Recycling Works, Inc. Is a secondary materials processor for many industrial and post consumer recyclables. In the 1940's the family business expanded its services when they realized a market opportunity in buying and reselling used cardboard boxes and other shipping containers in the local and Chicago markets. This recycling service evolved over the next 55 years to the company that it is today, recycling and processing over 20 different secondary materials. Why Recycle? Corrugated boxes take up almost 20% of our waste stream. By volume, OCC (Old, Corrugated Containers) is the largest item in landfills.* Paper is consumed in the U.S. at a rate of 600 pounds of paper for each American every year. This is equivalent to 6 trees per person per year.* *U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., estimates