The Miramar Recycling Center

If you take anything copper there you are immediately assumed you must have stole it. The joy of getting 30 $ for a piece of copper wire immediately went away after needing to show a drivers license, three signatures on various forms, finger prints, them getting your plate number off your car, and verifying you address by mailing a check to you in three days all over a little 30 $ piece of wire. What’s next? Maybe a full cavity search next time?

I had a lot of plastic bottles for my sons school and when I took it here they said I had 124 lbs!!! Good news… nope! In CA you can only recycle 100 lbs at a time (so they said)… so I said, «OK, then I will do the 100 lbs and take back the 24 lbs» … nope, can’t do that! Huh??? No, we can’t take just the 100 ls because you brought it all??? WHAT seriously??? This does not make sense??? I honestly think they were being shady and wanted me to just give up and leave it all. They seemed surprised when I said «Yes, weigh it and give it back». So they weighed out 124lbs (while the line got longer and longer waiting them to do this) and and GAVE IT BACK to me! Told me to come again and only bring 100lbs at a time… WTF — are you kidding me??? Worst customer service ever! I get it if the law says you can only recycle 100lbs a day… but why not let me us recycle the 100lbs… It was not my recycling to just surrender, it was for a school donation. So yes, we went back the NEXT day and guessed what would be close to 100lbs and recycled that. WILL NEVER GO BACK!!! Took the remaining bottles to another recycler.

Should have read the reviews before going. These people are pretty sketchy. I recycled a bunch of aluminum from a construction project. Got paid 10 cents a lb. for «contaminated aluminum». The stuff was pretty much pure aluminum. There may have been a couple of end caps, which I would have taken out of I knew these people were crooks.

My first time ever going to a recycling center. I’m surprised at how easy it was to do this. They have all these wheeled trash cans for you to separate all your recyling. Then you just roll it up to the weigh area. And the people there were friendly even though they were doing a gross job.
The line moved quick too!
Ended up getting $ 16 for my cans, bottles and plastics. Would def come here again.

Okay, here’s my personal experience with & personal perspective on this place. I’m a completely frustrated electrical contractor. I brought in large quantities of 3 different types of metals. NOT bottles & cans! Copper wire with insulation on it, which I did not expect much for, plus 138.4 lbs of pure aluminum electrical panel busing which, as they listed on my receipt, totaled $ 170.50, but I was only compensated $ 105 because they said it’s mixed metals! NOT SO! I also brought 389 lbs. scrap steel electrical boxes & received only $ 19.45, as expected. As an electrical contractor, I made absolutely certain that I broke out all non-​aluminum parts from my aluminum scrap & stripped off all & any rubber insulation to ensure I would receive the fair market value for clean, pure aluminum. I spent a great deal of time making certain that my aluminum was pure. What they probably penalized me for were some tiny screws holding some parts of the aluminum together. From a full 50 gallon barrel, completely full, the guy who weighed it used a magnet on only 2 small pieces of my scrap. Two pieces! From that, he made the determination that my aluminum was not pure. I had actually called them in advance after reading all the negative reviews of people getting ripped for only 40% of the true value for impure materials. I was told not to worry about that. WRONG! There’s no recourse as I see it. I was going to make a second trip today with over 400 lbs. of clean shiny copper wire, quoted at only $ 2.56 per lb. But not now, not ever. This place just does as it pleases and compensates you whatever they want, no matter what you were told in advance. They also have absolutely NO sense of urgency, so if you’re in a hurry, expect a long wait as nobody will offer to help you. Nobody. If you need a dumpster, find one yourself, then find a person to operate a forklift, then find someone to weigh it for you. I’m shopping around from now on.

Here is A Recycling Place where you can Recycle your Cans Plastic and Metal and all sorts of stuff but for Newspaper they give very little. I Brought a whole lot of Paper and they only gave me 2.00 Bucks not much at all. But the good part about this place is they have a whole bunch of trash cans for you to use so you dont have to wait for cans to put your Recycle stuff. Overall I think this is one of the better spots for recycling. It is located on the left end of Convoy St next to the 52 Freeway.

I took 136lbs of bottles, sorted them into different colors. I had about 4 lbs of clear bottles, with 2 wine bottles in them (wine bottles have no CRV)
They rang up my ENTIRE transaction as mixed bottles, and gave me ~40% of the value of the entire 136lbs of bottles. They didn’t mention anything, and when I asked for the bottles back so I could pull the 2 wine bottles out, they said the transaction was complete so I couldn’t get them.
This collection of bottles was for a fundraiser for a non-​profit.
I will not be returning. I will take my stuff to a different company.

This is the only recycling center I will ever go to anymore. Great place to recycle, does not get too crowded. The employees are helpful, everything goes fast, and you get more money for your cans and bottles than anywhere. They require you to separate glass, plastic, aluminum. They recycle many types of plastics, paper and cardboard products. They also accepts all types of scrap metal, including iron, brass, copper and aluminum. Bring in your old computers, toasters, car batteries and other electronic waste, and we will dispose of it safely.
Drive right in, the guys are awesome and help you to get all of your recyclables out of the car and into the bins. Very easy… best in San Diego. If you are looking for a place to use, use this place!!!

Always feel like I am making more in money for my effort here. Busy on weekends. Not a lot to say about this one.

I always dreaded going to Recycling centers because whenever you go, you have to sort out all your plastics, glass, aluminum, etc. and on top of that have to separate out the glass to the colors, plastics to the numbers and it’s just a tedious task. Also, in the end, if you’re just recycling your household stuff, it’s not going to give you enough money to even make up the GAS cost to go which results in a huge stockpile of recycling at home.
Well, the wife and I had enough with our annoying pile of bottles and everything so I went to recycle everything this weekend. I usually go to rePlanet, but with the Ralph’s closed I didn’t know if it was still open. That and I needed to go to 99 Ranch to get some Chinese groceries.
So… The recycling center. This place makes it SO much less painful than going to re-​planet.
The process is, you wait in line to get the garbage cans you dump the recycling into. Once you get it, you can load it up at your car and then you go into another line to get it weighed. After it’s weighed, you go into yet another line to get the money. So to boil it down to pro’s and con’s
The Good:
— Three lines, simple and efficient. (If you go to rePlanet, you have to wait in one line and get the bins which people kind of fight over and they’re all pushy.)
— Short’ish waits — I think I waited a total of 10 minutes altogether. (rePlanet also is just so slow! The Miramar Recycling Center has 2 guys weighing and 2 guys tossing the recycling into the large dumpsters. This is GOLDEN compared to the 1 person manning the rePlanet stations.)
The Bad:
— Not necessarily honest when it comes to what they’re weighing. I spent about 5 minutes at home separating all the glass products and plastics. They marked it all as mixed. This would have resulted in 40% more money for the redemption.
— TERRIBLE parking. It’s just flat out hard to find parking. There’s room for about 8 cars and a line to get in if it’s busy.
So I’ll be frequenting here more often just because it’s THAT much better than any other rePlanet I’ve been to. That’s really all i got. It’s a recycling center. Save the planet
TL:DR — Better than rePlanet but bad parking.

It’s good for the bottle, it’s good for the can ;) This place has recycling all dialed in. It can get a little crowded on the wknds but otherwise a great place all around to recycle and put a few extra bucks in your pocket while helping out mother earth.

We recycle all of our cans and bottles and this place gives more money per can/​bottle than others. They take almost everything here: electronics, scrap metal, wiring, piping… One stop spot for all things recycling.

Not only do you have to pay to recycle some electronics when Recycle San Diego down the street doesn’t charge, but you have to unload yourself and deal with the busy mess of other people recycling other items… Not the best place to recycle when other great options exist.

This place seems to run a pretty tight ship, but seriously recycling is not worth my time! I saved my bottles and cans for six months. I had enough to completely fill my car (mid-​size sedan) from front to back and walked away with 23 dollars and change. My advice give your recyclables to somone who needs it more than you do. You will kill two birds with one stone: Help somone who needs it more than you do and do you part to save the planet.

not sure if you can be a ‘fan’ of a dump… but I just moved into a house and had ALOT of boxes to recycle. This seemed to be the only place within a 15 miles radius that would accept cardboard (weird) do they get a 3* rating for that.
Easy to get there, easy to drive in, park and throw your stuff in the pile.

I like this place. It’s close to my house and helps me get some extra cash for all of those Perrier bottles along with some other relaxing beverages. I dump cardboard, newspaper, and all the recyclable drinking containers. I have now started to take all of those pesky boxes Costco gives you when they box your groceries.
I will never get rich from recycling, but I do get a few bucks to get a manicure or some other perk to make me look ageless!

Brought an old truck engine in here after it threw a rod on me. The guy handling the recycling told me that he couldn’t give me cash for it, since the iron and the aluminum were all mixed together. Laughable, since it’s just a matter of turning bolts.
«But,» he said with a sly wink, «If you take it around behind one of those containers, I won’t say anything.»
Cool beans, bro, I’m just trying not to get fined for dropping this in some apartment complex’s dumpster. Took it around back, kicked it out of the truck bed and got a sadistic thrill when the fall cracked the front cover.

So i just spent out 45 minutes trying to find this place… no where to be found. In order to even get to 5168 Convoy you would have to go on base… one problem; THE ROAD IS CLOSED!!!

What a dump! Sorry. I had to make a joke.
This place runs a good business. They’re efficient and, of course, helpful to the environment. You can bring anything here to recycle. I’ve brought a fax machine, an old computer, keyboard, mouse and the standard cans and bottles. You fill up the bins with the recyclables and hand over your appliances or office machines to the random guys who walk up to you and you’re out of there.
You do have to pay a small fee to recycle appliances and office supplies. It’s usually 25 cents per pound or something comparable. You wouldn’t pay a ton to recycle a washing machine though…
You pick up your cash right there so be sure to stand in line to your right after you’ve handed over everything. You get the ticket printed out, collect your cash and you’re on your way.
On your way out, be sure to notice the amount of stuff they’re recycling. I hope the rest of the world is this involved in recycling…