Des Plaines, Illinois
Commercial Recycling in Des Plaines, IL
Des Plaines runs from the eastern edge of O'Hare south through the Oakton industrial corridor. Light manufacturing, printing, packaging, and a long tail of freight forwarders feeding ORD's air cargo terminals fill the map. CRI runs daily routes into it from our Addison facility, about ten miles southwest.
Built for the O'Hare East Side
Des Plaines has two distinct industrial faces. The Oakton Street corridor running east from Mannheim is classic light industrial: printing, packaging, contract assembly, electrical equipment, and a tier of corporate offices anchored by long-tenant insurance and consumer brands. Further south, along River Road and Touhy, freight forwarders and customs operations sit a short drive from O'Hare's eastern cargo gates.
The waste profile splits accordingly. Office and corporate tenants generate confidential paper for shredding, mixed paper, and steady OCC from supply deliveries. The Oakton industrial corridor produces OCC, plastic film, die-cut packaging waste, and light metal scrap. The freight corridor runs crushed corrugated, dunnage, customs-rejected packaging, and constant pallet turnover.
CRI handles all of it on one agreement, with state-certified scales on every load.
Des Plaines Service Details
Services Available in Des Plaines, IL
Cardboard Recycling
OCC from offices, light industrial, freight
Paper Shredding
Confidential destruction, Certificates of Destruction
Paper Recycling
Office paper, multiple grades, mill-direct
Plastic Recycling
Film, die-cut scrap, rigid plastics
Pallet Recycling
Buy, repair, return programs
Metal Recycling
Ferrous and non-ferrous, light manufacturing scrap
Nearby Service Areas
Des Plaines Recycling, Common Questions
How fast can CRI get to Des Plaines?
Des Plaines is only about 10 miles from our Addison facility, so we run daily routes into the Oakton corridor and keep same-day availability for urgent pickups. That proximity is why a freight forwarder near the O'Hare cargo gates can get an off-cycle stop without a long wait.
We are a corporate office that also gets steady OCC. Can CRI cover confidential paper and recycling together?
Yes. Des Plaines has two faces, corporate and industrial, so we run confidential shredding with Certificates of Destruction and IT decommissioning for the office tenants, then handle OCC, mixed paper, film, die-cut scrap, pallets, and light metal for the Oakton industrial and freight corridors, all on one agreement.
Can you handle the pallet and dunnage turnover from the freight corridor?
The River Road and Touhy freight operations run constant pallet turnover, crushed corrugated, and customs-rejected packaging, and that is exactly the volume our pallet buy-repair-return and high-volume OCC programs are built for. Every load is weighed on state-certified scales so the rebate on it is verifiable.
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