Valley Recycling Center

They are not paying the full CRV which anything above 24 ounces at $ 0.10 in specified containers is required by law in the State of California as stated here;
Therefore be advised of the formal complaint address email as complaints to


or simply contact the office directly at 1−800-RECYCLE to advise the state.
In my situation they were simply pushing people through as fast as possible ripping them off along the way.

So easy and get paid! Bring gloves as you’ll dump your items into their preweighed bins.

It’s a recycling center so yes you can recycle but don’t expect these guys to be friendly.

Perfect! Drove in Saturday morning around 830. Had no idea what I was doing but everyone was really helpful. The process is very easy drive up in the right lane and park, ask for bins for your different recyclable materials, separate all of your recyclables, weigh them, get back into car drive around to the front with the receipt you get from the weigh in and get paid. Warning do not park on scale when taking receipt back for payment in front, the scales are for big trucks full of the same thing being recycled.

I don’t know if recycling centers are supposed to have good service, but the service here SUCKS! No one told me how their system works so I literally stood around waiting for someone to help. Finally, after 15 minutes some guy came out and just told me plastic in one bin and glass in another, or at least that’s what I thought I heard.
When I came back to him to have him weigh my items, he made me feel like a complete idiot for putting the plastic in a bin. Apparently it was supposed to go into something else. As he sees me lifting a big ass trash can to dump my bottles into an even bigger bin, he just literally stands there and watches. Uhhh… a little help jerk!!!
I ended up making $ 2 that day. If i didn’t laugh this experience off, I might just start crying so lets stick with «hahahha that was a funny experience»
Overall
I’m gonna put some work into finding a different recycling center before being forced to come back here
Tip:
Located behind the Lamps Plus

Location: Signage is not clear if you are entering the location off of Plummer.
Heading East on Plummer: Make a right turn into the Lamps Plus parking lot and go all the way to the back. The Valley Recycling Center (VRC) building will be on your right.
Park next to the building and take your items to be recycled in the back lot past the front desk that looks like a drive thru window.
There should be a guy in the back that will ask you to place your items in one of the wire bins so he can weigh them. He will give you a receipt with the gross and net weight for your items. Take the receipt to the front desk to get your money.
Proprietors were a bit rude at first when I pulled up to the front, but after I came back with the receipt they were helpful.

Living in Chatsworth and passing down Plummer St, I had no idea this place existed. I had a few bags of aluminum cans, plastic bottles, bimetal cans… all of which were weighed and recycled at the Valley Recycling center.
There is a drive through area where you unload your items, place them in specific baskets. They are weighed, you are given a receipt. you follow the path of the drive through and present your receipt to the cashier lady and she gives you your $$$$.
Great place to recycle.

Unilocal! is wrong about the closing time on Saturdays. Today they were apparently closing at 4/3:45 (depending on who you asked).
I got there at 3:45 and had to ask where to go. The people were rushing me along like crazy, and when I finally got to the back where I was apparently supposed to drop off the stuff, I guess I was in the wrong place or pulled in incorrectly or something. I have no idea, though. The guy working wouldn’t tell me. Maybe he thought his accent was too strong, but seriously I would have been able to understand him had he vocalized what he wanted me to do. Instead he kept making these hand motions that I couldn’t determine the meaning of. He wanted me to move my car, but I don’t work with trucks, so I have no idea what his hand signals meant, and he just kept repeating them again and again. I’d ask him «what do you want me to do?» and he’d just make the damn hand motions. When a guy standing next to him started laughing, I just thought «screw this» and I left.
I was going to just throw the stuff in my recycle bin at home (it was literally one garbage bag of stuff, so I don’t really care about the money), but I had to stop at Whole Foods anyway, so I just went to the recycling place in the Whole Foods parking lot while I was there (which is open till 5pm on Saturdays).
This place is way too complicated for what should be a simple process, and the people working were rude. Definitely not going back.

Thank you fellow Unilocaler’s for showing me the light and leading me towards Recycle Heaven. The people here were really friendly. They set me up with my three little separate bins for aluminum/​glass/​plastic and did so joyfully.

Needed a place to recycle the water bottles and soda cans we have. Great place to go. Finally a recycle facility where the staff treats you with respect. No matter if you show up pushing a shopping cart or drive your Ferrari onto the lot, the staff treats you with courtesy, kindness, patience and respect. They are clean too… Thank God…

Searched far and wide (on Google Maps) to find a damn recycling center and NOTHING legitimate. Everything closes at 2 or something completely ridiculous. Found this place here on Unilocal and man am I grateful!
I’ve been to several recycling centers and none have been as pleasant of an experience as this one. Honest, I know it sounds crazy! (which reminds me to review the Simi Valley location…) It’s located sort of behind some other buildings, but definitely not impossible to find. There’s a big sign off of the street too, so as long as you’re observant and thorough, you should be fine. There are yellow arrows that wrap around the building to direct you where to go also, which was helpful for me, as there are several different places to go for different services.
I was directed to drive through a gate and was pointed towards the back of the area, where there were 2 men who guided me to back up to commence with the sorting process. There weren’t many employees, but there wasn’t a lot of traffic either. Maybe 3 other people here recycling. I really liked the set up and it was quite organized. To my surprise, it wasn’t stinky or depressing to be here either! Being the person I am, I couldn’t just stand by and watch these guys do my dirty work, sorting through the debris of my partying. So I helped em’ out! We separated the cans, plastics, ect. Even though there was a language barrier, the dudes and I shot the shit and had some laughs :) The guy I was working with even complimented my «bonita hair», aaaawh.
They put my bins back in my piece of shit car and handed me my ticket. I was directed in the way of the yellow arrows to an alley that wrapped around the building and to a weigh scale with a window. Park past the weigh scale, go to the window to present your ticket and get your reward for contributing to the earth and community by recycling! I love this location and the people who work here. Yay recycling! :)
Came wielding 2 13 gallon (yes, that’s small) garbage cans, a milk crate full and 3 paper bags (sounds like a lot but I don’t think it really is) worth of cans/​glass/​plastics. Walked out with $ 7.

After my usual recycling place moved to a different location, I wasn’t going to just stop recycling… so I googled it, and Valley Recycling Center is my new place to go.
I usually go to the place with the best prices, and I’ve been looking for a center that recycles paper too… well, I guess I hit the jackpot. Valley Recycling takes my newspapers AND printer paper, and ofcourse my bottles and cans.
Sweeeeet. I love (getting paid) to help save the environment.