Lakeshore Recycling Systems receives BBB Torch Award

Lakeshore Recycling Systems (LRS), an independent recycling and waste diversion provider based in West Chicago, Illinois, has received a Better Business Bureau 2018 Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics for companies with 500 to 7,500 employees. LRS is the first waste services company to be recognized in the award’s 21-year existence.

“The Torch Award is the most prestigious award the BBB can present to a business," says Steve J. Bernas, the president & CEO of the Better Business Bureau (BBB) serving Chicago and Northern Illinois, in a written news release. "Torch Award winners demonstrate the highest ethical standards and trust with customers, business partners, shareholders and the communities in which they do business. Being a recipient of this award indicates the company not only believes in the high standards promoted by the BBB, but consistently demonstrates and integrates them into daily business practices."

Of the more than 700 BBB Torch Award applicants, five Illinois companies were recipients for the Torch Award based on the nominated company’s employee size.

“We are humbled, grateful and honored to be named a Torch Award winner by the Better Business Bureau, easily considered to be the standard bearer and authority in business ethics,” says LRS CEO Alan T. Handley. “LRS, through our more than 850 employees, takes pride in operating each day at the highest levels of personal and professional integrity. On behalf of our employees, customers, partners and communities we serve, I’d like to personally thank the BBB for this tremendous distinction.”

LRS has held accreditation and an A+ ranking with the BBB since 2015. Over the past year, LRS has received the Overall Safety Award from the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), the Illinois Sustainability Award from the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, the Daily Herald Business Ledger Award for excellence in business innovation and numerous industry accolades and citations.

Lakeshore Recycling Systems is the largest privately held waste services company in Illinois and Wisconsin. LRS specializes in recycling and waste diversion programs, affordable roll-off container services, portable restroom rentals, mulch distribution, street sweeping, on-site storage options and comprehensive waste removal for businesses and residential homeowners in Chicago, Northern Illinois and South Western Wisconsin.