Tennessee Valley Recycling LLC-Pulaski TN Div
821 West College St., Pulaski, Tennessee, United States

Tennessee Valley Recycling LLC provides unparalleled scrap metal management and recycling services to the entire Tennessee River Valley region. TVR also purchases scrap metals from dealers, auto salvage yards, demolition contractors, government, civic organizations and the public. We produce the highest quality scrap metal products for re-melting by steel mills and foundries, aluminum mills and smelters, copper and brass mills, foundries and smelters and for export. We ship our products directly to consumers regionally, nationally and worldwide.

Tennessee Valley Recycling was established in February 2000, through the merger of Denbo Iron & Metal Co. Inc. of Decatur, Ala. (founded 1907), L. Miller & Son Inc. of Huntsville, Ala. (founded 1918), Denbo Scrap Materials Inc. of Pulaski, Tennessee (founded 1923), Denbo Metal Recovery LLC of Pulaski, Tenn. and several other related companies. All these firms trace their origins to the Tennessee Poultry & Hide Co., operated by Benjamin Denbo, Isaac Denbo, Jacob Bernstein and Louis Miller, all Eastern European immigrants to America.

Now joined together, these firms represent over 375 years of experience in the metals recycling industry and continue to serve those in the Tennessee River Valley area and beyond. TVR is owned, managed and operated by the descendants of its founders and provides metal recycling and scrap management services to hundreds of industries—large and small—throughout this region. The company has extensive baling and shearing capabilities, and operates full-service scrap metal processing facilities, including two large auto shredding plants, in Decatur, Huntsville,Sheffield, Russellville, and Athens AL., and Pulaski, TN.

Leadership

JOEL DENBO IS CHIEF MANAGER—OPERATIONS OF TENNESSEE VALLEY RECYCLING LLC.

He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1976 with a degree in Business Administration. Upon his graduation, he joined Denbo Iron & Metal Co., Inc. of which he is now president.  He has served in local business and civic organizations throughout his career.  He served as Chair of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), a national trade association, from 2004-2006. He previously served in other capacities both regionally and nationally for that organization and continues to serve as a National Board Member. In 2006, he was recognized by the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) with its Certificate of Merit for his “support of and commitment to the international recycling industry.”

SOLOMON MILLER IS CHIEF MANAGER—ADMINISTRATION OF TENNESSEE VALLEY RECYCLING LLC. 

He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1976 Phi Beta Kappa, with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and received his J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1979. He practiced law with the Nashville, Tennessee firm Dearborn & Ewing before joining L. Miller & Son, Inc., a predecessor company of TVR, of which he is president. He has served as an officer and board member of many local and civic organizations throughout his career. He is a member of the bars of Alabama and Tennessee.

MORLEY DENBO IS CO-CHAIRMAN OF TENNESSEE VALLEY RECYCLING LLC.

He served in the United States Navy during WWII, and attended the University of Alabama after his discharge. In 1947, he joined Twin City Iron & Metal Company of Bristol, Tennessee, and was employed there until he purchased what is now Denbo Iron & Metal Company, Inc. of Decatur, Alabama in 1950. Not only has he been prominent in local business and civic activities, but he has also served at regional and national levels in the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, a national trade association, and its predecessors. In 2004, he was profiled in Scrap magazine as a leader in the recycling industry.  He was presented ISRI’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 for his contributions to the recycling industry.

Tennessee Valley Recycling LLC is committed to operating all of its facilities not only in full compliance with all applicable environmental laws and regulations, but also as guardians of the land we occupy, the waters we adjoin, and the air that surrounds us.

As part of TVR’s commitment, we maintain a strict source control program.  For environmental, safety and health, legal, and quality control reasons, we are unable to accept the following items, whether presented alone or as a component of other scrap metal items.  We thank all our customers for your cooperation and understanding!

• PCB’s, capacitors, fluorescent light ballasts, and all other items that contain PCB’s.
• Copiers, microwave ovens, televisions
• Computers, computer monitors and components
• CFC’s, HCFC’s, and their substitutes (refrigerant gases and liquids such as Freon, etc.)
• Appliances and vehicles with CFC’s, HCFC’s, and their substitutes.  All such substances must be recycled or removed in accordance with the law BEFORE you present the item to us for sale.
• Drums, barrels, tanks; closed containers
• Propane tanks, refrigerant gas tanks, compressed gas cylinders
• Trash, garbage, paint cans with wet paint
• Vehicles, appliances, and other scrap with trash, garbage, or excessive dirt
• Any object with “hazardous”, “poisonous”, “explosive”, “flammable”, “radioactive”, “bio-hazard”, or “corrosive” markings, or other markings indicating that a dangerous substance has been in the object
• Radioactive material, unspent airbag canisters, explosives, bullets, or shell casings
• Catalytic converters (unless part of a scrap vehicle)
• Loose tires (check with us concerning tires that are on scrap vehicles)
• Mercury, liquids, concrete, asbestos, glass, certain kinds of medical equipment
• Dry-cell batteries, auto batteries contained in scrap iron
• All other hazardous, dangerous, or illegal items

This list is not intended to be exhaustive.  TVR reserves the right to amend, change, or otherwise alter this list without prior notice.

Services

Tennessee Valley Recycling has extensive experience meeting the scrap recycling requirements of major industrial plants on a daily basis, in some cases continuously for more than 50 years. Our modern scrap-hauling fleet assures timely and efficient service. We provide a variety of roll-off containers and trailers for placement of scrap metals as well as in-plant scrap-handling equipment.