Community Involvement

Watch WILX Channel 10 News on Mondays at 6pm and 11pm to see the Scrappy Play of the Week, a sports play that goes well despite all odds. Also, find out how to get paid to recycle!

Document Destruction Day is an annual event, typically the Saturday after tax day, when individuals, companies, municipalities & and the public at large can come to our facility and watch their confidential documents be shredded for FREE! It's always nice to see people's faces when they have finally cleaned out that basement or office of old, sensitive documents, and know that those documents have been confidentially shredded in a secure environment. On top of the feeling of relief, the public can see how the shredded paper gets compressed into bales, all for the purpose of being recycled and turned into new paper!

The dime is actual size, and will give you a sense of how small the shredded product pieces are. Please do not include coins with your confidential documents, though

Friedland has had an ongoing relationship with Michigan State University. Larry Bass, co-owner of Friedland, helped initiate the first recycling effort at MSU in the 1970's, encouraging the university to educate students on how to separate their materials for recycling. The original recycling effort included regular paper routes, in which paper pins were supplied at various buildings across campus, and Friedland would buy the paper for it's fiber value as a commodity.

Today, MSU regularly sells Friedland their metal for recycling, and Friedland recently commissioned the creation of Scrap Metal Sparty, a nearly 1,000 pound metal sculpture of a spartan riding a chariot. We bleed green and white here, and are proud to have a positive relationship with MSU. Go Green!

Friedland has participated in Be a Tourist in Your Own Town, where we give Lansing residents a tour of our facility as well as let them paint hub caps to place on our fence!  We forward participating again!

Friedland routinely provides tours to Lansing Community College and Michigan State University students. We have a complete open-door policy, and we're happy to show people around our plant. Quite a few people, before they visit, do not understand exactly what we do, but by the time they leave, they have a whole new appreciation for the recycling and scrap industry!