Calamari Recycling

Calamari Recycling is a scrap metal yard in Essex that also rents out roll-off containers. Its website calls it a family-owned scrap metal recycling and commercial dumpster service in Essex, CT, and the company says it has been in business 91 years. On Google it holds 4.5 stars from 69 ratings. A 2024 customer wrote that the company spotted two 30 yard roll offs, about a week apart, while they disassembled a 3,000 square foot warehouse of steel racking. A 2026 customer said the staff delivered a dumpster on time. A 2023 customer said the company came for a heat treat oven with an empty truck, and they filled that panel truck with other scrap metal and machinery. A 2025 customer recycled old metal cabinets, pipes and scrap from a house cleanout in Portland there and called it a very easy process. A 2023 customer who brought a big trailer of mixed metals said the crane operator unloaded it with two sweeps of an electro-magnet. A 2024 customer said the yard did not let them sort 50 pounds of brass and paid the iron brass price of 30 cents instead of the 2 dollars they expected. A 2024 customer said clean THHN wire was put in a copper 3 category rather than #1 insulated wire. A 2024 customer said the yard closed for a holiday with no notice on Google or Facebook.