Timberline Environmental Services (TES), longtime leader in the demil industry, has established an R-3 (resource recovery and recycling) program in support of DoD’s efforts to reduce stockpiled small arms ammunition and utilize environmentally friendly methods wherever possible.

Since 2000, TES has processed in excess of 2 million pounds of ammunition for Joint Munitions Command, ATF, FBI and law enforcement agencies throughout the US and Canada, utilizing our patented BulletBuster system. TES has now moved to the R-3 approach for ammunition demilitarization due to the recycle recovery benefits of this process.

TES employs state-of-the-art mechanical disassembly equipment to demilitarize small arms ammunition by mechanically separating it into its component parts (case, powder, and projectile). The demilitarized ammunition components are sorted to recover the reusable components that can be sold to the ammunition market, and the balance that can’t be is recycled as scrap.