Gardena Recycling Center

Came here before and recycled our cans and such. Now when we visit the place again, they said they only take CA CRV’s only! — Like seriously WTF moment?! Now we have to go find elsewhere to recycle the other little sh*t stain few of a cans/​bottles we have left that they wouldn’t take SMH Waste of time. Just going to go home with what I have and save it for another time. Gonna call in the other places next time before I leave home to make sure.

Clean and safe environment with super fast Nd friendly service. I usually go to Re-​Planet but this place is much faster and more convenient.

Cool center. They take plastic, glass, and cardboard. They even pay per lb. I didnt have much just wanted to clean out my house. It was quick and easy ! Staff is very friendly too.

So stupid… you can only come if you have a car. And you need an iD. For what? I have no idea. No one helps new customers to separate their things. The sign says stainless steel but the guy tried to discourage me from getting mines weighed because he said it’s too cheap. No communication. Good luck homeless people because they’re excluding them by limiting their customers to cars only. So stupid. Never coming back here.

This place was quick and the front desk woman was… very nice. :)

I’ve been here 3 times, the first 2 were pretty good, they helped me sort out some of my metal scraps and unload the car. BUT my last visit was horrible. I will never return here. I guess its because my first 2 visits had items worth value (copper, aluminum, stainless steel), but my last visit was mostly scrap metal, i think maybe 2 cents a pound. When I asked the guy for help, he looked at my stuff and told me that he doesn’t even want to bother with it. He will bring a dumpster and I can throw away the items here. I was a little appalled, and I was tired from loading up at least 500lbs of it into my van, so I said I will just throw them away. WELL THANKS FOR TAKING MY METAL FOR FREE, even if it was $ 10 bucks or something, he could have at least weighed it and paid me for it, instead of telling me to throw away my «trash» here or take it somewhere else. He was giving me attitude too and trying to rush me saying «you want the dumpster or not? your wasting my time» when it wasn’t even busy.
I’ll take his advice next time and take my metal elsewhere.

This place is Clean! The premises are very, very, clean and well kept — — - not like the other recycling places!
They take many kinds of metal, for instance, my brother-​in-​law just moved into a house and we were cleaning outside on the side of the house. Someone had replaced the shower doors and left the aluminum tracks to the doors dumped on the side of the house. I brought those in to Gardena Recycling Center and they were worth $ 2.
It’s not just the money, it’s the fact that whatever you take to them gets recycled and doesn’t end up in the dump.
P. S. I took some old copper pipes and some other metal items at my first visit and walked away with $ 19!!!
You can take regular redeemables, like water bottles and tin cans here also.
So clean out your backyard and your garage! Then your neighbor’s & friend’s garage… and bring all that metal junk here! Get Busy!
Thomas the Train