Yuma, Arizona
Commercial Recycling in Yuma, AZ
Yuma is the Winter Lettuce Capital of the World, growing roughly 90 percent of the country's leafy greens from November through March, plus melons, lemons, Medjool dates, and Desert Durum wheat across more than 175 crops. That harvest feeds a dense base of produce coolers, packing houses, and food processors, and Interstate 8 and the San Luis ports of entry move it all to market and across the border. MCAS Yuma and the Yuma Proving Ground anchor the region alongside it. All of it runs on corrugated and pallets. CRI services Yuma accounts with the same single-point-of-contact relationship our direct-fleet customers get.
Built for the Winter Vegetable Capital
Yuma sits in the lower Colorado River valley where Arizona, California, and Mexico meet, and the economy is built on what the desert grows. Farms here produce about 90 percent of the leafy vegetables grown in the United States from November through March, across more than 175 crops that also include melons, lemons, gourmet Medjool dates, and Desert Durum wheat. Produce coolers, packing houses, and food processors have grown on top of that harvest, Interstate 8 runs west to San Diego and east toward Phoenix and I-10, and the San Luis I and San Luis II ports of entry move freight and people across the border every day.
The volume runs across cooling, packing, processing, and distribution. The produce coolers and packing houses, food and beverage processors, and warehousing and cross-border logistics operations along I-8 and the San Luis ports run high-volume OCC, secondary packaging, stretch film, and pallets, plus metal off cooling lines, packing equipment, and shop scrap. Clean cardboard graded right is rebate revenue, not a disposal cost.
CRI services Yuma through our vetted partner network. The customer relationship runs end to end with CRI: one team, one invoice, one point of contact.
Yuma Service Details
Services Available in Yuma, AZ
Cardboard Recycling
OCC at cooler and plant volume, spotted trailers, compactors
Pallet Recycling
Buy, repair, return; built for high-cycle shippers
Plastic Recycling
Stretch wrap, LDPE film, rigid plastics
Paper Recycling
Multiple grades, mill-direct shipping
Metal Recycling
Ferrous and non-ferrous, cooling lines and equipment
Paper Shredding
Certified destruction with chain of custody
How CRI Services Yuma
CRI operates a direct fleet across Chicagoland from our Addison facility and services 45 states and 4 Canadian provinces through our vetted partner network. Yuma 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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Yuma Recycling, Common Questions
We run a Yuma produce-cooling, packing, or food-processing operation. Can CRI handle our OCC and film at volume?
Yes. We size spotted trailers and compactors to your dock and line throughput, schedule swaps so you are never backed up through peak winter season, and weigh every load on state-certified scales. Clean OCC and waxed-alternative corrugated, stretch film and poly liner, pallets, and ferrous and non-ferrous scrap off cooling and packing equipment all get handled, and clean fiber ships mill-direct so it earns rebate value instead of becoming a disposal line item.
Can our cardboard and paper earn rebates, not just lower our disposal bill?
Yes. Graded and shipped mill-direct against live commodity markets, your OCC and paper come back as rebate revenue. The free assessment shows what your Yuma streams are worth.
Can CRI report our diversion rate for sustainability goals?
Yes. You get monthly reporting on volumes, commodity revenue, and diversion rate, built for the ESG and finance teams that need the numbers documented.
Want to know what your waste is worth?
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