San Diego, California
Commercial Recycling in San Diego, CA
San Diego is a border-trade and innovation hub. Otay Mesa is California's largest commercial truck crossing, the Port of San Diego moves vehicles and refrigerated cargo, and defense, biotech, and craft brewing fill out the industrial base. All of it runs on corrugated and pallets. CRI services San Diego accounts with the same single-point-of-contact relationship our direct-fleet customers get.
Built for the Border and the Industrial Mesas
San Diego runs on cross-border trade and advanced industry. Otay Mesa is California's largest commercial land crossing, with more than 1.4 million northbound truck crossings a year feeding Tijuana's electronics, automotive, aerospace, and medical-device manufacturing into US distribution. The Port of San Diego handles vehicles and refrigerated produce, and Interstates 5, 805, 15, and 8 tie the border, port, and mesas together.
The volume spreads across the mesas. Cross-border logistics and manufacturing in Otay Mesa, the defense, aerospace, and brewery base in Kearny Mesa and Miramar, and the port-adjacent waterfront run high-volume OCC, stretch film, pallets, and ferrous and non-ferrous metal. Clean cardboard graded right is rebate revenue, not a disposal cost.
CRI services San Diego through our vetted partner network. The customer relationship runs end to end with CRI: one team, one invoice, one point of contact.
San Diego Service Details
Services Available in San Diego, CA
Cardboard Recycling
OCC at plant and DC volume, spotted trailers
Metal Recycling
Ferrous and non-ferrous from manufacturing
Pallet Recycling
Buy, repair, return; wood and plastic
Plastic Recycling
Stretch wrap, LDPE film, rigid plastics
Paper Recycling
Multiple grades, mill-direct shipping
Paper Shredding
Certified destruction with chain of custody
How CRI Services San Diego
CRI operates a direct fleet across Chicagoland from our Addison facility and services 45 states and 4 Canadian provinces through our vetted partner network. San Diego customers get the same CRI account team, the same invoicing, and the same accountability standards as our direct-fleet routes. We dispatch the trucks. We grade the loads. You deal with one company.
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San Diego Recycling, Common Questions
We run a San Diego or Otay Mesa plant, distribution center, or transload. What can CRI recycle?
Old corrugated cardboard and export packaging, stretch wrap and plastic film, wood and plastic pallets, and ferrous and non-ferrous metal, plus certified document and product destruction. Clean fiber ships mill-direct so it earns rebate value instead of becoming a disposal line item.
We have facilities in more than one city. Can CRI cover all of them?
Yes. San Diego can run as one node in a national program, with one CRI contract, one point of contact, and consolidated reporting across the 45 states and 4 Canadian provinces we cover. One team owns scheduling, billing, and escalations for every site.
What does the free assessment involve?
We walk your facility, map every stream, size the right equipment, and put a dollar figure on what your waste is worth. No cost, no obligation, and you keep the numbers either way.
Want to know what your waste is worth?
Call us or request a free assessment. No contracts. No obligation.