Replanet Recycling

This place has been a huge disappointment in terms of service and availability of machines on most visits here. One machine is always broken leaving customers having to wait for 45min+ for one machine.
The location seems to now also be overflowing and becoming overcapacity of cans/​bottles which is leading to storage of piles outside.
It’s almost they stopped caring about this location which is leading to a huge upset on customers in the walnut community having to venture out to further locations just to recycle.

Bottom line: come with the anticipation to wait in line for 45+ minutes.
I swear people who come here collect their recycling for 10 years before they do their recycling!!! I don’t understand how every time i come the people in front of me each have 10+ bags (ok, i’m exaggerating… but it feels like it…)!!! One time I came here with the idea that i would be in and out in 20 minutes — I could have not been more naïve… If you want to be first in line when it opens at 10am, you need to get here 30mins-​1 hour before it opens.
However, my biggest grievance is that they have a sign that clearly says they take NON-​CRV bottles (i even made sure they are clear plastic /​glass), but they always refuse mine, and throw away mine (so just leave those at your home recycling bin instead if you want to be environmentally friendly).
Also, previous reviewers say that they give patrons cash at the site: that’s no longer true. They give you a voucher to redeem at the Vons next door.

So I visited at 12:40pm. 2 people ahead of me. I start to unload my boxes of recycle and the guy tells me it was full and come back in 2 hours. So I say ok, 2 hours? Now I go eat lunch, then about 1:40 I head back, noting that their lunch began at 1pm and ended at 1:30pm. Lo and behold there’s 6 people now waiting. The same guy recognizes me and says «we have room now just wait in line for your turn.» Each person has about 6 trash bags or more.
So I get in my car and will try another location. Number one, if you gotta close for lunch fine. If you gotta compact the container fine. But if your gonna make me wait 2 hours– then tell me I gotta wait again– this time for another hour to or 2 you’ll have better luck eating glass and recycling it out your ass.

Went there this morning and had a group of people and I waiting 2 hours (others 3) until they had us relocate to another recycle center. Not cool… Do not recommend this center at all.

I came here three times and every time I had to go back home «full» handed. Either they went lunch without telling people that have been waiting in advance, or the recycling center was full of plastic. Again without notifying people in advance. Why make people wait? Naturally I end up going elsewhere during work days and shop there instead, not the Vons near this recycling center. They need to do something about this location

If I can give these people a negative star I would. This place is totally unreliable when it comes to hours and too cashing in your recyclables. Today I came in and was told that they were not accepting glass until who knows when. THATS BS! Then if thats not bad enough. I can have 5 pieces of plastic or glass and they only give you ½ a cent. WTH is ½ a cent. These people do some shady business.

If u could give it negative stars I would.
1 star is too generous.
I waited in line for 45 minutes and the employee decided to close because it was his lunch time. I understand he needs to break for lunch, but the right thing to do would be to let patrons waiting in line know that you won’t be able to help them before they start their wait.
There were 3 other people behind me and he had seen that we were all in line, but said nothing.
I asked him why he didn’t let us know before we started waiting.
He said, «I take lunch at 1.» put his earplugs on and walked away!
Unbelievable. Total disregard of common courtesy.
I waited for him to return and I explained to him that I have already waited for 45 minutes.
He shrugged his shoulders, and said a half-​hearted sorry.
I did call the # listed and informed them of the level of customer service and was assured someone would be calling me. I’ve yet to hear back.

My go-​to place to hand feed recyclables or weigh them when I don’t have the time. There is always a line of older people looking to cash in on mountains of recyclables they look like they’ve been collecting for years. Of course, hand-​feeding takes a ridiculously long time and with slower moving elderly people it could be an all day thing. Aside from the patrons, the workers all seem to have a lot of patience especially with all the bickering that happens because everyone is waiting. I’ve never had any issues and just try to get in and out. Plus, they pay you on the spot for your recycles. There is no need to redeem a voucher at another location.

No one is at this location. Its 230pm?! Nobody working? Just two senior citizens there waiting for service and wanting to purchase your bags of bottles and cans except they only speak Chinese and they will approach you if you speak their language. lol

You can exchange the ticket for money right the way without going to the big store. The staff are nice, no long lines! Highly recommended!!!

Unlike some other «Re-​planet Recycling» venues, after recycling, you have to print your vouch and take it elsewhere to redeem, however, here they have a staff on-​site to cash that out for you. The hours of operations is from 10am-4:30pm from Tuesday-​Saturday, but note, that’s for weighing your items to recycle only, not for the machines, if you get there exactly at 10am, you’ll be standing around staring into space, before you sight the sign «Machine Hours of Operation: 10:30am-4:30pm». Bring disposable gloves, your own items to recycle may be rinsed, but not all people do so, leaving machines all sticky. If you have the time to spare with no wait in line, I suggest feeding the bottles into the machines yourself instead of weighing it, since there is a difference, however the difference isn’t worth the wait if there is someone before you (depending on how much they’re feeding into the machines). I always recycled at home with the weekly Waste Management pick up, but might as well get back some of the CR-​Vs you paid for. Since my recycle venture to Re-​Planet Recycling started, my coworkers have started their recycling at work/​home and giving me their empty bottles, not what I had in mind, but eh, at least it’s a positive for Team Planet.

Recycle. It’s not just a word or a reminder that you are a bad friend to Mother Earth. A habit long ingrained into me before there was a green movement or it was hip to be eco-​chic. Saving the daily commuting containers to recycle and ensuring every container purchased was recyclable. Pre-​sorting your trash for curbside recycling and running (daily exercise) the remainder of oversized to recycling centers. Why bother with the extra effort? If I need a carton of essentials (milk, eggs, bread) the cash from running or bicycling my recyclables pays off in maintaining a healthy heart rate and paying for these small items, with the bonus of keeping the landfills in check. Did you know a carton of milk in one hand are great weights for keeping muscle tone? Not so much the eggs.

It’s hidden in the far corner between Vons and Ninja Sushi. This location is better than the one in the Albertson’s Plaza on Amar and the employees here are much nicer. They do everything that the other rePlanets do, but they can count your bigger glass and plastic bottles here to put more money in your pocket. Weighing the small cans and bottles are not really worth it here, it’s just better to feed it to the machine. Also, you are paid by the employee versus having to go all the way into the market to exchange your ticket for cash, which is nice.
This location is just better, not much to complain about.
Recycling does everybody good! So get to it! =]
Hours:
Tuesday-​Saturday: 10:00 AM — 4:30 PM
Sunday, Monday: Closed