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Greene Recycling provides cardboard recycling in Illinois for retailers, grocers, distribution centers, and restaurants. Our Illinois routes run today in nine Metro East cities, across the Mississippi River from Saint Louis. If your business sits in Madison, Saint Clair, or Monroe County, our truck is likely already in your area.
We’ve hauled cardboard since 1995. Our customers stay because pickups happen on schedule and they can reach a real person when plans change.
In the northern Metro East, our routes cover Alton, Edwardsville, Glen Carbon, and Granite City. Farther south, we pick up in Collinsville, Fairview Heights, Swansea, and Belleville, then continue to Waterloo. These stops sit close to I-55, I-64, I-255, and I-270, which keeps the route efficient.
Elsewhere in the state? You still get cardboard recycling in Illinois. Greene Recycling services businesses anywhere in Illinois, including Chicago, Springfield, and Peoria, and in all 50 states. Call 512-630-5108 and we’ll plan pickups for you.
Illinois accounts have access to our full service list:
Not sure which setup fits? Most Illinois stores with steady volume do best with a baler and scheduled bale pickup. Sites that handle large amounts of loose cardboard, like busy warehouses, often use a roll-off or a 40-yard compactor instead. We’ll look at your space and your volume, then recommend the setup that costs the least to run.
Read more about bale pickup, baler service, and roll-offs.
Your cardboard is worth something once it’s baled. As a recycling broker, Greene Recycling sells your bales into the recycling market and passes value back to you. The more bales we pick up, the higher the rebate we can extend. Read about our recycling rebates.
Plenty of Metro East stores still pay to haul loose boxes. Baling them and scheduling a pickup turns that cost into a return. That’s the plain case for cardboard recycling in Illinois through a broker.
We serve single stores in Waterloo and chains with several locations from Alton to Belleville. National brands like Walgreens and Crate & Barrel work with Greene Recycling because our routes are steady and our team responds. Whether you need cardboard recycling in Illinois at one address or many, you get one team that knows your account.
We support retail and chain stores, grocery and convenience stores, warehouses and distribution centers, restaurants, and manufacturers.
Southern Illinois moves a lot of freight, and the Metro East is home to big warehouses and distribution centers along the interstates. Much of what they handle ships in corrugated boxes. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lists corrugated boxes among the most recycled packaging materials in the country. Recycled cardboard returns to mills and becomes new boxes.
Ongoing cardboard recycling in Illinois also gives managers clear numbers for sustainability reports. You can count bales, and every bale stays out of a landfill.
Many businesses in the Saint Louis region run stores in both Illinois and Missouri. We run routes on both sides of the river, so a chain with stores in Fairview Heights and Saint Charles can use one hauler and one point of contact. That keeps cardboard recycling in Illinois simple for regional managers who don’t want to juggle vendors.
When volume spikes, switch to will-call or add a pickup. We’ll adjust.
First, we talk through your locations, baler, and bale volume. Second, we set your route and schedule. Third, the truck arrives and your rebates start. Adding stores later takes one call. That’s how cardboard recycling in Illinois with Greene Recycling begins. See our FAQ for more answers.
Illinois managers tend to ask the same few questions. Will the truck come on schedule? Yes, and if something changes, we call ahead. Do I need a baler to start? No, but baled cardboard costs less to haul and earns a better rebate, and we offer baler service to keep yours working. Can you cover my stores outside the Metro East? Yes. We service businesses anywhere in the state, and we run routes in nearby Missouri too. Many customers use one company, one contact, and one rebate program for all of their locations.
Tell us where your Illinois locations are, about how many bales you produce, and how often you want pickups. We’ll build the route. Request a quote online or call 512-630-5108 to reach our team. Locations in other states? Visit our Areas Served page.
Straight answers about service, schedules, and rebates.
Our routes run today in Alton, Edwardsville, Glen Carbon, Granite City, Collinsville, Fairview Heights, Swansea, Belleville, and Waterloo.
Yes. Chicago isn’t on our current route list, but we service businesses anywhere in Illinois and will set up pickups for your locations.
Yes. We also run routes in the Missouri side of the Saint Louis area, so one team can handle your stores in both states.
Yes. As a recycling broker, the more bales we pick up, the higher the rebate we can extend.