Wilco Recycling

Wilco Recycling, a greater Austin single stream recycling company, is focused on one simple goal, helping customers find and utilize the best methods to recycle their waste stream and reduce their impact on the environment.Wilco, a single stream recycling company near Austin, Texas, is the latest addition to a family of full service recycling and solid waste hauling companies that have been serving Central Texas since 1981. We do not own a landfill and our facility was built specifically to divert as many valuable resources as possible from that destination.

Wilco serves the following counties for paper recycling, plastics recycling, and aluminum recycling in Williamson County, Bell County, Bastrop County, Milam County and Travis County. Wilco can help meet the requirements of the Austin Universal Recycling Ordinance or Austin URO serving the following cities including, but not limited to Austin, Round Rock, Georgetown, Leander, Cedar Park, Hutto, Pflugerville, Manor, Bastrop, Taylor, Killeen, Temple, Harker Heights, Copperas Cove and Belton in Central Texas.Wilco provides comprehensive single stream recycling programs for municipal, residential, commercial, industrial and manufacturing entities for paper, plastics and aluminum recycling that is in compliance with the Austin URO. Contact us today for an evaluation and custom collection program.

Wilco Recycling is located on 16 acres at 9801 Chandler Road in Taylor Texas. With convenient access to State Highway 130 and Highway 79 we are a strategically positioned recycling center Taylor TX that provides Residential and Commercial Single Stream, high grade paper, cardboard and plastic recycling services to the residents, businesses and municipalities of Williamson, Travis, Bell, Milam, Lee and Bastrop counties.recycling center taylor txOur processing equipment (designed and installed by CP Manufacturing) is currently housed in a 40,000 square foot building that is expandable to 70,000 square feet as growth dictates. Currently staffed with 25 full time employees, our recycling Center Taylor TX is capable of processing 6,000 tons per month of single stream recyclable materials.The system features metering technology, patented cardboard and multiple fiber (paper) disk screens, glass and container removal systems, an optical sorter (PET plastic), magnetic separator (ferrous metals) and eddy current (aluminum) with automated silo storage all designed to feed a two-ram baler. The design of this system has the potential processing capacity to expand to 30 tons per hour.

Single Stream Recycling Programs, Greater Austin Area

Single Stream Recycling refers to a collection system in which all paper fibers, plastics, metals and other containers are co-mingled or mixed together in a collection container and then transported to a processing facility by truck where the commodities are separated.  This eliminates the need for the customer to separate materials prior to being picked up. The advantages of Single Stream Recycling are:

• No Sorting
• Convenience
• Greater participation
• Less waste being sent to the landfills
• Lower collection costs

Industrial and Manufacturing operations have unique recycling needs that lend themselves to customized solutions. While Single Stream recycling could be the answer, most often the quantity and quality of the materials being generated have greater value and environmental benefits being collected separately.Let us conduct a waste audit of your operations and evaluate what materials can be economically diverted from the landfill. balerWe have a full range of equipment and collection containers to accommodate every situation. From compactors to balers to dumpsters to bins let our staff of recycling professionals work with you to find the most appropriate and cost effective method of collecting these valuable resources.

The City Of Austin URO

As our customer we will be your partner in developing and implementing a comprehensive recycling program and provide you with the necessary documentation on your monthly recycling activities to keep your organization in compliance with the Austin URO.

In addition, Wilco Recycling will:

• Assist you with interpreting and completing the Annual Diversion Plan
• Work with you to develop education and training materials for your staff
• Provide the recycling data needed to fulfill the reporting requirements, chart your program’s success and promote your organization’s environmental efforts

The City of Austin URO (Universal Recycling Ordinance) supports Austin’s Zero Waste goal by requiring affected property owners to ensure that tenants and employees have access to convenient recycling.  By Oct. 1, 2017, all properties will be required to provide recycling services to their tenants and employees. Click to here to determine when your property is affected.

Benefits of Recycling

• Reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators
• Conserves natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals
• Prevents pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials
• Saves energy
• Reduces greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change
• Helps sustain the environment for future generations
• Helps create jobs in the recycling and manufacturing industries in the United States.

These products are not novelty items but manufactured goods that each of us use every day such as:

• clothing
• carpeting
• toilet tissue and paper towels
• cardboard boxes
• aluminum cans
• automobile parts
• newspapers
• writing papers
• glass bottles
• insulation
• plastic laundry detergent bottles
• steel cans