Recycle America Alliance Announces New Service

Recycle America Alliance, L.L.C. has announced a new service affiliate to enhance its delivery of electronics recycling services in the southeastern United States.  

Quicksilver Recycling Services, based in Tampa, Fla., will provide de-manufacturing services for materials collected or managed by Recycle America Alliance under its eCycling service in Alabama, Florida and Georgia. Both parties will work together on marketing commodities to end markets.

"This is another important milestone in our effort to sustainably build America’s leading national infrastructure for electronics recycling services," said Kevin McCarthy, director of Electronics Recycling for Waste Management, Inc., majority owner of Recycle America Alliance. “Our association with Quicksilver combines a highly regarded local entrepreneur with Recycle America Alliance’s national reach and capabilities.”

“We are excited about this joint effort with Recycle America Alliance to build quality infrastructure for e-waste recycling in Florida,” remarked Mike Flynn, vice president with Quicksilver Recycling Services.  “We are proud to be part of this national alliance and its commitment to increase the nation’s electronics recycling capabilities.”

Recycle America Alliance’s eCyclings service is an innovative, customized approach to recycling discarded electronics, computers, televisions, communications equipment, and other related waste streams.  Local and state governments, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), commercial businesses and nonprofits can utilize a national network of drop-off centers, collection depots and regional processing centers operated by Waste Management and affiliated companies.

Quicksilver Recycling Services operates a comprehensive de-manufacturing facility for end-of-life electronics and surplus electronics equipment. The company was incorporated in 1998.

Recycle America Alliance’s eCyclingsm service has operations in more than 20 states. Recycle America Alliance has approximately 3,300 employees; handles more than 8 million tons of commodities per year; and operates 80 recycling plants. It offers marketing services for more than 190 locations in the U.S. and Canada. 

In addition, RAA operates seven container processing facilities, one plastics recycling facility, and four electronics recycling facilities.  Recycle America Alliance processes electronics collected at more than 65 recycling or disposal facilities nationwide.  It has four processing facilities in Phoenix, Houston, Minneapolis and Kernersville, N.C. 

It operates a nonferrous scrap metal facility in Long Branch, N.J., and has service contracts with E-Recycling of Southern California, in Paramount and ElectroniCycle in Gardner, MA.