Container Services

Cycle Systems provides comprehensive recycling solutions for corporate, industrial, municipal and individual customers.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE        COVINGTON         HARRISONBURG/BROADWAY 

LYNCHBURG        MARTINSVILLE       PULASKI 

ROANOKE         SOUTH BOSTON          STUARTS DRAFT/WAYNESBORO 

Our ability to provide a variety of choices for the pick-up and hauling of recycled materials is the heart of our service policy.

Each of our regional recycling centers has the capability to service commercial, industrial and municipal generators of recyclable material with an array of roll-off containers, trailers and compactors.

Here is a closer look at the options we provide:

Roll-off Containers, Trailers and Cranes
20, 30, and 40 cubic open top yard containers
Brute 60 cubic yard containers

Compactors
Self-contained compactors
2 and 3 cubic yard compactors with containers

Trailers
Open top 40-foot scrap trailers
Open Top 40-foot vans
Closed van
Low-boy trailers

Cranes

Truck-mounted cranes
Caterpillar and Komotso hydraulic crane

Here’s a description of our services:

Scrap Processing

Got scrap?

Every day hundreds of truckloads of scrap metal – steel, aluminum, copper, brass and other ferrous and non-ferrous material – arrive at our facilities. We pay competitive prices for that that scrap so we can process it and sell it back to foundries, steel plants and others seeking high-quality metals to make new cars, appliances, building beams and other products.

Our efforts help to reduce demand for precious raw materials. Consider that every ton of recycled steel saves 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,000 of coal, and 40 pounds of limestone.

At our Roanoke facility, scrap is unloaded and moved with our fleet of hydraulic cranes. Light material is baled into finished products or compacted into shredable logs. The heavy material is cut to 3-foot and 5-foot pieces by giant hydraulic shears. Every day about four or five loads of scrap iron leaves our facilities destined to steel mills to be re-melted and made into new steel shapes. 

Our Roanoke facility has a separate 100,000-square-foot area to process non-ferrous materials such as aluminum, copper, brass and stainless steel. This material is visually inspected, sorted and either baled or boxed for consumers. The environmental benefits of our operation is clear: The energy consumption to make a ton of finished aluminum from scrap is 95% less than the energy need to produce the same ton from bauxite.

Meanwhile, scrap metal goes through a more dramatic process at our Lynchburg facility. Our heavy-duty shredder – powered by an environmentally friendly, biofuel-powered plant developed by our ARE Energy division – turns appliances, huge chunks of metal and whole automobiles into fist-sized chunks of high-quality metal at the rate of 60 tons per hour.

Every day, trucks from our customers, as well as our fleet of trucks and railcars, bring material to be processed. The loads are pre-inspected and then loaded onto a 96-inch-wide conveyor that feeds the shredder. The material is sent down conveyors where the non-metallic materials and non-ferrous materials are removed. Each working day up to 10 railcar loads of material leave the facility designated to steel re-melting plants.

Paper Recycling

Recycling paper has been a major component of our business from the very beginning of Cycle Systems.

Paper collected by municipalities, businesses and other customers is segregated and bailed. This material includes office paper, print stock, cardboard, newspaper and mixed paper.

Here’s a fact that keeps us going -- if Americans could recycle just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year, not to mention the untold energy and pollution required to produce virgin paper.

Community Recycling

Our Roanoke facility is a convenient way for the public to do its part to protect the environment. Open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week, our community recycling station collects newspaper, mixed paper, cardboard, office paper, tin and aluminum cans and plastics.

Proceeds from the sale of this material benefits an organization dedicated to ecological stewardship – Clean Valley Council.

Learn more about our community recycling program.

 

Automobiles

CSI Auto is a Cycle Systems division dedicated to sourcing, delivering and recycling metals from scrapped automobiles. With our new scrap shredder complex in Lynchburg, entire autos can easily be processed through this equipment into fist-size scrap iron, an ideal feed for steel furnaces.

CSI Auto is dedicated to adhering to expanded environmental laws and strict regulations related to scrapping automobiles.

Demolition Program - Industrial dismantling

Our demolition division dismantles aging or unused structures specifically to reuse the metal and other material for new uses.

This division has helped customers in three states update or dismantle structures ranging from storage tanks to large coal tipples. More than 20 of our employees have mine safety training, and our dedicated fleet of cranes, trucks and other equipment gives us the capabilities to handle jobs large and small.

 

Renewal Groups
            American Railroad Equipment
            ARE-Energy
            CSI Surplus

 

Renewal groups

American Railroad Equipment LLC

Cycle Systems has been dismantling railroad equipment for decades. In fact, the company was founded in Roanoke due in part to the availability of scrap railroad equipment.

Today, a dedicated 100,000-square-foot facility dismantles and stores equipment and parts from locomotives under our subsidiary, American Railroad Equipment (ARE).

ARE-Energy

Born from our expertise in remanufactured locomotive equipment, American Railroad Equipment’s ARE-Energy division focuses on the assembly and packaging of transportable power plants that harness the durability and reliability of GE locomotive engines.

These power plants use recycled, remanufactured and reused parts and can operate on a variety of fuels, including environmentally friendly 100% biofuel.
It’s an ingenious way to preserve the life of rugged engines while generating power.

CSI Surplus

There’s no better way to recycle than to renew industrial supplies that are no longer needed. We purchase inventory and participate in liquidation sales. Every item is inspected, tested and stored in our warehouse.

Every day we have been 400-600 items listed for sale on e-Bay.

See the items for sale at CSI Surplus.