United Scrap Metal - Philadelphia,PA

United Scrap Metal (USM), founded in 1978, is an award-winning provider of innovative recycling solutions. We purchase, process and market recyclable commodities, enabling our customers to focus on their core business. Underlying every relationship and each transaction is a constant commitment to high integrity. We take a consultative approach to each client relationship. Our team of 180 dedicated employees serves more than 2,500 commercial clients coast to coast. United Scrap Metal's many awards and positive media coverage has made our company one of the most recognized firms in the industry. A multicultural, diverse organization dedicated to quality and continuous improvement, United Scrap Metal is a certified Women Business Enterprise (WBE) that can help customers meet their diversity goals, including second-tier WBE credits when we provide recycling services to our customers’ subcontractors. (view WBE certificate)
USM has been recognized for its commitment to corporate social responsibility that benefits our team, customers, community and planet. Many customers enthusiastically join us in our community and charitable initiatives.

Recycling Today for a Greener Tomorrow
United Scrap Metal is changing the way our customers manage and benefit from their recyclable commodities. We will evaluate your waste stream and successfully reduce landfill volumes.

United Scrap Metal
Experienced. Innovative. Energetic.Committed to our customers, community and environment.

Aluminum Litho Recycling Program
United Scrap Metal is pleased to announce our Aluminum Litho Recycling Program! Find out how our custom solutions will work for you.

A Global Source for High-Quality Recyclable Commodities

United Scrap Metal meets the global needs of buyers of both non-ferrous and ferrous metals, as well as other non-metallic commodities. In every transaction, United operates on high integrity and full transparency.Suppliers of the high-quality materials purchased and then recycled by United include prominent mills, foundries, many specialty markets and investment casting companies.Our local, national and global reach enables us to sell high-quality recyclable materials to consumers operating in markets around the world. A bar-coded inventory system, utilizing real-time information, allows us to efficiently tag and ship orders. Consumers are provided with highly accurate and timely information. At our customer’s request, United Scrap can provide versatile processing and customized packaging. Since we operate our own delivery fleet, we ensure quick response, with 24/7 order processing. All orders, including high-volume transactions, are processed and delivered on schedule.

Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety

The nature of the United Scrap Metal operations has a positive impact on the environment through the processing and conservation of metals, plastic, and other non-renewable resources. Consistent with these core operations, it is United Scrap Metal’s goal to accomplish its business objectives while meeting and exceeding the quality, environmental and health & safety expectations of our management, employees, customers, suppliers, and regulators.We will continually improve our systems while striving to minimize adverse impacts on the environment throughout our operations. In order to achieve the above statement of this QEH&S and other objectives, United Scrap Metal is committed to the following:

• Ensure that these policies are appropriate to our operations, and its potential environmental impacts and health and safety risks;
• Comply with all relevant QEH&S legal requirements, customer and product requirements, industry guidelines applicable to RIOS member company industries and any other QEH&S commitments made by the RIOS member company;
• We will strive for continual improvement;
• Prevent work place injuries;
• Provide the framework for establishing QEH&S goals;
• Ensure high customer satisfaction;
• Prevent pollution;
• This system and policies are communicated and understood by all employees;
• That QEH&S is made available to the public, suppliers, customers, contractors, and other interested parties and is reviewed and amended, as necessary and appropriate.

We recognize that the responsibilities for protection of the environment are shared, requiring cooperation, not only between employees and their supervisors, but also among and between all those who assume the various positions within the company. United Scrap Metal will continually improve its environmental performance including the setting of quality, environmental, health, and safety goals while considering our footprint as well as business, financial, operational and legal requirements.