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Our Fort Myers Materials Recovery Facility

Balcones, then operating as SMR, became the operator of the Lee County Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in October of 2022. With a processing capacity of 30 tons-per-hour, the recycling facility processes 7 to 8K tons of residential single-stream each month and employs approximately 100 workers. Our operations serve the approximately 825K residents of Lee County as well as local businesses.

Fort Myers Section 2

Recycling

Recycling glass bottles Recycling
Paper (includes office paper, newspaper, and card stock)
Cardboard
Plastic bottles and containers
Aluminum cans
Tin containers
Glass bottles and jars

We make recycling work. We ensure your end-of-use products are collected, sorted, processed and put back into supply chains— extending their value and use. Our Lee County facility provides sortation, processing and brokerage services.

Turn your food waste into valuable resources Organics
Food scraps

Our innovative suite of products and services transform waste into resources helping homeowners, building owners, and municipalities achieve their waste reduction goals. Contact us to learn more and see how we can help keep your organics out of landfills.

Solutions to keep your apparel and soft goods out of landfills Textiles
Apparel
Soft goods

Circular Services offers municipalities and residential customers convenient collection of used textiles at their doorstep to capture clothing otherwise headed to landfill. Outdated systems such as drop-off collection bins only capture 15% of textiles. We partner with municipalities to offer residents a system solution aligned with the curbside collection of other household recyclables. Contact us to learn more and see how we can help keep your textiles out of landfills.

Curbside pickup solutions to keep your electronic waste out of landfill Electronics
Computers
Phones
Tablets
Monitors
Televisions
Cables

Circular Services offers residential customers convenient collection at their doorstep to capture electronics otherwise headed to landfill. We partner with municipalities to offer consumers a service aligned with the collection of other household recyclables. Contact us to learn more and see how we can help keep your consumer electronics out of landfills.

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Build & Operate

We build and operate leading Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs) that use state-of-the-art technologies to keep valuable materials (paper, metals, glass, plastics, organics, textiles, electronics) out of landfill, reducing the costs and environmental impact of disposal.

Process & Broker

We sort and bale commodities for re-use in a variety of manufacturing supply chains. We work with municipalities to share in the sale of valuable commodities.

Educate & Advise

We work with municipalities, schools and businesses to design educational programs around recycling, zero waste and the circular economy.

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Collect & Process

We collect and process recyclables, organics, textiles and electronics directly from your property. We service office buildings, multi-family homes, hospitality, events, industrial facilities and retail locations. We provide on-site carts, balers, gaylords and more.

Shred Documents

Securely On and off-site options to collect and securely destroy electronics and data-containing media.

Educate & Advise

Build custom recycling programs to eliminate waste, achieve sustainability goals and reduce disposal costs. This includes waste assessments and material audits, zero-waste program designs, testing materials through our facilities and educating facility managers about recycling.

Recovering the material. Giving it a new life. Putting it back into circulation. Starting again.

Recycled materials play an important role in the circular economy, enabling manufacturers to use recycled plastic, glass and metal in lieu of virgin materials. Separated recyclables available for sale include:

  • Cardboard (OCC)
  • Paper (various grades including MXP, SOP, CBS and SWL)
  • Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET #1)
  • High Density Polyethylene-Natural (HDPE #2)
  • High Density Polyethylene-Color (HDPE #2)
  • Polypropylene (PP #5)
  • Aluminum (UBC, including Class III)
  • Tin
  • Glass
Array

Learn about the Circular Economy

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Ready to reduce waste and put more valuable materials back into your supply chain?