TLC work closely with mills to give our clients the best possible direct return for their recycled commodities.
We use transfers for trash, but we have a brokerage department and relationships with end markets to return the largest proceeds in the market.
- Scrap Steel/Metal
- Cardboard
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Recycling Facts
- In 1997, over 1.6 billion tree seedlings were planted in the United States, that's more than five new trees for each American.
- There are 747 million acres of forestland in the United States.
- About 1/3 of the U.S. is covered by forests.
- Ginkgo trees provided food for dinosaurs, and yet they can still be found in backyards today.
- The single oldest living thing on Earth is a tree, a 4,700 year old bristle cone pine tree in California. It was growing when the Egyptians built the pyramids.
- Sawdust and wood shavings, saved from manufacturing wood products, are recycled to help make paper grocery bags, corrugated boxes, and other paper products.
- Thanks to today's new technologies, close to 100% of a tree can be recycled with hardly any waste.
- More trees are grown through replanting and natural regeneration than are harvested in the U.S. each year.
- More than 5,000 different products are made from trees: houses, furniture, baseball bats, crutches, fences, garden mulch, books, newspapers, movie tickets, facial tissue, even clothing, carpeting and toothpaste.
- Paper accounts for 40% of all municipal waste.
- Recycled paper means less trash, lower taxes, and other disposal costs.
- For every ton of paper that is recycled, 17 trees are saved from being cut down for "new" paper.
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