Lautenbach adjusts operations in its northern region

Lautenbach Recycling is restructuring operations at its Northwest Recycling Kentucky Street facility in Bellingham, Washington.

The company, which is based about 60 miles north of Seattle in Mount Vernon, Washington, says it is expanding its recycling services through Whatcom and Skagit Counties, which are situated even farther north of Seattle.

According to Lautenbach, its metal recycling, metal dumpster and all recycling activities in the two counties will be located at its Lautenbach Recycling facility in Bellingham. The firm’s storage container rental, Job Shack and Steel Road Plate Rental services also will operate from that location but under its NW Recycling brand.

Torrey Lautenbach, director of operations, says the changes to its operations allow it to more effectively and efficiently manage incoming scrap material. The announced changes will take effect April 1, according to the company.

Lautenbach Recycling says customers still can bring their scrap metal to the 1515 Kentucky St. location, but the service now will be provided by Lautenbach Recycling rather than NW Recycling.

“We want NW Recycling to focus on our storage rental business and be more focused on these very popular items,” Torrey Lautenbach says.

The company adds, “Once we have segregated these very different businesses, we will rebrand NWR to a rental-only business for storage containers, job shacks and steel road plates.”

Lautenbach Recycling is part of Lautenbach Industries, a large family-owned recycling company with services that include materials transportation, drop box rentals, demolition, recycling audits, self-haul recycling and green waste solutions.

The company operates a food depackaging machine that separates packaged food waste from recyclable and nonrecyclable packaging materials to maximize the amount of material diverted from landfills. In addition, Lautenbach says it partners with local and national businesses to support efforts to repurpose waste byproducts to maximize reuse or recycling efforts in the region.