Looking for Markets?

May 31, 2012

Check out the Free Northeast Regional Recycling Markets Database. The Recycling Markets Database is a valuable tool for helping residents, municipalities, and businesses in the Northeast find places that reuse, recycle, and compost materials they no longer need or want. The database provides free access to more than 1,400 reuse, recycling, and composting facilities and service providers.

Searching the Database is quick and easy. Users can search by material type, geography, or by business type (e.g., processor, hauler, broker, end-user). The Database offers 17 primary, searchable material categories, ranging from electronics to organics. Each primary category is subdivided into secondary material types to allow for refined searches, with more than 150 secondary material categories. From paper to pallets, cell phones to plastics, you'll find it listed on the Recycling Markets Database. Even outlets for "hard-to-recycle" items, such as mattresses, or unusual items like wine corks, or materials requiring special handling like solvents and paints, can be found on the database. Reuse and recycling markets for industrial by-products and other business-specific materials, such as catalytic converters, foundry sand, and dental amalgam are also included.

Besides helping to locate outlets for material generators, the NY Recycling Markets Database helps those listed access materials they need in the quality and quantities preferred. In today's economic climate, this type of resource provides positive returns to both the suppliers and end-users of recovered materials, spurring a strong business climate for recycling while ensuring reduced disposal and waste management costs for generators, as well as access to reasonably priced raw materials for manufacturers. It increases the visibility and viability of recycling, reuse and composting businesses, while helping preserve the environment.

The Recycling Markets Database is sponsored by New York Empire State Development's Environmental Services Unit (ESD ESU) and compiled and maintained by the Northeast Recycling Council, Inc. (NERC). For more information and to get your business, organization, or municipality listed, contact Athena Lee Bradley, NERC's Projects Manager.