Constant Recycling

What Constant Recycling does

Constant Recycling is a private US industrial plastics recycler headquartered in Independence, Ohio, that buys and resells industrial scrap plastics and provides full-service recycling management to manufacturing customers. The company operates seven processing and warehousing facilities across the US — Easton PA, Charlotte NC, Dallas TX, Houston TX, Los Angeles CA, Chicago IL, and Cleveland OH — positioned to handle material from any US location. Its product surface spans four lines: (1) buy/sell of industrial scrap plastics (ABS, EPS, HDSF, LD/nylon, POM Acetal, PPCO, and others) sourced from purges, parts, films, trims, floor sweeps, pellets, resins, and flexible packaging, with a stated minimum of semi-truck-load quantities; (2) full-service recycling solutions with a single point of contact managing all waste streams across all customer locations, including dropped trailers, timely pickups, certified scale tickets, and multi-location reporting; (3) rework and processing services — tolling, grinding, shredding, pelletizing, pulverizing, granulating, and aspiration — that convert scrap into usable recycled forms; and (4) specialized capabilities in hard-to-recycle plastics including laminated and co-extruded films, engineering-grade plastics, and rigid PVC, plus equipment financing and zero-landfill/waste-to-energy programs.

Name

Constant Recycling

Legal name

Constant Recycling

Website

https://constantrecycling.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Constant Recycling is a private US industrial plastics recycler that buys and resells scrap plastics from manufacturers and provides multi-location recycling management, with seven processing facilities nationwide and specialization in hard-to-recycle plastics.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Plastic Recycling Services

NAICS

Materials Recovery Facilities (562920), Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers (42393)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Mechanical Plastics Recycling (Wash/Grind/Flake/Pellet) (IMANAMAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Engineering Plastics Recycling (ABS, PC, PA, POM, PMMA) (EUAIAKAI), Rigid Plastics Recycling (HDPE/PP, Injection/Blow Molded) (EUAIAKAF), Film & Flexible Plastics Recycling (LDPE/LLDPE, Multilayer) (EUAIAKAE), Recycled Resin Trading & Distribution (PCR/PIR Commodity Markets) (EUAIAKAK), Plastic Recycling Equipment & Technology Providers (Sorting, Washing, Extrusion) (EUAIAKAM)

Keywords

• Plastic recycling services
• Scrap plastic purchasing
• PVC rigid recycling
• Industrial recycling solutions
• Plastic shredding tolling

Headquarters

HQ city

Independence

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Plastic Materials Trading: Buy and sell numerous types of cardboard and plastic materials including ABS, EPS, HDSF, LD/nylon, POM Acetal, PPCO, and many others. Revenue generated from buying industrial scrap plastics at competitive rates and reselling processed materials.
2. Recycling Services: Full service recycling solutions with single point of contact managing all waste from all locations. Services include logistics handling, dropped trailers on site, timely pickups, certified scale tickets, and spreadsheet documentation.
3. Equipment and Financing: Equipment financing solutions providing capital investment for recycling equipment with customized financing to meet investment return objectives.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Constant Recycling purchases industrial scrap plastics directly from manufacturers in semi-truck load quantities (purges, parts, films, trims, floor sweeps, pellets, resins, flexible packaging) and resells recycled plastic materials such as ABS, EPS, HDSF, LD/nylon, POM Acetal, and PPCO. The company complements this trading activity with a single-point-of-contact full-service recycling program, rework/tolling services (grinding, shredding, pelletizing, pulverizing, granulating, aspiration), equipment financing solutions, and zero landfill/waste-to-energy options, with a particular specialization in difficult-to-recycle plastics including laminated films, co-extruded films, engineering grade plastics, and PVC rigid materials.

Product overview

Constant Recycling operates as a plastics and cardboard recycling company offering a comprehensive suite of services centered around buying and selling industrial scrap plastics. The core offering combines industrial scrap plastic purchasing with resale of recycled materials (ABS, EPS, HDSF, LD/nylon, POM Acetal, PPCO, and others), supported by nationwide warehouse and processing facilities. Additional modules include rework services (grinding, shredding, pelletizing, tolling, pulverizing), equipment financing solutions, training and consulting, and zero landfill programs. The company differentiates through geographic coverage with facilities in 7 major US metropolitan areas (Easton PA, Charlotte NC, Dallas TX, Houston TX, L.A. CA, Chicago IL, Cleveland OH) and specialized expertise in difficult-to-recycle plastics including PVC rigid materials and laminated films.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Industrial Scrap Plastic Purchasing

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduce landfill costs through effective plastic recycling and diversion programs
• +2 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Avangard Innovative: National plastics recycling specialist with a focus on post-consumer resin recovery and supply-chain ESG programs. Comparable as an emerging specialist competing for the same hard-to-recycle streams.

Direct peers

• MBA Polymers: Global recycler of engineering-grade plastics (ABS, PC, PP, etc.) recovered from end-of-life vehicles and electronics. Closest functional peer given Constant Recycling's focus on engineering-grade plastic streams (ABS, PC, HIPS, POM).
• Plastics Recyclers Inc. Specialty mechanical recycler of post-industrial plastics into reusable pellets and regrind. Small-to-mid scale private operator closely analogous in business model to Constant Recycling.
• CarbonLite: Major PET recycler producing food-grade rPET for beverage brands. Operates large-scale mechanical recycling facilities with similar buy/process/sell model applied to a single resin stream.
• KW Plastics: Largest post-consumer HDPE recycler in North America; operates mechanical recycling plants producing PCR HDPE for blow molding. Directly comparable as a PCR plastics trader/recycler serving industrial buyers.
• Custom Polymers (Circular Polymers): Buys and reprocesses post-industrial and post-consumer plastic scrap into custom compounds and recycled resins. Same niche industrial scrap-buyer model with tolling/grinding/repelletizing services.
• Envision Plastics Industries (Biffa): Specializes in HDPE and PP recycling from post-consumer and post-industrial streams, with food-grade decontamination capability. Comparable as a mechanical recycler turning mixed scrap into specifications-grade pellets.
• Channeled Resources: Recycles and resells industrial plastic film, paper, and foil scrap into usable inputs. Direct overlap on laminated/co-extruded film recycling, a specialty explicitly highlighted by Constant Recycling.

Broad incumbents

• Republic Services: Large publicly traded US waste and recycling services operator with national hauling and MRF network. Overlaps with Constant Recycling on industrial plastics collection/recycling but as one of many streams at massive scale.
• Waste Management Inc. Largest North American waste services company with extensive recycling and organics infrastructure. Provides the broad-incumbent comparison for enterprise waste contracts Constant Recycling pursues.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ConstantRecycling
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/constant-recycling

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Constant Recycling