Facility details
- Address
- 1885 Pitken Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11212 - Phone
- (718) 345-2240
- Website
- gershow.com
- Facility type
- Recycling
- County
- Kings County
- EPA Region
- 2
- Data sources
- EPA
- Last verified
- 2026-10-09
EPA record
Listed in the EPA Facility Registry: 110017137864
Programs on file: AIR NY0000002610400252 · Air program 3604700842 · Emissions inventory 15448211 · FIS 2-6104-00252
Interest types: AIR MINOR, HAZARDOUS AND CRITERIA AIR POLLUTANT MAJOR
EPA record updated 2017-06-01
About this facility
A recycling center collects, sorts and prepares recoverable materials so they can be sold to mills and manufacturers instead of being landfilled. Some are public drop-off sites run by a city, county or hauler; others are commercial buy-back yards or processing plants that take material from collection routes and businesses. What a given site handles depends on its equipment and the markets it sells into, so one center may focus on cardboard and containers while another takes only scrap metal. Many sites pay for certain materials and charge for others. Hours, fees and accepted materials vary — call ahead to confirm what is taken, how it must be sorted and whether there is a minimum quantity.
Typically accepted at Recycling Center facilities
- Cardboard and mixed paper
- Plastic bottles and containers
- Aluminum and steel cans
- Glass bottles and jars
- Scrap metal
- Electronics (at some sites)
Hours, fees and accepted materials vary by site — call ahead before hauling a load.
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- Irving Scrap Metal Recycling 1.4 mi · Brooklyn, NY
- Plakos Scrap Processing MetalsRecycling 1.5 mi · New York, NY
- Metropolitan Recycling Recycling 1.5 mi · Brooklyn, NY
- ATLAS Roll-Off Corp Transfer Station 1.5 mi · Brooklyn, NY
- Action Environmental Systems LLC Transfer StationRecycling 1.6 mi · Brooklyn, NY
- 26th Ward WPCP Recycling 1.7 mi · Brooklyn, NY
- Brooklyn Resource Recovery Recycling 2.3 mi · Brooklyn, NY
- Fountain Avenue LF Landfill 2.4 mi · Brooklyn, NY
Nearest landfill: Fountain Avenue LF, Brooklyn — 2.4 mi
Area served
Serves Brooklyn, Ridgewood, Woodhaven, Ozone Park, Howard Beach, Middle Village, Maspeth, Richmond Hill, South Richmond Hill, Rego Park, South Ozone Park, Kew Gardens.
County context
One of 46 recycling centers in Kings County, NY.
ZIP 11212 population 87,946.
New York solid-waste agency: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)