About Us
We were established in the World War II era, at a time when goods needed to be used as efficiently and fully as possible. A time when reuse and recycling were not only beneficial but necessary. Charles Cougle began a door-to-door pickup service. He toted a small scale on the back of his personal truck to collect newspapers and corrugated from households. He would then deliver the materials in his own truck to a local mill.
As time passed, the mill would no longer accept such small quantities of material; they required the material to be baled. When faced with either ending his new sprouting business or making the needed adjustments, Charles purchased a baler and began to compact the material and delivered truck loads of bales to the mill. He used a four car garage located on his land to house the baler, but in time to come he would grow out of the facility and need to construct a larger building in which he could store his growing quantity of material and bales. The entire structure was built by hand-formed blocks. He used a hand truck and simple block and tackle to load the bales onto his vehicle.
Charles Cougle’s success was in a time when an agreement was sealed on a handshake, and doing what you promised was invaluable to your customers and your business. As his son Robert took over the family business, Cougle’s Recycling Inc. remained stead fast to those principles, as will generations to come. Customer focus is the very lifeblood of CRI. We treat every communication opportunity with the highest regard, respecting all people and treating them with the utmost importance . We have shown that we can achieve substantial growth while adding great value to the customer’s bottom line through customizing services to meet their varying needs and providing increased efficiency.
We are a full service-recycling center, which accepts all types of recyclable materials (paper, corrugated, plastics, glass, and non-ferrous metals) from a large variety of businesses, municipalities and individuals. Although we continue to focus on growth, our current customer base extends to thousands of area businesses, and dozens of municipalities and townships. We receive a large array of sorted and commingled materials, either picked up by our fleet or dropped off at our facility. All materials are then fully sorted, separated and shipped to mills to be processed and returned to a finished product. While our largest commodity is paper, we do also receive and process hundreds of tons of plastics monthly.
CRI has a full range of services available to fit whatever your need is, from the small home office to the largest of printeries, distribution centers, or national accounts. Not only do we offer every type of pickup service available, we also offer programs that can help you recycle the largest variety of material, all through one single vendor.
Cougles will do a full assessment of your operations using our countless years of experience and know how. We can help you to determine what materials you can recycle and the best way to process those materials. We will assist you in generating the largest amount of revenue in the most productive way possible. We know that recycling needs to make sense for your company both economically and logistically. Through resource recovery, we can help you make the right decisions to create an economically sound recycling program.
Experience and reliability through three generations and over half a century, we have been servicing and finding markets for a variety of materials that others cannot move. We have also provided consistent reliable service day after day. This all contributes to the building of a meaningful relationship with our customers both large and small. We have made this possible with the help of our dedicated employees, whom are striving to achieve the utmost reliability and integrity while providing you with the highest value possible.
We scan the horizons for new and more efficient ways of serving our customers and rewarding our employees. We focus on expanding our customer base while ever improving our customer service, as well as providing all of our clients with customized programs helping them to save their communities and environment, while maintaining a productive and competitive company atmosphere. Due to our close involvement with Georgia Pacific and other various mills, and our reputation for quality material, we are able to receive and pass on to our customers some of the highest returns in the industry. In a more skeptical time of contracts and legalities we are still strongly planted in the belief that an agreement is sealed with a handshake, and what we promise is what we provide.
We are a full service document destruction operation, which can securely meet all of your confidential document destruction needs. Confidential material pickups can be arranged, materials can be dropped off, or tailoring a program to meet your company’s individual needs including all criteria set out by the new HIPPA regulations. We customize all of our programs to maintain the most secure and cost efficient document destruction process available as well as the most environmentally sound by recycling all material after the destruction is complete.
