Brenner Recycling

Brenner Recycling is a fourth-generation company located in Hazleton, PA. For more than 91 years, we’ve been a family-owned, hands-on, people-focused, service-oriented recycling business for our commercial, industrial and residential customers.

Today, we employ approximately 20 associates at our state-of-the-art facility and process more than 30 million pounds of scrap material per year. Our hands-on approach, customer focus and recycling expertise help us to best meet your recycling needs.

We specialize in buying, accepting, transporting, processing and selling all types of recyclable products, including scrap iron and steel, nonferrous metals, cardboard, newspaper and electronic scrap.

To transport your materials, Brenner Recycling operates a fleet of 4 tractors, 22 trailers, 3 container trucks and more than 150 load lugger and roll-off containers varying in size from 10 to 40 cubic yards. After preparing the recyclables to meet customer specifications, they are sold to mills throughout the Northeast.

The Brenner Recycling Philosophy

Our Promises

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Customer service you can count on
State-of-the-art recycling leadership
Top market prices
A commitment to the environment and safety
We put our integrity and reputation to the test every day in everything we do. So when we say we’re going to do something for our customers, employees or community, we are going to do it the right way.

Our dedicated team members are focused on treating our customers with old-fashioned respect. Whether it’s helping our customers safely unload their recyclables, picking up or dropping off a container in the right place at the right time, or taking the time to accurately process and sort our materials for our consuming steel mills and foundries. Treating others as we’d like to be treated is at the heart of our company philosophy.

The History of Brenner Recycling

After four generations of recycling, we refuse to scrap our family values.

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In 1925, Brenner Recycling was founded by Maurice H. Brenner as a used auto parts yard which provided local mechanics and auto repair garages with quality used parts for their cars and trucks at affordable prices. Consisting of a small warehouse and the family homestead, Mr. Brenner soon ran out of storage space and began salvaging the scrap metal from the old cars and trucks he accumulated and sold it to steel mills for reprocessing into new steel.

In 1960, Maurice Brenner retired and his sons, Joseph and Myron Brenner, took over the yard with an eye towards expansion. By 1968, Brenner Recycling installed a 300-ton Richards Iron Shark shear which allowed the company to cut scrap automatically and improve production. In 1978, company growth continued with the purchase of a larger, 800-ton shear that could condense an entire automobile in less than five minutes. In 1990, Brenner Recycling entered its third generation when Joseph’s sons, Paul and Lenny Brenner, assumed leadership of the company.

In 2015, Lenny Brenner retired and Brenner Recycling entered its fourth generation of operations with the addition of Paul’s son, Jason Brenner. Paul, Jason, and Burt Rentmeister, the operations manager, currently operate Brenner Recycling. The Company is always growing and continues to offer fair and equal employment to people in the three counties surrounding Hazleton.

For more than 91 years, Brenner Recycling has continued to expand and improve its recycling services and capabilities with upgrades to our scales, fleet of trucks, trailers, material handlers, and shears. For example, in 1997 The Company added a 9,000 square-foot warehouse and installed a state-of-the-art Harris horizontal baler for the efficient baling of non-ferrous scrap metals and paper products. Simultaneously, the company has focused on creating a safer and more efficient environment for both our customers and employees.