Lomeli recycling center is a small hole in the wall spot that you might missed if you aren't…read morelooking carefully but luckily I've been coming here since I was 6-8 years old and now currently 26. Came for the first time since 2015 and everything is great besides the parking but the people there are super quick and very nice. If I would rate this place out 5 I'd give it 4.5 just because the parking kind of sucks but they make do with what they have and get it done with what they got. They value their customers and if you need a cold beverage and a place to wash your hands they provide both !

Pues que Digo el senor El dueno y su familia son muy amables very nice nice people and treat people…read morevery kindly .

Friendly service and very helpful , definitely recommend to anyone in town .its pays good for your…read morerecyclables .

went on saturday at 9:30 am and no one was at the booth. sat there for another 15 min as other…read morepatrons began to come and leave as no one continued to show up, and i overheard a conversation between two people waiting with their recyclables and apparently this is a regular occasion. It was also often that workers would not show up until 2 or even 4 when the center closes at 4:45 pm i looked up the phone number but was not motivated enough to go through the calling system to get a representative to do something about this location, and i looked up another recycling center down the street and left. i can see that the workers do not care about the people or their job so why should they keep getting a paycheck for hours that they arent even at the location?

I dropped off our recycling here for the first time. It was pretty busy and took a couple of…read moreminutes to park. You grab cans with holes to load your recyclables and take them to be weighed. It's that easy! $40 later and we're off. The whole process was rather easy. The location is convenient. $1.66 lb.

This Evolution Recycling deserves a review because the service is absolutely impeccable! You can…read moretell that they have fun in their jobs here and make it a good time for something like recycle. They just updated their facility and have great shade while your cans are getting counted. Additionally, there's a hand wash station and you can't ask for anything more. Highly recommend this location!

I always come to this recycling center because they are always so nice and fast ! Usually no line…read moreand can get in and out fast. Can take a lot but for me that have only a couple bags it's super convenient

Very clean and people are very nice got more money here than other places I have gone to. It is a…read morelittle hidden but worth it.

I have recycled forever. Gu's is one of the nicest centers in the area. The guys are funny and…read morealways friendly. Really great prices. Guys are always there to help when you really need it.

Swung by the other day to recycle some metal and cans I had laying around the house for quite…read moresometime now. All the staff was wearing masks and gloves. Gustavo the cashier made my visit go smooth and splendid. I got a great deal for what I considered to be "trash". Thanks Gustavo and the rest of the staff, will be back soon!

I love these guys, they moved to 1862 e 55th st which is at the corner of Alameda and 55, after…read moretrying all recycling centers in downtown i can surly say that they are the best. I give 5 STARS

Went on june 18, 2021 friday at around 5~6pm. There was only 1 person infront of me. I always had…read moreto wait at least 10min at other recycling centers but this place was the fastest time ive ever spent in a recycling center. They close at 6:30pm everyday I never seen a recycle center open this late. Also their recycle price was better than the other places ive been too, I will defenitly come again.

Easy and quick service - weigh your scrap metals on the scale, present ID and wait for payment…read more Couldn't be easier to recycle scrap metal. Highly recommend!

First time there . Employees were friendly . Cashed out same day , but once I reviewed receipt…read moreafter I left , I discovered that they combined my clean and dirty copper with brass and gave me brass rates . Also they weighed everything while I was busy filling out papers for first time customers , therefore I didn't notice that they did 3 separate weigh ins for 3 water heaters that I brought. One had a huge tare ,bringing down weight significantly, not sure what was it for. Then they labeled one as white goods, bringing down the rate . They bamboozled me and i made the mistake for trusting them and not reviewing receipt while still there . Regardless , they made me sign before even telling me the total amount that I was getting . Attaching photo of receipt .

I've been on this mission lately to do more reusing, recycling, reimagining and being less…read morewasteful. In my mission, I've been researching recycling centers around the city. Somehow in my first venture to a recycling center, I ended up here. I thought it was somehow an official center - but it's not. The SoCal Recycling Center at 2503 Whittier Blvd in Los Angeles operates as a mobile recycling center. It's open Monday through Saturday from 9 am to 3 pm, with a daily lunch break from 12 pm to 12:30 pm. The center is located at the Pavilions and is messy, not a lot of parking, but it gets the job done. No one helped us, explained things, or even said a single word! Until a few minutes into the weighing, the staff made some kind of funny joke to us lo. Overall though, due to lack of parking and just overly being dirty, my search for a good recycling center in LA continues! Recycling Tips: Aluminum, glass and plastic bottles need to be separated! Get that cash money!

Since I was nearby on an errand and had some recycling in the trunk, I searched for a nearby…read morerecycling center and this came up. It's in the same plaza as Ralphs, off of Emerson Ave. This isn't my usual recycling place. So it was a surprise to me to find out that they accept wine bottles and even those Ragu jars! (Be sure to clean the inside since the workers have to break it down themselves.) My regular recycling center didnt take those so I've been just tossing it in the trash. (My garbage company says they will separate it out but somehow I am skeptical.) Since finding this place, I've been bringing all of my wine bottles and glass jars here. As for the value when it comes to these glass items, I'm not sure if I am getting a fair price or not since I have nothing to compare it to. But at least in my situation, I am getting a little something instead of absolutely nothing when I toss it in the trash. The lines go quickly at this location. It's definitely a shorter wait time compared to my usual place. And the staff here are friendly. I've been back and will keep coming back!

I have been coming here for the past two years mainly because it is convenient and close to my…read morehouse. It's at the parking lot right next to Ralph's with about 6 parking spots right in front of it. The people working there are nice. They go on lunch break from 12pm-1pm I believe. Last time I did go about after 1pm and they were not there yet so keep that in mind. They now take glass bottles individually instead of by weight and the pricing changed since my last visit but I don't pay too much attention to the prices since this is just extra money to me. The process is easy - just separate your cans, bottles, and glass. This location doesn't take gallon milk cartons but the montebello location does.

Staff was very helpful. I dropped off two large TVs and a laptop. They even offered to help me take…read moreit out of the car. Process was very quick. Showed them my id and I was out of there. Would definitely go back

As of today September 16, 2019, Downtown Metals and Recycling Center HAS NOT OPERATED at 526…read moreAlameda Street for well more than a year. I haven't seen any notice of what happened to this long-time Downtown L.A. business - no "Moved" sign on the front (garage) door (though there's a "For Sale" sign) - but no appearance of a new location nor of any "new"- reincarnation of this long-time L.A. business. As of 9-29-2019 the website is still active listing the Alameda Street address and operating hours, but it appears that Downtown Metals and Recycling Center is only a memory. If anyone has information on what happened to this Los Angeles recycling industry pioneer that WAS OPEN 24 HOURS/DAY for many years, please post it here as an update/tribute/acknowledgement of their role in shaping the arts district by providing a method for original arts district artists to pretty easily earn a couple extra bucks AND sometimes also BUY salvage items for their work, also for many construction workers with surplus copper wire, glass, etc. to make some decent extra cash as well as a wide variety of Angelenos including skid row street dwellers who tolerated the loud, crowded, dirty warehouse it operated in to drop off a wide range of recyclable materials for benefit of the environment and their wallets. YELP please confirm that this business hasn't moved or resurfaced and update the listing accordingly.