Mid America Recycling partners with On-Site Information Destruction

Mid America Recycling, Chicago, has announced On-Site Information Destruction, Waterloo, Iowa, will take over the company’s document destruction accounts effective Feb. 1.

Mid America Recycling says it will continue to provide all related recycling services outside of document destruction.

The company says this partnership comes after Mid America Recycling owners purchased the largest material recovery facility (MRF) in Des Moines, Iowa, from Waste Management in June 2015.

“Our customers will not be affected by this partnership,” says Scott Emery, general manager for the Mid America Recycling Des Moines facility. “We are simply creating greater efficiencies for both companies. Mid America Recycling will focus solely on recycling and processing, while On-Site will expand its superior secure document destruction services.”

Established in 2001, On-Site Information Destruction is a secure document and paper shredding company spanning Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. On-Site owns and operates three facilities in two states, handling more than 1,000 accounts totaling more than 4,000 tons shredded and recycled annually.

“We take great pride in our business, providing only the highest level of security and professionalism to our customers,” says Tom Saylor, general manager of On-Site Information Destruction. “This partnership with Mid America Recycling is a win-win for both companies. We expand our geographic footprint while having a local facility to lease and a stable buyer for our shredded materials.”

Mid America Recycling is owned and managed by a number of the same individuals who started and successfully operated the business between 1979 and 2007. Since 2014, the group has purchased two recycling facilities formerly under the Mid America Recycling umbrella: one in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the Des Moines MRF.

This marks the first partnership between the two companies.

On-Site Information Destruction has 12 employees, a fleet of 11 vehicles, including eight mobile shredding trucks, and two off-site destruction facilities. On-Site provides document, hard drive and product destruction services. The company says it expanding geographically and into new services in an effort to continually add value to its customers needing data protection services.

The owners of Mid America Recycling have more than 100 years of combined expertise in recycling, waste management and business management, with a history of developing environmental networks.