The Can Man - Canton

The Can Man® has been Jackson's leading metals recycler since 1980, providing both ferrous (iron and steel) and nonferrous (aluminum, copper, stainless steel, nickel, titanium, brass, and others) recycling to Central Mississippi businesses and general public customers. At The Can Man, we firmly believe that metals recycling is good business because metals recycling is good living.

The Can Man® receives scrap metals from a wide range of suppliers and industries as well as the general public. Along with our state-of-the-art facilities at our Jackson/Valley Street and Canton/Yandell Avenue locations, we provide additional services to commercial and industrial accounts, including on-site pick-up services and load and weight tracking capabilities. We offer aggressive pricing, take mixed loads of metal and have the capability to off-load any load large or small.

Through our Jackson and Canton facilities, we provide drive-in service to the general public as well as commercial and industrial services including on-site pick-up, load and weight tracking capabilities, and recycling program management. We are proud to be the recycler of choice for many of the largest industrial projects in Mississippi.

Why Recycle?
Metals recycling is the original green industry. Our recycling operations collect, process, and recycle almost all types and forms of metal. We process raw scrap metal through processes of sorting, shearing, shredding, torching and baling. Metals we process are used by steel mills and foundries across the United States and around the world to produce finished steel and other metal products. Through recycling, millions of tons of materials find new uses each year, helping us to keep Jackson and Central Mississippi clean and green while also serving as an efficient source of raw material for the manufacturers and suppliers that drive our economy.

Why Choose The Can Man? 

• We are Compliant.
  The Can Man® is knowledgeable and fully compliant with all state laws regarding scrap metal. This is beneficial to our clients, because they trust us to adhere to all laws removing the burden from them.
• We Pay Cash.
  The Can Man® offers same-day cash payments for all unregulated metals, such as iron, steel, stainless steel, aluminum products and aluminum cans. We issue checks after a review period for regulated items such as copper and aluminum/copper coils. The Mississippi Secretary of State's website has full information on the metals laws of Mississippi.
• We Make it Simple.
  Make one call to The Can Man, and then forget about it. We will deliver dumpsters to your site and pick them up for recycling on a scheduled basis.

What is NOT Recyclable?

• Beer and soda kegs. These should be returned to the distributor.
• Hazardous material containers.
• Radiated metals.

Why do we recycle metals? And what metals can we recycle?

Scrap metal processing goes far beyond placing aluminum cans in recycling bins. Metals recycling is one of the largest and most important components of a vibrant and healthy US economy. Consider: recycled steel accounts for almost 60% of raw steel production in the United States. Half of our copper consumed in industry - from homes to appliances to electronics - comes from recycled sources.
And not only are metals recycling facilities among the most important sources of metal for our economy, recycling existing metal saves the United States enormously in energy costs. Consider some remarkable facts which make us proud to be a recycler:

• Recycling steel uses more than 60% less energy than producing steel from iron ore.
• Recycling one car alone can save 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,400 pounds of coal and 120 pounds of limestone.
• A recycled aluminum can is not just a can that does not end up on the street or a landfill: it is a source of new aluminum that can save up to 92% of the energy required to produce new aluminum from virgin materials.
• Recycling aluminum cans alone saves 26 million barrels of gasoline each year - America's entire gas supply for three days! (When you toss out one aluminum can you waste as much energy as if you’d filled the same can half-full of gasoline and poured it into the ground.)