Facility details
- Address
- 538 Stewart Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11222 - Phone
- (718) 387-2077
- Google reviews
- See visitor reviews on Google
- Website
- empirerecycling.com
- Facility type
- Recycling
- County
- Kings County
- EPA Region
- 2
- Data sources
- EPA
- Last verified
- 2026-10-15
EPA record
Listed in the EPA Facility Registry: 110019737873
Programs on file: FIS 2-6101-00006
EPA record updated 2014-10-29
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
- Brooklyn C&D LLC Transfer Station 0.1 mi · Brooklyn, NY
- City Recycling Corp Recycling 0.1 mi · Brooklyn, NY
- Greymart Recovery Services Recycling 0.1 mi · New York, NY
- Waste Management - BQE Transfer Station Transfer Station 0.2 mi · Brooklyn, NY
- WMNY BQE Transfer Station Transfer Station 0.2 mi · Brookyn, NY
- Point Recycling Ltd Recycling 0.4 mi · Brooklyn, NY
- Wmny Review Transfer Station Transfer Station 0.4 mi · Long Island City, NY
- TNT Scrap MetalsRecycling 0.5 mi · Brooklyn, NY
- Cooper Tank and Welding Corp Metals 0.6 mi · Brooklyn, NY
- Maspeth Recycling Inc Recycling 0.7 mi · Maspeth, NY
Nearest landfill: Fountain Avenue LF, Brooklyn — 6.1 mi
Waste haulers nearby
- City Recycling Corp0.8 mi · Brooklyn, NY · 1 driver
- Astoria Carting Co Inc0.8 mi · Brooklyn, NY · 2 drivers
- Independence Carting Inc0.8 mi · Brooklyn, NY · 12 drivers
- Premier Sanitation LLC0.8 mi · Brooklyn, NY · 4 drivers
- National Junk Removal Inc0.8 mi · Brooklyn, NY · 1 driver
Area served
Serves Brooklyn, Maspeth, Sunnyside, Long Island City, Woodside, New York, Astoria, Middle Village, Ridgewood, Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, Rego Park.
County context
One of 46 recycling centers in Kings County, NY.
127 waste haulers in Kings County, NY.
ZIP 11222 at a glance
- Population
- 42,853 (10,868 per sq mi)
- Median age
- 35
- Households
- Median income $125,734 · 61% earn six figures
- Housing
- 18% owner-occupied · median home value $1,426,849 · median rent $2,659
- Workforce
- 81% labor-force participation · 7% unemployment
ZIP figures are US Census estimates for the ZIP area, not the company.
New York solid-waste agency: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)