Family-owned since 1979·Programs nationwide·Domestic & export mills·Chicago, IL(773) 265-1200
Marcells Paper & Metal
Family-owned in Chicago since 1979

Recovered paper and metal programs, run properly.

Mill-direct pricing, the right equipment, and a live portal showing every load and every statement — for one plant or a national footprint. Paper, metal, plastics and pallets on one pickup.

Bales of recovered paper at the MPM plant

Our recycling services

MPM builds recovered-material programs around how your plant actually runs. Our services include:

  • Plant processing, grading and mill-direct sales of recovered paper
  • Metal, plastics and wooden pallets handled as part of the same program
  • Containers, spotted trailers and scheduled or same-day pickup
  • Confidential document destruction
  • Equipment financing at the right volume and deal structure
  • Online reporting and 24/7 access to your loads, statements and impact

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Since 1979family-owned, same phone number, same name on the door
Nationalprograms in every state, shipping to domestic and export mills
Every loadvisible in your portal — scheduled, shipped, paid — with net weight and value
6 daysa week, Sunday pickups on request, special pickups dispatched within 24 hours

What we buy, process and sell

Our primary focus is recovered paper in all grades — OCC, DLK, sorted and mixed ledger, news blanks and publication blanks, book stock, hard white and other pulp substitutes — bought mill-direct and baled to mill specification at our Chicago plant.

While most people know us for paper, MPM also handles aluminum printing plates and mixed metals, industrial scrap plastics, and — through Marcells Pallet Inc — wooden pallets, so one program covers everything leaving your dock.

Get ready, get set, recycle

Not sure what your material is worth, or how much of it is going out loose? We'll come to your site, look at what you ship and how, and show you what a program would look like — no charge, no obligation.

Your program, visible

Every customer gets a login. Current pricing by grade, every load with weights and values, monthly statements per site, payment status and recycling impact — updated as loads ship, not assembled when you ask.

How it all started

A college student, a room full of used punch cards, a $1,000 loan from his grandmother, and a dress shop on Devon Avenue that answered the phone "Marcells." Still family-owned. Still answering the phone.