If you want to do your part for the city...recycle!! This location takes a lot of items and…read morerecycle to save the city money. You can go to any location through the city but make sure you have someone with you that has a ID and a light, gas or water bill in there name or they will turn you away. Get there early, wait in line and patience. The yard bin fills up pretty fast so you might have to wait about 40 minutes before they take the container to one of the major recycle plants to unload for mulch processing and return. If you have only yard waste (branches, logs, leaves) the wait will not be as long.

Just found this recycling center in north Houston. The staff was very helpful. This center recycles…read morepaper, plastic, cans, and glass. Also, it takes appliances, metal, and tree cuttings. I used to frequent the Sunnyside center. The Kirkpatrick center isn't as up to date. But it recycles and it's there to provide a much needed service. That alone gives it value. Please sort out the items and ensure that it's all clean. The city provided recycling centers helps the Earth by reducing waste going into landfills.

Thankful the city has this service for us to drop off recycling…read more They want you to wear your mask when driving through and then 1/2 the times I go they take my temperature but the other 1/2 they don't. I think it depends who is working that day. They will take everything out of my trunk and THEN take my temperature... it kind of doesn't make sense. What would they have done if after taking my recycling out, my temp is high? Would they then grab it all from the bins and put it back in my car? Why not just let me keep my window closed the whole time that way we just don't make contact at all? Minus 1 star for hours. 8-5 Monday to Saturday basically means I can only make on Saturdays if I don't have to work that Saturday. Would be nice if they'd open a bit earlier in the morning or have bins outside to drop of basic recycling items like plastic and cans.

Visited Houston Recycle Center to drop off a 10 year old laptop and 5 year old printer. Easy to…read morefind and drop off items. Pulled up to warehouse type double open garage drive through. Pop open the trunk and point out the items you'd like to recycle. The staff will unload for you. You need to show an ID. Overall quick, easy and great service! Be warned it does smell terrible because of a dumpster on the property next to the recycle center, not a big deal but just be mentally prepared. Reduce your carbon footprint--help save the earth! Here is some additional information on acceptable items: houstontx.gov/solidwaste/westpark.html

Use this place for the first time this week, I used to use the Tomball place on 2920 but they are…read moreclosed now. They where quick and helpful and the the price was decent. I will be using them again.

I phoned ahead to make sure they took the kind of major, heavy appliances I had. They did, I went…read moreover, the oven and refrigerator that my nephew and I wrestled into the truck were adroitly yanked out with care (no scraping across my truck bed) by just one (1) of their workers and hoisted onto a scale. A few extra bucks in my pocket later and we were off to the nearby Waffle House. No muss, no fuss, we got paid a little to deliver it ourselves instead of paying a lot for someone to cart it away, and everyone we met at Spring Scrap Metal Recycling was enthusiastic and kind. 5 Stars all the way!

Friendly staff and they seem fair on prices. Never tried to scam me on price of the various scrap…read moremetals I brought. They even helped me take my busted water heater from my truck. Definitely recommend!!!!

They're like all scrap metal places. Pay peanuts for lots of metal. I had over 80 lbs of metal and…read moregot $3.00 for it all. You know they're making much more off of it which is the travesty of these places. But they took my scrap metal and it's not in my garage anymore so whatever .

Whenever I have junk metal, I like to stop by Tri Star to recycle the metals and get PAID for it…read more Tri Star will take any metal including broken appliances. They also take non-working batteries, copper wires, and other recyclable material. Are you getting any great ideas yet? If you have a truck, haul the junk metal to this place and sell it! I always find broken appliances like refrigerators, washing machine, oven.....etc. around dumpsters. Tri Star always try to honor competitor prices on recyclable metals. This place is a recycling center so it is not the most appealing place. They are friendly people, though.

Their slogan is "Let's be honest," however I think they are everything but…read more I took an assortment of metals today to sell to them, i.e. cans, cast aluminum, brass, miscellaneous wires, and iron. They weighed the cans and they weighed the iron, however they DID NOT weigh the wires, the cast aluminum OR the brass. How did they KNOW how much of those I took in? BY SIGHT!!! WHAT!?!? Immediately I was skeptical when he handed me a payment for my metals I truly felt was low, so I asked for a receipt (since they did not give me one). The ONLY metals on the receipt i was paid for were the cans, the cast aluminum and the iron. My guess is since I had quite a few pounds of each, but not much of the others. When I questioned him about the wires, he said, "You don't have much of those. You're looking at maybe a dollar. I can give you another dollar if you'd like." I told him nevermind as i didnt want to make a scene. But if he was willing to give me a dollar for the wires, why wasn't I paid it initially??? Please believe me when I say this is not about the dollar. This is about honesty which they claim to have. An honest business would have had every item I took in on the receipt. An honest business would have weighed out, individually, every type of metal I took in. They did neither of these my friends. And I'm still wondering how much I should have received for my brass too. In summary, I have absolutely NO TRUST in this business, and I WILL NEVER take my metals to them again. It makes me wonder how many honest people selling their metals to this business have been shorted money they most certainly deserved. Honest people who, more than likely, were selling metals to make ends meet in their lives. Bad form, Tri Star . . . BAD FORM!!!

BRUCE BADEAU -- I had a very good experience with Astro City Scrap and a fun and lively…read moreconversation with DON, the owner. I shopped around and they had the best prices for copper, brass, stainless, and aluminum. There was plenty of immediate help to unload my car... seamless and painless. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Everything efficient & professional & workers helpful with questions. . . Several workers helped go…read morethru my box of recycling & took care of it all. . . If anyone knows where to recycle styrofoam, please let me know.

Went to dump a water heater. Female attendant was eating lunch which she spit into her hand and…read morereached for my driver's license with her same saliva coated fingers. Her personality was about as inviting as a porcupine.

The recycle section only…read more Was trying to drop off a countertop air fryer convection oven. I have always gone to the west park location but this was very close to my house. Stopped on a Thursday morning and the drop off wait system is confusing. There are apparently 2 lines, one for the dump waste and one for recycling. But you can't tell where one starts or ends. Drove in and was a bit confused about the process. 2 men standing outside, neither acknowledge me. I get out of the car and a young lady comes out of the building and asks to help me. I explain to her what I'm dropping off and she asks me if it works. I say yes. I said it has these burn marks on the inside (one of the caveats of this Cuisinart model was that it's difficult to remove heat or grease marks - main complaint from most consumers and there are no replacement parts) She tells me to back in and take it out of the car. As I open the trunk, the guy finally acknowledges me and asks the lady if it works. She tells him what I said. And he yells, we aren't going to take it bc it's dirty. I respond "it's not dirty, there are burn marks that you can't remove, let me show you. " He says, "we don't recycle dirty equipment". I look at the dirty washing machine he is fixing and said fine and walk off. The young lady apologizes repeatedly and suggest I give it to one of the guys waiting in the long line for the dump side. I ended up going to the Westpark location where the employees are nice and polite. Maybe he was having a bad day or deals with crap people but I didn't do anything deserve to be treated so rudely. Nevertheless, I will stick to Westpark.

AMAZING! Where do I even start? Service was great! Friendly staff. I requested for Vanish to meet…read moreme at the storage unit to shred 30+ boxes. Alberto called and confirmed a meeting time. I arrived at the storage facility and he was already waiting for me! He was very quick and professional. Alberto went above and beyond his means to help me load boxes in my car. Very nice guy. I definitely recommend Vanish Document to shred/purge my items. Oh and they have the best price!!! Happy yelping!

Unfortunately, after 18 years, Vanish no longer offers free drop-off document shredding. Check…read moretheir website: VanishDocuments.com. There was a handwritten sign at their closed gate on 9/25/2026 at 3:45 PM.