This place SUCKS. They act like they don't want your…read morebusiness. Very rude and mean, God forbid if you have more than one bag of cans. The only nice person there is Ty. I highly recommend going across the street on Commercial St. They are under new management They are very friendly and clean and aculy want your business. DON'T GO TO J&K REDEMPTION.

This is my go to redemption center. They ate very organized and trusting. Tony is very helpful,…read morefriendly and kind.

These guys are very patient to new comers not knowing what they are doing. The place is run very…read moreefficiently. Get yourself a magnet and stop paying to dispose of unused or unwanted metals. This place will pay you for your no longer used metals!! I've been back a half a dozen times now.

So over the years, I accumulated some heavy metal junk and I definitely did not want to just put it…read morein my residential trash so I decided to take it off to a local scrapyard. Scrap it was the closest yard to me and it looked like it had a pretty good review so I decided to load my car and drive over to see how much I can get. The entrance to the scrap yard is on a street with actually other scrap yards. The entrance is highly visible and all you have to do is actually drive in and they have someone to help direct you to the right location to stop. They can pretty much tell if you need help so they walked right up to my window asked a few questions and had me popped the trunk so that they can take a magnet and start checking out my metal scrap. He identified which pile goes where and told me where to park the car but he first had me drive over the weight scale, to take the initial weight. He then basically told me to park in front of one pile unload, came back to weigh in again and then went to the second pile unload and came back to weigh in again. He printed me a receipt to bring to the pay office. I also had a big box of miscellaneous scrap metal, which he said I can just put inside a bin and cart it into the facility for a manual inspection. Overall, it was actually a pretty easy process. The workers they were actually very professional courteous and they were not condescending at all like they knew I was not familiar with the process and just guided me the whole way. Definitely will come back again when I accumulate another pile of metal junk.

Make sure you count your cans before you go! Also, when I went they didn't take any plastic…read morebottles... overall easy return and quick money in your pocket all to recycle and save the earth

All the way behind a few mechanic shops. Get a cart, count your cans, tell them the count, get…read morepaid. Was way faster than using the automated machines.

This place couldn't be easier to use and the people who staff it are always helpful. In case you've…read morenever been: You drive in, they tell you what goes where, you drive by bins for the different materials dropping in your items, (they help with heavy items), and you keep driving straight ahead and out to the street.

I seem to have enormous amounts of cardboard from Amazon boxes. They take a lot of stuff but not…read morewooden items. Certain large plastic items are offset as well. They are always friendly, BUT they DO REQUIRE ID proving you are a Watertown resident. I took a copy of my utility bill.

Parking is usually not a problem except for the winter snow…read more It's clean, has plenty of room to stack your recyclables, the employees are courteous and helpful and they pay in cash. Most of all, it absolutely beats trying to feed cans or bottles into the recycling machines at most every supermarket.

Nice people, quick service. Sort your cans by type to make it go faster. Much easier than the…read moregrocery store.

Important note - although the official address is 147 Hampshire St you'll do better to put…read moresomething like 288 Norfolk St into Google Maps. It's at the back of the Public Works lot, if you're coming by car just drive right in and past the gas pumps. There are various bins and dumpsters for different categories of stuff, and an employee will tell you what to do with your stuff. Easy peasy experience other than the hiccup with GPS directions.

Current hours of operation are Tues. 4-7:30, Thurs. 4-7:30, Sat. 9-4. But check the city website…read moreto be sure. Having a recycle center that takes many items not accepted in the curbside program is tremendously helpful in reusing these resources rather than sending them to the landfill! All but one Mass. landfill is scheduled to close by 2025, & we already send our trash as far as MI & AL. The recycle center takes a variety of items NOT accepted in the curbside bin including: scrap metal, plastic bags, compact fluorescent bulbs, bulky plastics, non alkaline batteries, items with mercury (thermostats / thermometers) ... https://www.cambridgema.gov/services/recyclingcenter Additional Recycle Options: Staples offers $5-10 reward credit for tech items (computers, printers, phones, & much more) & $2 for ink cartridges. Target also accepts the above items, and offers car seat recycling twice a year w/ incentives. Plastic bags/films are accepted at Star Market, & Whole Foods accepts some plastic bags/films & wine corks. Home Depot & Lowes: Compact fluorescent lights (CFLs), rechargeable batteries, cell phones, plastic bags. Lowes also takes plastic planter pots. Diaper drop off at Wix offices and Centers for Children & Families - bags may be open. Returnable cans/bottles are accepted in many places that sell them, but if you have a lot, E & C in Cambridge is efficient if they are still open.

Honest and friendly people. I have dealt with them since the '80s…read more Dan has been especially helpful now that I am an older person. Glad to continue giving these my scrap metals.

I have to leave these folks a review after my first transaction with them. I showed up yesterday…read morewith 18 carefully weighed large trash bags of brass wire with a total (my calculation) of 870 pounds . After arriving and being helped to transfer the wire to 3 large metal bins, they weighed the bins and found the total to be 916 pounds! I was sure I had calibrated my scale and couldn't be that far off but they insisted that their measurement was accurate so I accepted their payment. I had numbered my bags 1 thru 18 so today I checked the empty bags and found I had made 2 bags and numbered them with the same number. The one of those two bags that I had not accounted for weighed 43.6 pounds. So my total of 870 pounds should have been 913.6 pounds which means their total was 2.4 pounds more than my calculated weight. They apologized for not having more help unloading (I wasn't expecting any) so service was great, weight was very accurate, and the payment rate was quite fair. My overall experience was exceptional.

great group of guys, helped me out with my load and greased all the fittings in my truck…read more 10/10 experience.

I needed leaf mulch for my gardens last year and called L E's Mattapan location to find some. They…read moredidn't answer and their voice mailbox was full-- not encouraging. So I went in person. The place was disorganized and the staff was unprofessional. I waited for quite a while as various people had loud discussions about whose fault a missed delivery had been. I finally left, having gotten an idea of what my experience would be. this year, I found that L E had an outlet in Woburn. The website was not active, so I called and left a message for their mulch department. Nobody called me back, so the next day I took a chance and drove up to Woburn to inquire in person. They did have leaf mulch and I ordered my load and paid for delivery, which was to be out of the Mattapan site. I was given May 17 between 7 and 8 a.m. as the delivery time. On the 17th we waited for the delivery. And waited. finally, at around 1:45 I called Woburn again to see what was up. "Truck trouble," I was told after the Woburn office called the Mattapan office. I was promised the mulch by 3:30. You can probably guess that it wasn't delivered. I stayed home all day waiting, changing my other plans as the hours passed. This morning (May 18th), I called Woburn again to tell them that I hadn't received the mulch. Paul from the Woburn office called the Mattapan number again to inquire. When he came back on the line, he told me he'd ensured that the delivery would be today, even if he had to have it driven down to Dorchester from Woburn. Now I'm sitting on my hands again, waiting for mulch and hoping it gets here before I have to work this afternoon. SiteOne, the corporation that holds Landscape Express needs to TRAIN its staff in professional and responsive customer service. There's no magic to being polite and even a simple checklist of follow-up actions can help ensure that jobs don't fall through the cracks. I appreciate Paul's efforts on my behalf, but they shouldn't have been necessary. Not Rocket Science. Get it together Mattapan!