Lincoln’s Recycling Center

I decided to try this place instead of the Nexcycle in the Safeway parking lot at Calvine and EG Florin Road based on the Unilocal reviews. I was not disappointed. The employee helped me dump my bottles and cans into the garbage bins very swiftly and I walked out with my cash in about 10 minutes.
Nexcycle is a fine establishment, but invariably I had to wait a long time for my turn, and many times the proprietor informed me (politely! Odi is a really nice guy) that he had ran out of room for cans, bottles, plastic, whatever, and I’d have to come back another day. Not something you want to repeat, hauling smelly, sticky bags into your car.

Woah! Best recycling place I’ve ever been to.
I usually go to the recycling place where Savemart is. Elk Grove Florin and Bond Rd I believe? But I read some reviews where this place does the sorting out for you and gives you a good amount for what you’ve recycled. So I decided to give this place a try.
And it was completely right! My dad and I brough 2 full garbage bags of bottles to recycle, and we received $ 15 for it. Not bad for two bags. AND you can keep the caps on the bottles! Most recycling centers make you take the caps off, but not this place.
The whole process took about 10 minutes. I’ve never experienced such a short time to recycle! It’s also very clean unlike most recycling centers. Just be careful of the bees here, there’s a lot of them.
I’ll definitely be coming back here!

I had mostly a good experience here. I’ve only been here once so far, but the one time I was here I had mostly aluminum cans and plastic bottles. I only had 5 glass bottles and the guy said he’ll just pay out per bottle. So everything was going great until I went in line to get my money. There was a glass barrier between me and the woman who I had to give my receipt to. She didn’t say anything but was really rushing the process. I signed the paper that she slid under the glass and then realized that it said I brought 3 glass bottles instead of 5. The customer after me stood next to me instead of behind me and she was already taking his receipt so I just left. All of the other staff were helpful besides her. I know it was a woman because of her acrylic nails.

I’ve been going here since 2012 when they were still fairly new. All the employees are polite and courteous, they accept almost anything, and the yard is laid out nicely. An added bonus is they are off a major road, so I don’t have to make a special trip just to recycle a few bins of old bottles and cans.
They used to be a full-​service facility, but it seems the last few times I went, I had to sort my items by myself regardless of the time. Still, a great place with good customer service that I would recommend to anyone.

Finally a place where I wasn’t nervous about getting out of the car. The staff was very nice and friendly.
Wasn’t very busy early on a Friday and I will only be coming here from now on.

i love it here. The people who work there are always happy to assist you and the pay is good.

There are many other recycling places closer to my home, but I will make the longer trip to come to Lincoln’s. Like many of the other reviews, it is very clean, staff helps unload/​sort and they share very useful information on how best to sort items – this give me the tools to better sort at home makes it much easier when the time comes to turn in recycling. I go once a year at the end of each year. I had 14 bags of plastic, four bags of aluminum and approximately three bags of glass. My total take home was $ 255.24! This exceeded my expectations! I’ve been recommending Lincoln’s to others – best in town!

I dropped off some rusted metal bed frames for the first time here. It was fairly busy with customers unloading their bottles and cans, one car sorting out metal pieces onto a pulley, and vehicles moving loads in the back.
The good:
It’s close by, and open on Saturdays.
It took a while to figure out what I needed to do with my load, but once I got helped, the guys were nice enough to very carefully help me take the metal out of my trunk.
Good to know:
There are empty garbage bins for sorting the beverage containers, but I had scrap metal. For those loads, you drive up the ramp to the red scale. Someone will come by and write down your weight on a paper. Then you drive down the ramp and unload on the left, where someone else marks what you unloaded on that same paper. You go back to get reweighed again, and take the paper to the cashier office to get paid.
You will need your ID and thumb (I assume it’s to prevent metal theft). For about 3 – 4 old bed frames that I needed to clean out of my garage, I got $ 2.40 back.
Would I come back? Probably, it’s convenient and I definitely need to clear out more things.
Happy Recycling!

After collecting bottles and cans for a few weeks I was looking to exchange it out for cash. As a midtown resident I usually end up at the recycle center next to the safeway on Alhambra. Even though close, I found the process painful. Therefore I decided to take the drive to Lincoln.
Overall the experience was improved. They were busy so I had to wait but they were helping 5 other customers at once so already a huge plus from my previous experiences. Because of this there was a wait, which alone would not was not a problem. It was the number of wasps that were swarming everywhere. My only recommendation is to wear long sleeves and pants.
I did get much more for my products then previous experiences and even though it is a 15 min drive I probably will be back. Nice to walk away with cash instead of a receipt that I have to take to safeway to cash.

this place is awesome been coming to this recycling place for a while now and it is the best one out of all of sacramento highly recommended. The staff is very friendly and willing to help get your money very quickly

Lincolns Recycling is great! It’s clean, easy to pull in and unload and they also are very quick at sorting your recyclables! I actually found them from searching on Unilocal when in need of some extra gas money and had plastic and cans overflowing and needed to unload — $ 22 later and I’m a happy camper! I am sure if you try this center you’ll be back! Good people — good business!

I’ve been to Lincoln’s a few times and it’s always a great experience.
I pull up to Lincoln’s and the guys, yes more than one, come out and help me unload, sort if needed and quickly weigh everything up. They are really nice and even smile and joke around.
I get to wash my hands with soap and water when we’re done and then walk away with cash.
The whole thing takes like ten minutes. It’s worth the drive up EG Florin Road from Elk Grove, in fact, I drive past the recycling kiosks where people are lined up in the hot sun waiting to shove their cans and bottles into a little hole and laugh while shouting, «Fools! You’re all fools!»
I highly recommend taking your recyclables to Lincoln’s.

I went there for my 1^st time today. I read reviews from many others saying that workers there sort your stuff for you. Well, it’s not completely true. I think a guy started helping me sort my stuff when I was about 40% done and he didn’t stick around most of the rest of the time. I’m assuming because they didn’t have enough workers around at the time (late Monday morning).
I like 3 things about this place: 1) they have a big parking lot and can serve multiple customers simultaneously sorting (because they have lots of black bins and lots of parking spaces) 2) they pay you for scrap metals, scrap plastics, and scrap glass. Mind you they don’t pay much per pound for these items, but it’s better than nothing. 3) the machine that they use for calculating the payment keeps track of everything for you assuming the attendant pushes the right buttons (so you don’t have to be weary of people’s math like at those other recycling places).
My 300ZX was stuffed to the brim w/​stuff in the passenger seat, back seats, and trunk. I came away w/​almost $ 30.
Would I come back? Absolutely. But I don’t know if I’ll keep bringing the scraps since they don’t yield much payment and take up lots of space.

This place rocks! After waiting 45 minutes in the hot sun in a Safeway parking lot, I got tired of waiting and left. I figured I’d give this place a try. An employee named Anthony, came out to my car, and helped me separate my glass bottles. I was out of there in about 10 minutes! I’ll be back!

My boyfriend and I decided to check out Lincoln’s Recycling today after seeing all of the great reviews. We generally go to J&L Recycling but seeing that Lincoln’s sorts FOR you, well we had to check it out.
As other reviewers said, this has to be one of the cleanest recycling center’s I’ve seen. As you pull in the workers will direct you to where to unload and help you put all the recycling into the containers. This center isn’t completely hands off like some of the other reviews had me believing. However as previously mentioned the workers do the sorting for you, you just have to help unload your bags into the cans.
As much as I enjoyed my experience here, they get a ⁴⁄₅. While not having to actually sort the recycling is great it seemed that they don’t pay as well as J&L. Our last recycling trip we netted about 80 $ with mostly cans and some glass. This trip to Lincoln’s we had more recycling overall with a lot more of it being glass and we got the same amount as our last trip with less. I guess consider the loss a convenience fee for not having to sort?
Overall a good place to go to recycle your stuff. If you’re ok with not getting paid as much but also not having to sort it yourself then this is definitely the place for you.

Went to Lincoln’s Recycling Center this past Monday. Pretty quiet for a Monday afternoon and I had to hunt down the attendant, but once I did he was friendly and helpful, bringing the bins over to my car and loading them. I didn’t have much to recycle as I don’t have a lot of space to store recyclables, but I turned out to have enough to get a little over $ 7, which made me happy. Looks like it’s gonna be TWO items off the dollar menu today AND a big drink!

You can’t find a cleaner recycling place in Sacramento. Just back your vehicle into the drop-​off area and the attendants will take out and separate all of your items. You don’t have to touch anything… except the money! Their payout is great as well.

I JUST left this place and it took less than 5 minutes! Right when we drove up they were already directing us where to go and were ready to help us right when we stepped out of the car! They helped us even sort everything! Very good service, fast and efficient! BEST RECYCLING SERVICE I’ve ever been too.

GO and RECYCLE HERE!!!
My husband is so happy about this place he called me on the phone as he was leaving Lincoln’s Recycling center! He could not believe how fast, efficient and friendly this place is! We usually bring our recyclables to those strip-​mall parking lot stations and it usually takes him forever since he has to do all the work but not here. He pulled in and they helped him right away. He took in 7 huge 45gal. garbage bags filled with plastic bottles and was done after 5 minutes. From now on this will be the only place we will go to! Thank you fellow Unilocalers for the tip!

This recycling center has great prices. The workers are very helpful and approachable. Once you pull into the recycling center, they help you sort your recycling immediately. The place is clean, the service is fast, and the workers are friendly. Definitely will be coming back.