Giant Food, Inc., in Salisbury, recycles newspaper and cardboard. Acme recycles cardboard, food waste, and plastic. Pepsi-Cola recycles plastic, cardboard, and glass. Perdue recycles organic waste, plastic, and cardboard. Coscov's recycles cardboard, office paper, and plastic.
Dresser recycles steel and aluminum.
Standard Register recycles steel, aluminum, cardboard, wood, paper, and plastic. The Board of Education has started implementing recycling in all public schools. Currently only mixed paper and cardboard are recycled. Salisbury State University recycles high-grade white paper, plastics, glass, aluminum and steel cans, cardboard, white goods, food waste, yard waste and used oil. White paper, mixed paper, newsprint, aluminum cans and glass bottles are being recycled in county offices.