Our Planet Recycling S F

What Our Planet Recycling S F does

Our Planet Recycling S.F. is a privately held, family-owned waste management and resource recovery company headquartered at 445 Bayshore Boulevard in San Francisco. Founded in 2012 as a small family venture, the company has grown into the largest recycling center in the Bay Area and has received acknowledgement from CalRecycle as the most efficient recycling facility in California. The company serves individual consumers across the San Francisco Bay Area who seek to redeem California Redemption Value (CRV) on eligible beverage containers including wine, liquor, beer, soft drinks, juices, and water.

Name

Our Planet Recycling S F

Legal name

Our Planet Recycling S.F.

Website

https://ourplanetsf.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Our Planet Recycling S.F. is a privately held San Francisco recycling hub that processes California Redemption Value (CRV) beverage containers for individual consumers, operating a main facility and 21 BOTTLEBANK drop-off locations across the city.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Waste Management and Recycling Services

NAICS

Materials Recovery Facilities (562920), Waste Collection (56211), Solid Waste Collection (562111)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Deposit Return System (DRS) / Bottle Bill Counting & Processing Centers (BPALADAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Packaging Recovery & Closed-Loop Programs (Take-Back, Deposit-Return, EPR Support) (IMALAMAF), Recycling Transfer & Consolidation (Single-Stream, Dual-Stream, Source-Separated) (EUAIABAC)

Keywords

• Beverage container recycling
• CRV redemption services
• Recycling drop-off centers
• Automated bag drop recycling
• Waste management services

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. CRV Redemption Processing: The company processes California Redemption Value (CRV) beverage containers, paying consumers the state-mandated refund while earning processing fees from CalRecycle for collected recyclable materials.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Our Planet Recycling S.F. operates a beverage container recycling center at 445 Bayshore Boulevard in San Francisco, processing California Redemption Value (CRV) containers and paying consumers the state-mandated refund. The company runs the BOTTLEBANK drop-off program with 21 locations across San Francisco and operates the city's first automated bag drop location, providing convenient recycling redemption for eligible beverage containers including wine, liquor, beer, soft drinks, juices, and water.

Product overview

Our Planet Recycling S.F. is San Francisco's leading recycling hub for beverage containers and the final recycling hub in the city. The company operates a core beverage container recycling and CRV redemption service, supported by its BOTTLEBANK program — a network of 21 drop-off locations that allow residents to redeem eligible containers. The company also pioneered the first automated bag drop location in San Francisco, representing their most technologically advanced service offering. Together, these services form an integrated recycling ecosystem designed to serve the San Francisco community.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• BOTTLEBANK: CRV redemption pilot program launched in 2021, a groundbreaking innovation on San Francisco's recycling landscape providing drop-off sites for beverage container recycling.

Products and services

• BOTTLEBANK A CRV (California Redemption Value) redemption drop-off program that enables San Francisco residents to drop off eligible beverage containers at 21 locations across the city for recycling and refund processing.
• CRV Redemption Processing Core beverage container recycling service operating at the main headquarters facility at 445 Bayshore Boulevard, San Francisco, where consumers bring eligible CRV containers (wine, liquor, beer, soft drinks, juices, water) and receive state-mandated refunds. Open Monday-Saturday 8:00am-4:30pm.
• Automated Bag Drop Recycling The first automated bag drop system in San Francisco for CRV redemption processing, using California-customized technology to enable more efficient drop-off of beverage containers compared to traditional staffed counters.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Others

• Schnitzer Steel Industries: Schnitzer Steel is a major West Coast metals recycler and downstream buyer of aluminum scrap — a key material stream flowing through OPR's redemption centers. Comparable as an adjacent downstream participant in the recycling value chain.

Emerging players

• EnviroGroup: EnviroGroup develops and deploys automated recycling and reverse-vending technology, including automated bag drop and RVM systems comparable to OPR's proprietary platform. It is an emerging technology peer that could either compete with or supply OPR's automation roadmap.

Regional players

• GreenWaste Recovery: GreenWaste Recovery operates material recovery facilities (MRFs) and recycling services across the Bay Area and greater California. It is comparable as a regional recycling infrastructure operator with overlapping customer base and feedstock streams.
• Recology: Recology is San Francisco's primary residential and commercial waste hauler, locally headquartered and deeply embedded in Bay Area recycling infrastructure. It competes with and complements OPR — handling curbside collection while OPR handles CRV drop-off — making it the most regionally comparable operator.

Broad incumbents

• TOMRA Systems: TOMRA is the global leader in reverse vending machines (RVMs) used in deposit-return systems worldwide. It is the technology incumbent that OPR's automated bag drop system competes with or could partner with; TOMRA's RVMs are deployed across DRS jurisdictions globally.
• Republic Services: Republic Services is the second-largest US solid waste and recycling hauler. It operates recycling infrastructure at national scale and represents both a potential downstream buyer of OPR's sorted recyclables and a competitive threat if it expands CRV/drop-off services.
• Waste Management Inc. WM is the largest US waste and recycling services provider. While not a CRV specialist, it competes with OPR for downstream recycling feedstock (aluminum, PET, glass) and represents the kind of well-capitalized incumbent that could enter or disrupt OPR's local market.

Direct peers

• California Redemption and Recycling: California Redemption and Recycling operates CRV buyback and recycling centers in California under the same CalRecycle framework. Direct business model overlap with OPR — consumer drop-off, CRV processing fees, and state-regulated pricing.
• RePlanet: RePlanet operates CRV redemption recycling centers across California — the most directly comparable business model to Our Planet Recycling. Both process beverage containers for CRV redemption under CalRecycle oversight and compete for the same consumer traffic.
• Caglia Recycling: Caglia Recycling runs CRV buyback and recycling centers in California, mirroring OPR's core offering. Same regulatory framework (CalRecycle), same consumer-facing drop-off model, and same revenue mix of transaction-based redemption fees.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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