Cedillo Recycling
6640 W. Buckeye Rd, Phoenix, Arizona, United States

In 1997, the husband and wife team of Felix and Primi opened the doors of Cedillo Recycling LLC. It began, and remains today, a family owned and operated business. Our friendly staff has over 50 years of experience in the recycling industry. Our goal is to provide the residents and businesses of the West Valley, with a reliable and honest place to recycle ferrous as well as non-ferrous materials. At Cedillo Recycling, we understand that your time is valuable and that is why we have the necessary equipment to make sure that your recycling experience is a pleasant and fast experience.  Please visit our Services page to find out more information about the items that we recycle. If you have any questions, we encourage you to contact us and ask us how we can help you in your recycling endeavors.

Recycling turns materials that would otherwise become waste into valuable resources. Collecting used bottles, cans, and newspapers and taking them to the curb or to a collection facility is just the first in a series of steps that generates a host of financial, environmental, and social returns. Some of these benefits accrue locally as well as globally.
At Cedillo Recycling, recyclables are sorted and prepared into marketable commodities for manufacturing. Recyclables are bought and sold just like any other commodity, and prices for the materials change and fluctuate with the market.

Benefits of recycling:

• RECYCLING PROTECTS AND EXPANDS US MANUFACTURING JOBS AND INCREASES US COMPETITIVENESS.
• RECYCLING REDUCES THE NEED FOR LANDFILLING AND INCINERATION.
• RECYCLING PREVENTS POLLUTION CAUSED BY THE MANUFACTURING OF PRODUCTS FROM VIRGIN MATERIALS.
• RECYCLING CONSERVES NATURAL RESOURCES SUCH AS TIMBER, WATER, AND MINERALS.

Why Recycle?

• Saves Natural Resources - By making products from recycled materials instead of virgin materials, we conserve land and reduce the need to drill for oil and dig for minerals.

• Saves Energy - It usually takes less energy to make recycled products; recycled aluminum, for example, takes 95% less energy than new aluminum from bauxite ore.

• Saves Clean Air and Water - In most cases, making products from recycled materials creates less air pollution and water pollution than making products from virgin materials.

• Saves Landfill Space - When the materials that you recycle go into new products, they don't go into landfills or incinerators, so landfill space is conserved.

• Saves Money and Creates Jobs - The recycling process creates far more jobs than landfills or incinerators, and recycling can frequently be the least expensive waste management method for cities and towns.

• For many of us, recycling has become a part of our daily, or at least weekly, lives. We know that recycling helps conserve natural resources, and most people know that recycling conserves space in our landfills. But did you know that recycling also conserves energy and water and helps to reduce air and water pollution?For example, production of recycled paper uses 80% less water and 65% less energy, and produces 95% less air pollution than virgin paper production. If every American recycled his or her newspaper just one day a week, we would save about 36 million trees a year. For every four-foot stack of paper you recycle, you save a tree.Conserving energy remains an important issue in Arizona, especially with increased demand and unpredictable energy markets. Energy savings through recycling are an important environmental benefit. It almost always takes less energy to make a new product from recycled materials than it does to make it from new materials. For example, when making cans, using recycled aluminum requires 96% less energy than manufacturing new aluminum from its virgin material, bauxite. Other commonly recycled items have a strong energy reduction when compared with the energy intensity used to extract their virgin materials. Recycling plastic bottles uses 76% less energy, paper uses 45% less, and glass uses 21% less.

Main Recyclables:

Aluminum Cans
Aluminum is a sustainable metal and can be recycled over and over again. A can is generally turned into a new can and back on store shelves within 60 days. Cedillo Recycling recycles thousands of cans every day!
Plastic Bottles
According to the Beverage Marketing Corp, the average American consumed 1.6 gallons of bottled water in 1976. In 2006, that number jumped to 28.3 gallons. More than 2.4 billion pounds of plastic bottles were recycled in 2008. Although the amount of plastic bottles recycled in the U.S. has grown every year since 1990, the actual recycling rate remains steady at around 27 percent.
Copper Tubing
Copper is a mineral that is found in the Earth’s crust. It is a ductile metal that has high thermal and electrical conduction properties. Pure copper is soft and malleable and a newly exposed surface has as somewhat pink or peachy color.Recycled copper is worth up to 90 percent of the cost of the original copper. It is also cheaper to recycle copper than it is to mine and extract new copper. Recycling helps keep the cost of copper products down.
Brass
Today almost 90% of all brass alloys are recycled. Because brass is not ferromagnetic, it can be separated from ferrous scrap by passing the scrap near a powerful magnet. Brass scrap is collected and transported to the foundry where it is melted and recast into billits. Billets are heated and extruded into the desired form and size.

Cedillo Recycling also recycles car batteries!
Car batteries are the most recycled products in the U.S., having a 98 percent to 99 percent recycling rate. Most individuals simply return their old car batteries to the dealership or the store where they are purchasing their replacement.Bring in your used car batteries! Feel free to contact Cedillo Recycling with any recycling questions you may have.

Go Green

Recycling is the process of taking a product at the end of its useful life and using all or part of it to make another product. The internationally recognized symbol for recycling includes three arrows moving in a triangle. Each arrow represents a different part of the recycling process, from collection to re-manufacture to resale.But what does all this have to do with you? Well, recycling is a simple way that you, as a consumer, can help out the environment, create a profitable market for recycled goods and help preserve natural resources from being depleted. So… let’s get involved!
At Cedillo Recycling, when we recycle electronics, plasic, aluminum, paper, automotive, metals, and other materials, we are working to benefit both the local community and the global environment. The best part for our customers - we pay YOU!