rePLANET

This place is an awful experience for recycling. The staff is never on time when it comes to opening at the posted time or when it comes to returning from their lunches, which is also posted on their facility. The one positive thing I can say about this place is that the staff is friendly, that’s it. Other than that, you can expect to wait in line for 30 – 60 min. Also, they don’t even give the most for what you can get! I’ll heavily recommend finding another recycling center!

A man approached the guy working here today wondering if the place was open. To which the worker answered sarcastically «what day is it today?» and then the customer asked again if the place was open to which the guy working there today answered «does it look open?» the customer walked away and left emberrassed. So rude! I wish I would have said something about his tone, but nobody else did either. I work in customer service and no matter how shitty your day is or what people ask, you always respond with respect. This place hardly ever has nice workers.

4^th time coming here. The guy working here seems very chill and laid back, which frustrates people like me that’s waiting for an hour…
I usually just give all my cans and bottles to whoever is next to me in line.

Bad! The employees are super rude especially this guy that is always there saturday and sunday mornings. There is better ways to speak to people. I don’t want to get into details but go somewhere else.

Tristan is fast, friendly, patient & informative. Thank you for taking the time to go through the process and the pricing with this first-​timer. I truly appreciate your assistance.
Downside: Only one self-​service machine was working. Seems to be like that in many locations. I tried to go to 2 other locations yesterday and was unsuccessful.

This place is horrible. They should build a shadow for people. Standing under the sun being a BBQ and waiting for the long line.

Worst recycli king place ever! The sign shows the take plastic and they won’t accept any plastic bottles! Such bullshit!

Had bad experience at Alhambra re planet recycling center. So did some of the other customer’s. one of the employees whose name was Michael. Was drunk, rude with the customers. He stagers when walks and smells like liquor. One woman was offended by his presence and left. To bad re planet doesn’t check up on there employees. Not going there again :(

This place is the worst! Very slow, rude people and even when there’s enough time to help people they take an early lunch and tell everyone they’ll be back 10 – 20 mins after their post time. That is ridiculous!
There’s very little shade, usually busy, please avoid coming here unless you really have to. I come here often and honestly I haven’t had one good experience.

August 14, 2014
Bad experience today. Complaint sent.
* Lunch break sign posted 1:00 to 1:30 p.m. but the two employees did not return from lunch until 2:20 p.m. I saw them leave the recycling center for lunch at 1:05 p.m.
* The two employees left the only functioning RVM full before going to lunch, thus leaving many people unable to use any machines for recycling. Many people had to wait until employees arrived back from their long lunch.
–Why is there always only one RV Machine functioning? Last time I was here, it was only the left RVM that was working. And now after two weeks, it’s the right side that’s working but the left machine is not. It begs the question:
* Are they purposely turning off one RVM so there’s only one functioning and so people will then be forced to redeem with the weighted value?
* Keep in mind there’s always someone using the RVM ahead of you with literally two shopping carts of recyclable baggage that they’re slowly putting one-​by-​one into that machine. Who has time to wait for that? Unfortunately, the weighted redemption takes out 40% of value (I had 200 plastic water bottles, that’s $ 0.05 each, which should be $ 10, but I ended up receiving only $ 6 from the weighted value.)

Like another Unilocaler has mentioned, this place does not abide by posted hours. 4:30 closing does not mean you must be here before then, but that you must be completely done, tallied up & leaving. Because the employees are too.

So here’s the full story on this rePLANET. I’ve been waiting here with my younger brother since 8:40AM. We called customer service who said they would open at 9:30. They finally opened up around 10:00AM which is one hour later than posted!
We have been holding our spot since 8:40AM and because they opened up late and discovered that one of their machines isn’t working so now everyone’s mad. Luckily we chose the working side but one of the attendants decided to put us on the spot and ask if we would let others ahead of us. Unfortunately we all have lives and things to do and we’ve been here an hour and a half before you guys actually opened. So the older gentleman puts us on blast and sees if we’ll agree to letting others jump ahead but because we naturally looked frustrated from the wait, he goes and condescendingly yells, «let’s see who’s educated» implying that we’re being a$$holes for not letting the others through. I’m sorry but given the circumstances if the tables were the other way around then no one would allow us to go ahead so honorable or not I’m holding the spot that I’ve held for what is about to reach 2 hours now and if you don’t like it, tough $ 4!+!
I just don’t appreciate how the attendant has to put us on blast so negatively for doing what anyone else would’ve done. This will be the last time I go to this rePLANET. It’s sad that you open up an hour late, have a broken machine, and have the audacity to put two of your loyal customers down for reasons out of their control. Get your $ 4!+ together rePLANET!!!

Fast and easy with their dedicated area and very friendly and helpful employees. 1000 times better than the one in Monterey Park at Ralphs!!!

I like the Glendale location best. The scale has been broken the past couple times I have gone here. Employees are helpful though. There is always a long line for both self-​serving machines because of the scale being out of order.

if you have all day, you can wait for the machine. otherwise, just separate your recycleables in the big blue garbage can bins and take them to the scale. you might not get as much $$$ back, but the guy is quick and polite. you get a receipt that you have to take to Albertsons (at the other end of the parking lot) to get cash back.

today, I brought in a trash bag and a half, about 6 lbs, of aluminum cans, they were very dry, i knew because these were older cans that dried and collected dust. However, after walking away with my redemption ticket, i noticed the guy working there reduced the $/​lbs by 20%!!! he did check if my cans were wet and it dripped very, very little amount if any. I suspect he automatically reduces, Beware! I only went here today because I needed to go to homedepot. I’m going to stick with the valley blvd and new ave one for now on, the person there was friendly and /​or polite both times i’ve been there.
btw, I didn’t even redeem my cash today, I went into albertsons to see 3+ people in each of the three lines, I’m not waiting 10+ minutes for $ 7. I’ll find time when it’s not busy.

The best way to make some money from your trash is to recycle it! All those beer bottles and soda cans lying around can easily turn into a burrito or large fries… magically with the help of a recycling center nearby, such as rePLANET.
There are over 400 of these conveniently located centers — usually near supermarkets — in California, and the one we went to today was no exception. Just recycle your stuff and claim your money at the Albertsons a mere 30 seconds away.
There are two ways to turn your trash into gold. You can sort it out and give it to the recycling employee, or you can feed uncrushed cans and bottles through the machine one by one and watch your payout grow! With a hit of the green button on the machine, your receipt is printed and cha-​ching! Money collection time.
It’s really easy (unless there is a line or the person in front of you has a ton of crap). So easy that I’m almost tempted to rummage through trash cans for some free money. Almost.