Our Commitment to Environmental Compliance

At Niagara Metals, we are committed to responsible and environmentally safe operating procedures and practices through our compliance with all applicable local, state, and federal regulatory requirements.

  • Niagara Metals meets and exceeds all Department of Environmental Conservation stormwater / runoff requirements.
  • We are a registered Department of Motor Vehicles dismantling facility. Our facility # is: 7104997. (Automobiles accepted at our Niagara Falls facility only.)
  • All of our trucks meet or exceed Department of Transportation requirements.
  • We are a New York State certified scrap processor, collector, and car crusher.

    Scrap Metal Materials We Accept

    Ferrous

    • Obsolete equipment
    • Appliances
    • Automobiles (NF facility only)
    • Beams
    • Baling clips
    • Busheling
    • Cable, fence & wire
    • Cast iron
    • Construction equipment
    • Demolition scrap
    • Farm machinery
    • Industrial scrap steel
    • Prepared #1 & #2 heavy melt
    • Prepared plate & structural
    • Sheet metal
    • Structural beams
    • Skeleton Scrap
    • Light Iron
    • Tin
    • Coils
    • Large machinery
    • Oversized steel

    Non-Ferrous

    • Aluminum cans
    • Aluminum extrusions
    • Cast aluminum
    • Painted siding
    • Sheet aluminum
    • Aluminum/copper radiators
    • Red brass
    • Yellow brass
    • Bronze
    • Mixed brass
    • Refinery brass
    • Catalytic converters
    • Copper #1 & #2
    • Insulated/clean copper wiring #1 & # 2
    • Mixed Insulated copper wire
    • Electric motors
    • Heater cores
    • Scrap lead
    • Radiators
    • Stainless steel-nickel alloys
    • High temp alloys
    • Transmissions
    • #1 copper
    • #2 copper
    • Light copper

    Scrap Metal Materials We Do Not Accept

    • Acetylene cylinders
    • Asbestos containing material (i.e. insulated pipe and transited concrete fiber board)
    • Back up power supply units
    • Ballasts
    • Capacitors
    • Cathode ray tubes
    • Closed compressed gas cylinders
    • Closed containers of any kind
    • Computer monitors
    • Containers with free-flowing liquids inside or outside (tar, oil, gasoline)
    • Items containing mercury
    • Flammable or combustible material
    • Fluorescent light bulbs
    • Fluorescent light ballasts
    • Material containing refrigerants
    • Munitions, bullets, military target range scrap, explosives
    • Microwave ovens
    • Paint cans
    • Pressure regulating valves
    • Radioactive material
    • Thermometers
    • Thermostats
    • Tin cans
    • TVs