George Adams

George Adams is CEO and President of SA Recycling, located in Anaheim, California. He has been in the scrap metal recycling business since 1977. Originally started by Adams' father almost 50 years ago as a single recycling metal facility in Anaheim, Adams Steel merged with Sims Metal Management in September of 2007 to form SA Recycling. SA Recycling now has over 130 locations in 16 states with over 3,000 employee and will process 5+ million tons of recycled metals annually, becoming the nation's largest scrap metal recycling company in 2022. The company’s forte is shredding, with 25 shredders nationwide. Additionally, SA Recycling has four port loading operations in Long Beach and Los Angeles California, Savannah Georgia, and Brownsville Texas. The latest acquisition expanded into Brownsville, Texas, a ship breaking facility.

Additionally, George Adams is an attorney who earned his Juris Doctor degree from Western State University in 1984. He is member of the American, California, and Orange County Bar Associations. He served as Chairman of Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), the recycling industry’s national association, from April 2008 until May of 2010 and still serves on the Board of Directors of ISRI. Adams is author of the book, "Create the Connection: 25 Surefire Strategies for Success in Leadership and Life," based on his 40 years of discovering what works and what doesn't.