Facility details
- Address
- 1606 State Route 414
Waterloo, NY 13165 - Phone
- (315) 539-0536
- Website
- empirerecycling.com
- Facility type
- Recycling
- County
- Seneca County
- EPA Region
- 2
- Data sources
- Overture Maps 2026-05-20, EPA
- Last verified
- 2026-10-09
EPA record
Listed in the EPA Facility Registry: 110030898900
Programs on file: NPDES permit NYR00B796 · RCRA hazardous-waste handler NYR000145755
Interest types: ICIS-NPDES NON-MAJOR, STORM WATER INDUSTRIAL
EPA record updated 2026-04-29
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.
Nearby facilities
- Seneca Meadows LF Landfill 2.3 mi · Waterloo, NY
- Trout's Auto Scrap Recycling 4.7 mi · Waterloo, NY
- Luffman metal Recycling 4.8 mi · Seneca Falls, NY
- Luffman Metal Recyclers Recycling 4.9 mi · Seneca Falls, NY
- Maybury Farms Waterloo Transfer Station Transfer Station 5.7 mi · Waterloo, NY
- Geneva DPW C&D Processing Transfer Station 8.0 mi · Geneva, NY
- Geneva Returnables Recycling 8.2 mi · Geneva, NY
- Dox's Finger Lakes Recycling Recycling 8.2 mi · Geneva, NY
- Montezuma Tn Transfer Station Transfer Station 8.3 mi · Montezuma, NY
- Savannah Rural Transfer Station Transfer Station 9.6 mi · Savannah, NY
Nearest landfill: Seneca Meadows LF, Waterloo — 2.3 mi
Area served
Serves Waterloo, Seneca Falls, Cayuga, Montezuma, Fayette, Phelps, Clyde, Geneva, Savannah, Port Byron, Lyons, Union Springs.
County context
One of 5 recycling centers in Seneca County, NY.
ZIP 13165 population 9,429.
New York solid-waste agency: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)