Gershow Recycling’s Brooklyn Facility to Appear on August 3 Episode of “Scrappers”

July 27, 2010 - PRLog -- On August 3, Gershow Recycling will be featured in the premiere of Spike TV’s new show, “Scrappers.” The half-hour show is scheduled to air at 10 p.m.

Filmed entirely in Brooklyn, “Scrappers” is a comedic reality show featuring Brooklyn’s toughest scrap metal collectors. In each episode, three scrap metal crews, who are real-life friends and competitors, will find treasure in tons of twisted metal and test their relationships on the search for the big score. A segment of the inaugural episode finds these scrap collectors bringing their collected scrap to Gershow’s facility on Pitkin Avenue to see who comes away with the most money.

The colorful characters of this show include the Scrappers USA crew of Frankie Noots, the “Don of Scrap”, smooth-talking negotiator Joe Posa and Darren, who throws out the good metal and keeps the trash; the crew from P&F Service and Removal, consisting of Sal the Barber, who is training to be a mixed martial artist in between scrap runs, and Greg, his right-hand man and MMA training partner; and the Mad Scrappers, Mimmo and Dino, a slapdash crew who need to rent a van every day to search for scrap metal.

“Scrappers” can be seen on Channel 41 (Cablevision Long Island), Channel 56 (Cablevision Brooklyn), Channel 36 (Time Warner Queens/Brooklyn) and Channel 54/1505 (Verizon FiOS).

For more information about Gershow Recycling, call (631) 289-6188, or visit www.gershow.com.


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The cast of SPIKE TV’s “Scrappers” pose at Gershow Recycling’s facility in Brooklyn. Pictured (left to right): P&F Service and Removal Team Greg Dakoubanos and Sal “The Barber” Vasallo; Scrappers USA crew Joe Posa, Frankie “Noots” Fidilio and Darren Zerafa and Mad Scrappers Dino Mininni and Mimmo Saldino.
Photo credit:  Spike TV/Fernando Leon

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About Gershow Recycling
Started 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. Now with the second generation carrying on the legacy, Gershow generates over 750 jobs, contributing millions of dollars to local economy, while helping to preserve Long Island’s environment. Gershow Recycling takes aluminum, brass, copper, steel, cast iron, appliances, cars and vehicles. In keeping with its philosophy of “Preserving the Future by Recycling the Past,” Gershow Recycling purchases scrap metal that would have otherwise wound up in local landfills, and turns them into high-quality scrap products for recycling. The company produces both ferrous and non-ferrous products.