Cherry Companies, Houston, Texas, recently opened its fourth recycling center. Located in Hitchcock, Texas, the 14-acre Hitchcock Recycling Center, 5402 Highway 6, accepts concrete, asphalt and residential composition asphalt shingles for recycling. Cherry’s Hitchcock Recycling Center also pays for concrete. Cherry has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for a permit to accept and recycle used tires at the Hitchcock Recycling Center. Until the permit is approved, Cherry accepts and recycles tires only at its 616 Almeda Road Recycling Center in Houston. By adding the new Hitchcock Recycling Center, the company says it is well positioned to serve customers in all quadrants of Houston and those south of Nasa Road 1 to Galveston. Cherry’s other Houston-area recycling centers are located at 6019 Crawford Road and 4601 Holmes Road.

Hitchcock is Cherry’s second largest recycling facility and can produce 600 tons of TexDot Flex/Base concrete, 400 tons of 3- X 5-inch concrete and 1,000 tons of 1 ¾-inch asphalt daily. With the addition of Hitchcock, the combined daily production of Cherry’s recycling centers is 5,000 tons of TexDot Flex/Base, 1,500 tons of 3 X 5-inch concrete and 5,000 tons of 1 ¾-inch-asphalt.

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