About Parallel Products

Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, Parallel Products is North America’s leader in unsaleable beverage destruction and recycling. With regional recycling facilities in Louisville, KY, Bronx, NY, New Bedford, MA and Ontario, CA we offer services nationally to the leaders in the Alcohol and Non-alcohol Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Health & Beauty and Industrial Alcohol industries.

Each year, we destroy and recycle over 13 million cases of distressed or out-of-date beverage products. Through all of our business activities, we recycle 120 million pounds of plastics, four (4) million pounds of aluminum, 70 million pounds of glass, seven (7) million pounds of other packaging materials and recover/manufacture 5.5 million gallon of waste-derived ethanol.

We are proud of all of our services, but are truly made unique by two major elements of our business. First, is our liquid recycling programs in Louisville, KY and Ontario, CA. Through these programs we convert beverage wastes (soda, juice, beer, wine, spirits etc…) into waste-derived fuel grade ethanol. This ethanol is utilized by major oil companies as a clean air additive in their gasoline blends. Materials that would otherwise be unusable wastes now contribute to the production of 51 million gallons of gasoline without the negative effects of food offsets and increased groundwater contamination. Louisville and Ontario are permitted Distilled Spirits Plants (DSP) and Bonded Wine Cellars (BWC).

Second, is our application of optical sorting technology to value-add processing of bottle bill redemption plastics in the Northeast. At our recently completed recycling center in New Bedford, MA, we have deployed an array of sorting equipment that helps recover and maximize the value of over 30million pounds of plastics each year.

At Parallel, it is our goal to recover and reuse the absolute maximum amount of resources from the products and wastes we receive. Because of our ethanol recovery and plastics sorting operations, we have set the bar for recovery/reuse in our industry. Even so, we continue to drive further benefits from the wastes we process.

Today, Parallel Products is working to develop projects that will further our position in the energy sector. As our Nation’s agenda is increasingly focused on energy, and specifically renewable and waste derived energy sources, we are finding new ways to make significant contributions.

Brand Protection, Security, Compliance:
Materials are managed and processed under the strict requirements of the Tax & Trade Bureau, Department of Homeland Security and if applicable, U.S. Customs as we are required to comply with our Distilled Spirits Plants (DSP) and Bonded Wine Cellar (BWC) permits. These requirements apply to receipt, record keeping, destruction and reporting practices. This means that your materials are properly removed from the market and destroyed/recycled to eliminate any possible downstream liabilities.

Federal Excise Tax and Customs Duty Drawback Assistance and Processing:
Parallel has a complete staff of dedicated professionals to process or assist in the processing of tax claims to recover this cost associated with unsaleable products. Each year, we process and transact over $8 million of tax recovery funds on behalf of our customers.

Permitted Distilled Spirits Plants:
For both our Industrial Alcohol and Beverage customers, Parallel Products’ ability to recover and repurpose ethyl alcohol removes this material from the waste stream. Provisions in RCRA (40CFR 261.6) exempt these materials from their prior Hazardous Waste Characterization.

Flexibility:
Capacity- Our facilities have unmatched receiving and processing capacity. Large projects or natural disasters can be managed quickly and efficiently. Logistics- Do your own or have us do it. We can coordinate and schedule shipments by truck or rail with one simple call.