J A Recycling

Its almost to the point where you don’t want to hassle and just stick your recycling in your county waste bin — but you are throwing away money when you do so.
Most of the local recycling places in the Elk Grove area have closed or have slow service, so after reading the reviews here, thought I would give this place a try.
Quick service, fair prices, friendly staff. I believe they are open every day except Sunday so you can’t go wrong.

Valdez Recycling — most recycling places in our area have closed recently so after going to two places that are no longer in business we ended up here. Drove right up, gentlemen helped us, he was friendly, gave us the $ and we were on our merry way. Yes, they speak Spanish but, they also speak English. What’s the problem? It’s not a debate meet, it’s just recycling.

I just came from this place they were very friendly I came with ten bags of recyclables a washing machine a dryer and other assorted metals they were fast and efficient they were slow so one of the workers helped me grab the bags and sort all my items I know it’s not his job to do so but I felt obligated to give him a 5 dollar tip big kudos to Valdez recycling it’s close to my house on a second note yeah they speak Spanish and I understand Spanish and all of what they say is not slander towards anybody and they don’t say hey scam this person or anything like that from what another person had wrote in a earlier post I will be coming back and keep giving them my business

I went today skeptical after reading reviews. The place was not J A Recycling, but Valdez Recycling. To start, it was SUPER clean. The ladies working were very nice and patient with me and my questions because the last place I went did not give what I felt I deserved. This time I counted out my bottles, cans, and plastic ahead of time knowing I should get $ 17.95 I walked out of there with $ 20.02! Score I will be coming back!

I’ve taken my cans and bottles to there for 2 yrs now and seems like they’ve been cheating me. The tare they calculate after they weighed everything, which accounts for the bins used to hold my cans, whatever water was in the cans, was about half of the initial weight. Didn’t bother asking much because they spoke spanish mainly and probably didn’t understand when I asked basic questions. I just took it like a loser they thought I was. It’s $ 2 a pound, but I feel I could’ve got a higher amount at $ 1.70 other places charge.

normally i go to nexcycle on bond and elk grove florin rd but they were closed today, «Thursday» i have brought them 8 full bags in the past and walked away with $ 68 to day i went to these grimy lying cheaters J A recycling with 13 full bags and they gave me a measly $ 46, they speak mostly Spanish but i understood everything they said, one guy told the other to lie to me and give me less money and worse prices on everything i brought there. they were both unaware i knew Spanish also, they purposefully cheated me and i knew they were doing it. i should have left with at least $ 80, DO NOT GO HERE, THEY WILL DELIBERATELY CHEAT YOU AND POCKET THE MONEY THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED. the guy went in back and got some money he put what looked like around $ 25 in his pocket «there were some ones too» and then gave me what was left, the $ 46, he wore dark shades because i know a coward like this cant look a person in the eye while they cheat them, he was hiding of course behind them. next time i will wait for nexcycle to open they are the only fair and honest place i have been for recycling. J A recycling claims they pay you $ 2lb for cans but in reality they paid me 00.97lb and i would have received the honest $ 1.87 from next cycle. but if you are looking to be cheated and ripped of J A is the place to go