US Recycling

What US Recycling does

US Recycling is a private, for-profit company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Columbia, United States, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. The company's stated business is purchasing unused toner cartridges, ink, and other printing supplies, operating under the usrecycleink.com domain. Functionally, the company appears to act as a buy-side intermediary in the secondary market for printing consumables, acquiring excess or unused stock from businesses holding surplus inventory for resale or recycling.

Substantive operational, financial, and strategic information is not available in the source data. No product catalog, service descriptions, pricing model, customer information, technology stack, management team, or revenue figures are disclosed in the provided materials. An alternate domain referenced in supplementary inputs (uslaserinc.com) is blocked by Cloudflare robot verification, preventing additional data extraction. No funding rounds, partnerships, awards, patents, certifications, integrations, or AI capabilities are documented. The input profile contains only baseline firmographic descriptors and a short functional tagline.

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Name

US Recycling

Website

https://usrecycleink.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

US Recycling is a private US company founded in 2000 that buys unused toner cartridges, ink, and other printing supplies for resale from businesses holding excess inventory, operating from Columbia with 11-50 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Printer Supplies Recycling

NAICS

Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing (339940)

SIC

Wholesale-Professional & Commercial Equipment & Supplies (5040)

akta.pro primary industry

Consumer Electronics Recycling (TVs, AV, Small Electronics) (BPALAIAH)

Keywords

• Printer cartridge recycling
• Ink cartridge buyback
• Toner recycling services
• Printing supplies resale
• Empty cartridge collection

Headquarters

HQ city

Columbia

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel

Core offering

US Recycling buys unused toner cartridges, ink, and other printing supplies from businesses and consumers. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Columbia, United States, the company operates a buyback and recycling model focused on surplus and unused printing consumables.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Unused Printer Supplies Buyback

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• HP: HP is the dominant OEM in printers and cartridges and operates HP Planet Partners, an industry-leading cartridge return and remanufacturing program. As the largest first-party recycler in this space, it sets competitive benchmarks and absorbs a material share of recovery volume that would otherwise flow to independents like US Recycling.
• Greentec: Greentec is a national e-waste and IT asset disposition provider that also handles printer and cartridge recycling. It overlaps with US Recycling at the consumer-electronics recycling level while operating at meaningfully larger scale across multiple electronic waste streams.
• All Green Electronics Recycling: All Green is a multi-site electronics recycler covering computers, peripherals, and related printing consumables. It competes with US Recycling for the cartridge and printer-supply component of corporate electronics disposition contracts.
• Quill (Staples subsidiary): Quill is a large office-supply distributor selling ink, toner, and other consumables to businesses. While primarily a forward distributor rather than a buyback operation, it competes for the same end-customer spend on printing supplies and increasingly offers recycling-related services.
• Canon: Canon is a leading printer and cartridge OEM with its own cartridge return and recycling programs. As a broad incumbent in the same underlying consumables ecosystem, it is a structural competitor for both end customers and recovery supply.

Direct peers

• LD Products: LD Products is a major online retailer and remanufacturer of ink and toner cartridges, selling both new and compatible supplies to consumers and businesses. It overlaps directly with US Recycling's core activity of sourcing and redistributing ink and toner consumables.
• 123Inkjets: 123Inkjets is an online retailer specializing in compatible and remanufactured ink and toner cartridges. It competes for the same end customers seeking value-priced printing supplies and operates in the same cartridge redistribution niche.
• ClickInks: ClickInks sells compatible, remanufactured, and OEM printer supplies online, sourcing cartridges through similar channels to US Recycling. The business model and target customer base are closely aligned.
• CompAndSave: CompAndSave is an online retailer of compatible ink and toner cartridges serving both consumer and small-business buyers. It competes in the same value-priced, third-party supply category central to US Recycling's offering.
• 4 Star Printing Supplies: 4 Star Printing Supplies distributes ink, toner, and printer consumables to resellers and end users. Its distribution focus on printing supplies places it in close operational proximity to US Recycling's buyback-and-redistribute model.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/usrecycleink
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/us-recycling

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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