities (562920), Waste Collection (5621), Dried and Dehydrated Food Manufacturing (311423)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953), Bakery Products (2050)

akta.pro primary industry

Reuse & Resale / Recommerce Operations (EUAIANAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Refurbishment, Remanufacturing & Recommerce Enablement (TLAIAHAC), Recyclables Transfer & Consolidation (Single/Source-Separated) (BPALABAD)

Keywords

• Food waste recycling
• Bakery waste recovery
• Livestock feed production
• Dried bakery product
• Food scrap removal

Headquarters

HQ city

Santa Monica

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices21 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Food Waste Removal Services: Provides sanitary, efficient removal and recycling services to food and feed manufacturing industries. Custom designed bulk removal systems are installed at client facilities for ongoing waste collection and processing.
2. DBP (Dried Bakery Product) Sales: Converts collected food waste into DBP brand dried bakery product, a high-energy livestock feed ingredient sold to broiler, turkey, layer, swine, dairy, and beef cattle feed producers. Product has greater nutrient value than corn and can be used as substitute for more expensive feed grains and fat.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

ReConserve provides sanitary, efficient removal and recycling services for food production industries, primarily collecting bakery, cereal grain, and snack food manufacturing byproducts and converting them into Dried Bakery Product (DBP®) livestock feed. The company custom-designs, installs, and services bulk waste removal systems at client facilities across the United States, operating a nationwide network of processing plants and a fleet of collection vehicles that integrate on-site waste removal with downstream feed manufacturing.

Product overview

ReConserve operates as a food waste recycling company offering a portfolio of waste removal services and products. The core offering consists of DBP® (Dried Bakery Product), a branded livestock feed ingredient made from reprocessed bakery and cereal grain by-products, which is sold to poultry, swine, dairy, and beef cattle feed producers. Supporting this is a food waste removal services division that provides custom-designed bulk removal systems including Stationary Compactor Systems, Elevated Bulk Systems (EBS), Self-contained Roll-off Compactors, and Mobile Packer/Front Loaders. The company also offers kiln dried sawdust products through specific regional facilities. These offerings are delivered through 19 processing plants located across the United States.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• DBP®: Dried Bakery Product - a high-energy, nutrient dense, highly palatable dried component for livestock feed with greater nutrient value than corn. Produced from bakery, cereal grain, snack foods, and related food by-products.

Products and services

• DBP® (Dried Bakery Product) A dried, nutrient-rich livestock feed ingredient manufactured by recycling bakery, cereal grain, and snack food manufacturing byproducts. Sold to feed producers and used as a high-energy feed component with approximately 15% higher energy value than corn.
• Food Waste Removal Services Sanitary and efficient removal of food manufacturing waste from bakery, cereal grain, and snack food production facilities, including custom-designed bulk removal systems installed and serviced at client sites.
• Kiln Dried Oak and Maple Sawdust Livestock bedding product made from kiln-dried oak and maple sawdust.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 15% higher energy value than yellow corn as determined by independent University trials
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Bunge Global: Global agribusiness and ingredient processor with significant feed ingredient and grain processing operations. Broad incumbent operating at much larger scale with overlapping exposure to feed ingredient customers and corn-substitute economics that govern DBP pricing.
• Tyson Foods: Vertically integrated protein producer with in-house rendering operations that produce feed ingredients from poultry and food processing by-products. Overlaps with ReConserve in feed ingredient output and shares large food-manufacturer customer relationships.
• JBS USA: Global protein and rendering operator that converts animal processing by-products into feed and fuel ingredients. Comparable in by-product-to-feed infrastructure, with much greater scale and vertical integration than ReConserve.
• Cargill: Largest privately held agribusiness with global animal nutrition and protein ingredient operations. Overlaps with ReConserve on the livestock feed customer side and could enter or expand food-waste-to-feed capabilities as a competitor or potential acquirer.

Emerging players

• Anaergia: Resource recovery company with food waste processing capabilities producing renewable energy and soil products from organic waste. Emerging player with adjacent but distinct technology focus versus ReConserve's thermal drying approach.

Direct peers

• Darling Ingredients: Largest US rendering company converting animal and food by-products into feed ingredients, fats, and fuels. Closely comparable to ReConserve in taking food-system waste streams and producing specification-controlled feed inputs, though focused on animal by-products rather than bakery/cereal.
• West Coast Reduction: Western US and Canadian rendering company producing tallow, meat and bone meal, and feed ingredients from food processing by-products. Closely comparable in waste-to-feed operations and customer base of food manufacturers and feed producers.
• Baker Commodities: Rendering and recycling company that converts food processing and animal by-products into tallow, proteins, and feed ingredients. Closely comparable legacy competitor to ReConserve in food-by-product collection and feed ingredient sales.
• Anamax Group: Operates multiple rendering and recycling plants across the Midwest converting food and agricultural by-products into animal feed ingredients. Direct competitor to ReConserve in food-by-product recycling and DBP-style feed ingredient production.
• Perdue AgriBusiness: Operates Perdue AgriRecycle and related grain/food by-product recovery programs, converting food manufacturing residuals into feed ingredients. Comparable business model to ReConserve's waste-to-feed positioning with a strong Northeast/Mid-Atlantic processing footprint.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries20 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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