Get Cash While Helping The Environment! 

Universal Service Recycling has state certified scales ensure accurate weights are recorded on every transaction. Incoming materials are carefully analyzed and categorized before processing to meet our customers’ quality specifications at time of shipment. Our cost efficient operation allows us to provide our customers and suppliers with constantly higher prices for their recyclable materials and competitive market prices for products.

Contact us today at (775) 461-1280 for more information on our full service recycling processes and products.

Ferrous Metals We Buy:

  • Appliances
  • Automobiles
  • Bailing clips
  • Busheling
  • Cable, fence and wire
  • Cast iron
  • Construction equipment
  • Demolition scrap
  • Farm Machinery
  • Industrial scrap steel
  • Machine shop turnings
  • OTM (Other track material)
  • Prepared #1 and #2 heavy melt
  • Prepared plate and structural
  • Railroad scrap
  • Sheet metal
  • Structural beams
  • Tanks larger than 100 gal must have 3 ft. hole
  • Unprepared steel


Non-ferrous Metals We Buy:

  • All grades of aluminum including:
  • Aluminum cans
  • Aluminum extrusions
  • Cast aluminum
  • Painted siding
  • Sheet aluminum
  • Auto and truck batteries (casings cannot be cracked)
  • Brass plumbing, fixtures, faucets and fittings
  • Catalytic converters
  • Copper #1 and #2
  • Copper sheets
  • Aluminum cans​
  • Glass
  • Insulated copper wiring #1 and #2
  • Electric motors
  • Heater cores
  • Lead
  • Scrap lead
  • Radiators
  • Stainless steel
  • Steel


We Do Not Buy:

  • Barrels, drums, pails and buckets unless triple rinsed, dried and lid removed
  • Brass ammunition or spent rounds
  • Capacitors
  • Cardboard
  • Closed compressed gas cylinders
  • Closed containers of any kind
  • Containers with free-flowing liquids in or outside (tar, oil, gasoline, etc.)
  • Explosive materials
  • Gas tanks without a visible 8" x 8" hole cut in bottom of tank
  • Material containing PCBs, refrigerants or mercury
  • Paint cans
  • Paper
  • Propane, oxygen or acetylene tanks or bottles (must have 8" x 8" hole cut in tank
  • Radioactive material
  • Rims with tires
  • Rubber
  • Thermostats
  • Wood
  • Plastic
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Call Us For Pricing

(775) 461-1280