Recycle Systems has a fleet of six service trucks based in Kirkland, Washington and Salt Lake City, Utah. Each truck is equipped with 500 amp welder, specialized tools and parts to keep compactors, balers, conveyors up and running for our customers. 

Our shop in Kirkland, Washington is equipped to fabricate parts and recondition used equipment including the ability to test run large balers up to
100 horsepower.

Steve Anderson – Account Representative 
Southwest Washington/Oregon/Alaska

Steve has over 25 years of equipment experience ranging from small balers to multi-million dollar MRF projects. Steve covers the Cities of Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland, and Southwest Washington and Oregon State.  Steve has worked with customers on two ram balers, and horizontal balers handling scrap metal, recyclable paper, plastics and aluminum cans.  Another Steve Anderson specialty is providing smaller balers to the remote communities of Alaska – some of which are only reached by barge a few times each year.

R Jefre Hicks – Account Representative
Intermountain Region

R. Jefre Hicks, a Utah native, has worked in the recycling industry since 1993. Handling our intermountain customers by working from a sales office near Salt Lake City, R. Jefre also specializes in municipal solid waste and conveyor systems. R. Jefre has worked with numerous landfills in the ongoing effort to reduce landfill space and extend the lifespan of older landfills. R. Jefre is an avid hunter, fisherman and conservationist.

Seth Rosen – Account Representative

British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Northwest Washington

Seth has 26 years of recycling experience including many years as an operations manager at a high volume recycling plant. Seth has traveled extensively in Canada and is our representative to the recycling associations in each province ( CWMA, RCBC, RCA, SWRC). One of his more unusual projects was installing a large municipal solid waste baler in Yellowknife NWT just prior to freeze-up and before the river crossing closed! Seth has also assisted several communities with mini-MRF sorting systems to produce good quality recyclables at a
sensible cost. 

Left to right: Jan McFarland - Office Manager, Seth Rosen - Representative,
Greg Matheson - Owner, Steve Anderson - Representative, Ken Japhet - Service Manager, Dianne Lahman - Service Dispatch


STAFF PROFILES

Greg Matheson – Owner

Representative for Eastern Washington, Montana, Idaho

Greg is a native of Canada where he was born in Saskatchewan and attended school in British Columbia. Greg has over 30 years recycling and solid waste industry experience in the Pacific Northwest and intermountain regions. He works to support the sales team and covers selected territories and key customer accounts. Greg is always looking for ways that innovations can make equipment simpler and easier to maintain.

Jan McFarland – Office Manager

Jan originally hails from Spokane and has worked for Recycle Systems for over 15 years in which she has learned a lot about equipment and especially parts and service. If you call and ask about the “thing-a-ma-jig”  that "you replaced three years ago on your HRB-10"-- it will be Jan that solves the mystery. Jan also supervises our accounting and keeps our office technology under control –though she agrees with all of us that voice mail is never going to be answering our phone during business hours!

Dianne Lahman – Service Dispatch

Dianne has worked for Recycle Systems for over a year and handles incoming service calls being sure to get all the information we need to for technicians to be prepared to fix equipment. Dianne also handles parts calls for all our products. At Recycle Systems all service calls are" logged in" and Dianne makes sure that every job is handled on a timely basis.

Ken Japhet – Service Manager

Ken is a relatively new member of the Recycle Systems team but he has extensive experience with Harris solid waste equipment going back into the 1990’s. Ken assigns service work to particular technicians. Ken also manages service projects such as installations, relines, and rebuilds to make sure that all job components are in place to get the job done with maximum efficiency.