Facility details
- Address
- 214 Elmira Rd
Ithaca, NY 14850 - Phone
- (607) 257-9699
- Website
- ithacareuse.org
- Facility type
- Recycling
- County
- Tompkins County
- EPA Region
- 2
- Data sources
- Overture Maps 2026-05-20, EPA
- Last verified
- 2026-10-09
- Also listed as
- Finger Lakes ReUse
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
- Tompkins County Recycling And Sw Center Recycling 0.8 mi · Ithaca, NY
- Superior Disposal TS Transfer Station 3.9 mi · Newfield, NY
- Lansing Bottle & Can Redemption Center Recycling 7.4 mi · Lansing, NY
- Teets & Sons Scrap Metal Recycling-Newfield Metals 8.6 mi · Newfield, NY
- Perry City Automotive Metals 10.2 mi · Trumansburg, NY
- Simonsen Enterprises Transfer Station Transfer Station 14.2 mi · Odessa, NY
- Raymundo Auto Sales Metals 14.5 mi · King Ferry, NY
- Teets & Sons Scrap Metal Recycling-Groton Metals 15.9 mi · Groton, NY
- Diliberto Disposal Transfer Station 16.7 mi · Hector, NY
- Erin Van Etten Drop-Off Transfer Station 17.0 mi · Erin, NY
Nearest landfill: Cortland County SLF, McGraw — 24.5 mi
Area served
Serves Ithaca, Etna, Jacksonville, Slaterville Springs, Newfield, Freeville, Brooktondale, Trumansburg, Lansing, Willseyville, Groton, Alpine.
County context
One of 7 recycling centers in Tompkins County, NY.
ZIP 14850 population 66,495.
New York solid-waste agency: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)