Gershow Recycling

A Leader in the Scrap Metal Industry
Founded in 1964 by Sam Gershowitz, Gershow Recycling began as a two-man
operation with a tractor and trailer, a boom truck and the first portable car flattener.
Today, it is one of Long Island’s oldest and most successful environmental companies whose mission is: Conserving the Future by Recycling the Past. Gershow
recognized early on that Long Island had a growing solid waste problem and they
could do something about it. As a result, they went to the region’s landfills to literally
mine thousands of tons of cars that had been entombed there because they felt they
could be recycled.
Today, Gershow Recycling operates the most modern, technically advanced metal
processing and recycling facilities in the United States. Their modern equipment and
their ability to meet new recycling industry needs reflects the commitment they have
made toward providing the finest service possible to their customers.
In recent years, the company has been featured several times on Fox News, Fox
Business News and the Science Channel. In 2010, Gershow was regularly shown on
Spike Television’s program “Scrappers.” In 2011, the company was the subject of an
hour-long National Geographic program called “Break it Down.”
BREAK IT DOWN
Buyers of Scrap Metal
Gershow Recycling is a processor of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, as well as
paper products. The company operates eight facilities throughout Long Island and
Brooklyn with a group of highly trained and skilled associates. Gershow purchases
scrap metal and paper products from the public, including homeowners and businesses, and then manufactures them into high-quality scrap products for recycling.
The company then sells these commodities domestically and worldwide to mills and
manufacturers for use in new products. As the only true scrap metal processor in the
region it serves, if you are not working directly with Gershow, you are not getting the
most for your scrap metal.
Types of Metal We Purchase:
In addition to junk cars, trucks and buses, Gershow recycles just about any product
that contains ferrous or non-ferrous metals, including:
•Aluminum
•Aluminum Mix
•Aluminum Siding
•Aluminum Wheels
•Appliances
•Auto Hulks
•Automobile Batteries
•Automobile Radiators
•Automobile Parts
•Barbecues
•Bare Brite Copper Wire
•Brass
•Copper
•Copper Bearing Scrap
•Copper Tubing
•Corrugated Cardboard
•Electric Motors
•Electronics
•Fuel Storage Tanks
•Insulated Copper Wire
•Lawn Furniture
•Light Iron
•Manufactured Waste
•Metal Cabinets & Desks
•Steel
•Tin Cans
•Wrought iron
Our Services:
Gershow never loses sight of the fact that, no matter what high-tech equipment
emerges, it is their unmatched service and competitive prices that keep their
customers coming back year after year. Only Gershow has the resources
necessary to provide the best possible service to its customers. The company
has eight locations throughout Long Island and Brooklyn and maintains a fleet of
hundreds of roll-off containers ranging in size from 10 to 80 yards that it will
regularly service to meet the customer’s needs. All of the company’s trucks are radio
dispatched and monitored via a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) system.
Help Your Company’s Bottom Line
Who Should Sell Their Scrap Metal to Gershow?
Whether your company is a manufacturer, a contractor, an auto repair shop, or
just about any business that regularly deals with metal waste, recycling can help
your bottom line. However, the company you choose can make all the difference.
Gershow’s customers include the following types of businesses:
•Auto Wrecking Companies
•Automotive Repair Shops
•Automobile Body Repair Shops
•Boat Yards
•Bus Companies
•Carpenters
•Commercial Builders
•Construction Companies
•Demolition Companies
•Do-It-Yourselfers
•Electric Motor Repair
•Electrical Contractors
•Fencing Companies
•General Contractors
•Heating and Ventilation Contractors
•Home Builders
•Home Heating Companies
•Home Improvement Contractors
•Local Towns and Villages
•Machine Shops
•Manufacturers
•Masonry Contractors
•Office Buildings
•Painters
•Petroleum Companies
•Plumbers
•Recovery Plants
•Roofers
•Sanitation Companies
•Scrap Yards
•Sewer Contractors
•Siding Contractors
•Sunroom Contractors
•Telephone Companies
•Transfer Stations
•Transmission Repair Shops
•Trucking Companies
•Utilities
Only Gershow has the resources to serve
large companies and manufacturers.
The Leader in Scrap Metal Recycling Since 1964
Aluminum, Brass, Copper, Steel, Cast Iron
Old Appliances, Junk Cars, Manufactured Waste
Also Accepting C&D.* Container service available.
*Only at the Freeport and Valley Stream locations.
BROOKLYN
VALLEY STREAM
FREEPORT
NEW HYDE PARK
Lic. #: 7086593
1888 Pitkin Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 345-2240
97 East Hawthorne Ave.
Valley Stream, NY
(516) 825-7244
143 Hanse Ave.
Freeport, NY
(516) 634-0644
Lic. #: 7090157
Accepting C&D
Accepting C&D
Lic. #: 7112745
Lic. #: 7111364
24 Denton Ave.
New Hyde Park, NY
(516) 746-1081
Huntington
New Hyde Park
Bay Shore
Med ford
Brooklyn
Freeport
Valley Stream
Lindenhurst
HUNTINGTON
149 W. 11th St.
Huntington Sta., NY
(631) 385-1200
Lic. #: 7106710
LINDENHURST
635 Muncy Ave.
Lindenhurst, NY
(631) 587-1991
Lic. #: 7054828
BAY SHORE
33 McAdam St.
Bay Shore, NY
(631) 234-1022
Lic. #: 7090529
MEDFORD
Corporate Headquarters
71 Peconic Ave.
Medford, NY
(631) 289-6188
Lic. #: 7002727
Our Products
Gershow recycles metal products and then manufactures them into finished
products in customer-specified forms, including baled, sheared, and shredded
for sale domestically and for export overseas to steel mills, copper and aluminum
foundries, paper mills and other metal manufacturing facilities. The company owns
and operates three automobile shredders, as well as guillotine shears and balers at
each of its eight locations. It owns a fleet of more than 250 rail cars and maintains a
rail yard adjacent to its shredding facility, allowing it to ship products using just about
any form of transportation to any destination.
Gershow’s products include:
Aluminum
•Copper rads clean
•Copper rads dirty
•Copper rad ends
•Condensors
•Condensor clips
•Litho
•MLCC painted
•MLCC unpainted
•Screens
•Sheet
•Siding
•Turnings
•Wheels
•Wheels chrome
Copper
•Brite
•#1
•Tin plated
•#2
•Shredded #2
•Light
•Leaded light
Insulated Wires
•30%
•42%
•50%
•BX
•High-grade
•Poly wire
Brass
•Bullets
•Faucets
•Mixed yellow
•Yellow pipe
•Red pipe
•Composition
•81 metal
•Radiators clean
•Radiators dirty
•Shredded mixed
•Heater cores
Zorba
•1.5” & larger
•5/8” to 1.5”
•SGM #1
•SGM #2
•SGM #4
•Twitch
Stainless
•18-8
•Shredded 18-8
•15-5 turnings
Lead
Plastic
•Mixed scrap
•Range
•Gas Tanks
•Bumpers
Ferrous
Copper Bearing
•Shredded Steel
•#1 Steel
•Plate & Structural Steel
•#1 Steel
•Rotors & Drums
•#1 bundles
•Cast iron
•Cable
•Auto batteries
•Industrial batteries
Paper
•OCC
•News
•Electric motors mixed AC
•Electric motors small AC
•Electric motors mixed DC
•Electric motors sealed units
•Electric motors sealed
units shrd
•Stators large
•Stators small
•Armatures
•Shredder pickings
•Starter-alternators
•Alum transformer cores
•Copper transformer cores
Preserving Our Environment
Gershow is one of Long Island’s oldest and most successful environmental companies whose mission is: Conserving the Future by Recycling the Past. From its early
days of mining the region’s landfills of thousands of tons of cars, it has continued to
work to minimize the amount of solid waste entering the region’s landfills.
Each year, Gershow recycles enough cars to stretch end to end from Medford, New
York to North Carolina, or you can fill all eight lanes of the Long Island Expressway
from the Midtown Tunnel to Riverhead, New York.
The company continues to invest in the most technologically advanced recycling
equipment that will allow it to recycle the most amount of metal possible. It belongs
to a vital national industry that helps to preserve the environment through energy
reduction and decreased emissions necessary to manufacture products. For
instance, in 2010 alone, the industry processed 74 million metric tons of steel.
community
outreach programs
As part of its community outreach
programs, the company regularly appears in schools to lecture
on the importance of recycling
and to provide educational tools
about the environment. It has also
initiated a successful Can Tabs
for Kids program that not only
teaches area schoolchildren the
importance of recycling, but also
helps to raise funds in the fight
against childhood cancer.
Proudly Supporting our Local Communities
Gershow believes how they act reflects directly on their customers, and therefore
it plays an active role in the community. The company helps fund grassroots
environmental programs that promote recycling and environmental conservation and also supports several community and youth programs. The company
provides a scholarship award to several graduating students each year who are
pursuing engineering or environmental studies. It makes regular donations of
vehicles and provides the use of its facilities to local fire and ambulance companies for
training exercises.
Some of the organizations Gershow has supported:
•American Cancer Society
•Camp Pa-Qua-Tuck
•Citizens Campaign for the Environment
•Great Brookhaven Cleanup
•Islip High School Catapult Team
•Patchogue-Medford High School Robotics Program
•Patchogue-Medford Youth
•Patchogue Lions Club Christmas in June
•Play for Peace Soccer Tournament
•Save-A-Pet Animal Rescue and Adoption Center
•School-Business Partnerships of Long Island
•Society of St. Vincent de Paul at St. Fancis Assisi Parish
•Sunrise Fund at Stony Brook University Medical Center
•Suffolk County Girl Scouts
Conserving The Future By Recycling The Past
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