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Recycling Plants in Polk County, Florida

Polk County in Florida offers a variety of public and private recycling businesses. Not only does recycling support the economy by creating jobs for many people, but it also conserves landfill space. Recycling helps to reduce the need for natural resources and reduces pollution. Making products from recycled material uses less energy than making those same products out of virgin materials.

  1. Florida Refuse, Lakeland, FL

    • Florida Refuse serves the recycling needs of various businesses, schools, and neighborhoods in Polk County. They offer residential curbside recycling pickup. Florida Refuse sorts through all recycled material, so residential customers can throw all of their recyclable papers, plastics, cans and bottles into one bin.

    Allied Scrap Processors, Inc, Lakeland, FL

    • This company recycles scrap metal. They accept materials such as tin, cast iron, steel and scrap automobiles. Allied Scrap Processors offers scrap metal pickup at your location, or load it yourself into a pickup truck and they will unload it for you at their location using their hydraulic equipment.

    Viking Recycling, Lake Wales, FL

    • A scrap-metal recycler, Viking Recycling will buy your recyclable scrap metal including aluminum, brass, copper, lead, and steel. You can deliver the scrap metal to their site, or they can come and pick it up from your location.

    Pallet Recycle, Lakeland, FL

    • Pallet Recycle provides wooden pallets to businesses, but also recycles old, worn out pallets into new useful materials. Old pallets are ground up and used for mulch, while the nails from the pallets are recovered and sent to a scrap metal recycling facility.

    Independence Recycling, Lakeland, FL

    • A large-scale recycler of concrete and asphalt materials, Independence Recycling crushes and recycles about three million tons of this material every year. These waste materials are mixed into new concrete and asphalt for buildings and roads.

    North Central Landfill, Winter Haven, FL

    • This household waste recycling center is available to residents of Polk County to drop off their recyclables. They collect glass, paper, cardboard, and plastics that are labeled with numbers one through six.

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