Recycling Services Inc.

Located just south of I-55, RSI is well situated for servicing recycling needs in Chicago downtown, the greater-Chicago industrial market, and is a good location for suppliers to bring recyclables on their way to or from the city.

RSI develops, implements and services office paper recycling programs in the greater Chicago metropolitan area. Since 1987 the company has initiated hundreds of programs. RSI also collects pre and post consumer recovered fiber from a variety of generators. In addition to running a 40,000 square foot processing plant, RSI operates a transportation division with a fleet of 100 trailers; as well as a document shredding division. The company also operates Fiber Options, a paper brokerage division that markets both its own tonnage and tonnage from other Midwestern recycling companies; and Great Lakes Secondary Fibers, a division that services accounts involved in the graphic arts industry.

RSI services waste haulers, the general public, office buildings, industrial accounts and a variety of other commercial accounts. The company processing capability includes operation of two balers, the star screen, a roll cutting operation and a shredder/document destruction operation.

The company’s main corporate offices are located one block from the plant at 3301 W. 47th Place where the accounting, sales, traffic, and brokerage division operate.

The company has several areas of expertise. Its primary specialty is office paper recycling. The number of waste haulers, particularly in the downtown Chicago market, has dramatically decreased over the last few years. In terms of other paper stock dealers in the Chicago area, there are a few that handle limited amounts of office paper recycling, but none operating on the scale of RSI. Although the largest supplier group is focused on the downtown Chicago office area, RSI develops and services office paper recycling programs throughout Chicago and its Northern Illinois suburbs.

The company’s Fiber Options brokerage division also has a unique specialty. Besides marketing recovered fiber tonnage to paper mills throughout the US and for export, it has the distinction of being the only company in the country to offer paper grading training and identification workshops.

As the company has matured it has added both document destruction, roll cutting, and hard and soft cover book recycling. In 2001 a new packaging division was added. This division supplements paper recycling by supplying gaylord boxes, recycled dunnage, and specialty roll stock. For some customers the company also provides a limited amount of industrial plastic recycling, as well as aluminum, ferrous and non-ferrous metal recycling.