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Yes, we pick up in Kentucky. Tell us where your locations are and we’ll build a route around your schedule.
Kentucky builds cars, ships packages, and runs a busy retail sector, so cardboard is everywhere. Greene Recycling provides cardboard recycling in Kentucky for plants, distribution centers, stores, and restaurants.
We don’t run routes in Kentucky yet. We service businesses anywhere in the state and build a route for your stops when you sign up. Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois are all route states for us, and all three share a border with Kentucky.
Here’s how it works. You call or send a quote request with your Kentucky addresses and a rough idea of your bale volume. We design a route that covers those locations and set a pickup schedule that matches the volume. Your rebate program starts with the first pickup. New stores can be added whenever you open them, and you keep the same contact the whole time.
You don’t need perfect figures to get started. A rough bale count per location, the type of baler you use, and the hours your receiving dock is open are enough for us to sketch a plan. If some of your Kentucky sites don’t bale at all, we can look at roll-offs or compactors for those spots instead, so every store is covered under one account.
We can serve Louisville and Lexington, Bowling Green and Owensboro, Northern Kentucky cities like Covington and Florence, and western Kentucky around Paducah. Interstates 64, 65, 71, and 75 cross the state, and cardboard recycling in Kentucky can follow them to your locations.
Every account for cardboard recycling in Kentucky gets the same services we offer in all 50 states:
Read more about each option on our services page.
Cardboard has value, and we treat it that way. As a recycling broker, we market your bales and share the return with you. Volume drives the rebate: the more bales we pick up, the higher the rebate we can extend. Multi-store accounts often see the biggest difference, because every location adds to the total. Ask us how rebates would work for your cardboard recycling in Kentucky.
Kentucky is a major auto state, with assembly plants in Georgetown, Louisville, and Bowling Green and suppliers across the state. Louisville is a global air cargo hub, and Northern Kentucky has a large air cargo and distribution presence near the Cincinnati airport. Bourbon distilleries, retail, and grocery add more. Cardboard recycling in Kentucky covers all of it.
We work with retail and chain stores, grocery and convenience stores, warehouses and distribution centers, restaurants, and manufacturers.
Shipping and manufacturing create mountains of boxes. Cardboard recycling in Kentucky keeps them out of landfills and back in circulation. According to the EPA’s paper and paperboard data, corrugated boxes are recycled at a higher rate than most packaging, which means your bales have a real market waiting for them.
Kentucky accounts come in every size. A distribution center near the Louisville airport or the Northern Kentucky cargo hub can fill a 40-yard compactor quickly. An auto supplier in central Kentucky may run a heavy-duty baler around the clock. A grocery store in Paducah or Somerset may produce a few bales a week. We set up each location with the right equipment and the right pickup frequency, from weekly service to will-call. Multi-site companies get one account and one team for every Kentucky location, plus any sites they run in the neighboring states we already serve. Bourbon distilleries, which receive bottles, labels, and shipping cases by the pallet, are a good fit as well.
Greene Recycling started in 1995 hauling cardboard in Texas and Oklahoma. We’ve grown to more than 500 business locations, with routes in 13 states and service available in all 50. Walgreens and Crate & Barrel are among our clients. That track record matters when you’re setting up cardboard recycling in Kentucky, because you want a partner who has built routes from scratch before and knows how to keep them reliable.
Ready to get started? Send us your Kentucky locations, an estimate of how many bales you produce, and how often you’d like pickups. We’ll put together a route and a quote for cardboard recycling in Kentucky. Request a quote online or call 512-630-5108 to talk with our Georgetown, Texas team. Have locations in other states too? Check our Areas Served page.
Straight answers about service, schedules, and rebates.
Not yet. We service businesses anywhere in Kentucky and build a route for your locations when you sign up. Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois, all route states for us, border Kentucky.
Louisville, Lexington, Bowling Green, Owensboro, Covington, Florence, Paducah, Elizabethtown, and the rest of the state.
Send us your addresses and bale volume. We build a route, confirm your schedule, and begin pickups.
Yes. We’re a recycling broker, so the more bales we pick up, the higher the rebate we can extend.