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4.6 (36 reviews)
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Stuk H.

Surprise when you're cashed out. Lowered prices, but new price not posted! Want your recyclable's back? Too bad! They have already been dumped in back area!

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4 months ago

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6 minutes ago

I thank the workers helping me out with my bottles and cans and they really have good customer service I would definitely recommend them

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2 days ago

Great people working and helping us out, loved the positive energy as well, everyone was very kind.

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2 months ago

5 star / 100% Great, fast, clean, helpful, nice, pleasant ! Would definitely recommend!

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1 year ago

Great place to take your recycling. Friendly and helpful. Make sure you sort your stuff ahead of time. Prices were great too.

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5 months ago

Went on a Saturday morning and it was very busy but we had fast and friendly service! Very quick!

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10 months ago

Coming here for years! Great customer service! Always kind and hard at work! Lovely people!

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8 months ago

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11 months ago

Nathan and crew are amazing! Fast, friendly and efficient! Highly recommend this location for your recycling needs!!

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5 months ago

Guys up here are fast and really helpful this is the only recycling center i go to in the av

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10 months ago

I was immediately greeted and helped by Victor who was extremely nice! Great service. Will return again.

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1 year ago

great pricing! my favorite place to come. victor & everyone else is so kind! my favorite place to recycle :)

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1 year ago

This place it's the best for recycling! And Victor it's really helpful, friendly and has a great Customer Service.

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4 years ago

Best recycling center! They are friendly & super fast! Will be coming here from now on !!

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4 years ago

Always willing to help out. Never had a bad experience. Very responsive employees. Very courteous

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7 years ago

Dude it's so empty here! Great service. I was done in 15 min. Sorted and paid! Love this place!

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Even though this place was hard to find because it is behind a grocery store I felt safe and was done within 5 minutes!

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Fast and friendly staff. Well organized space…read more My previous recycling location closed and Benites is now my new recycling place. Very happy to recommend

Happy Earth Day, 2026!…read more Did you know that humans produce over 460 million metric tons of plastic every year? After learning this, the first thought that came to my mind was 'This is a huge number! How much actually is this?' Consider this: This is more weight than the weight of the Eiffel Tower (Paris), Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco), Brooklyn Bridge (New York), Empire State Building (New York), Statue of Liberty (New York), Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italy), Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt), Burj Khalifa (Dubai), Space Needle (Seattle), Tokyo Skytree (Japan), The Pentagon (Virginia), and the Great Wall of China, ALL COMBINED, TIMES SEVEN! That's A LOT of plastic! Worse yet, we produce this amount of plastic EVERY year, and studies predict that it takes approximately 450 years for a plastic bottle to decompose in a landfill. That means that the plastic bottle that you throw in the trash will still be there for approximately 18 generations of your descendants after you. If you don't recycle, you are literally trashing our planet for your own offspring! And, Earth is the only planet that we know of that is capable of supporting life. OK, I'll get off my soapbox now. Aside from trying to be a good citizen of planet Earth, I also recycle because I could always use some extra cash. I can usually pocket around $20 for every visit I make here, which really helps because I am certainly not a rich man. This particular location is a great option for recycling, here at "Benites Recycling," located just behind Bob's Market (Lancaster, California). I've been to this location several times. The money you receive by recycling here is similar to what you will receive at other nearby recycling centers. There are three things I like about this location in particular, as follows: (1) they typically do not require you to show your I.D. like they do at some other locations; (2) they use lightweight recycling bins, so they can quickly obtain an accurate weight of your recycling without having to tare the weight of the bins; and (3) the wait here is usually minimal because there are usually less people here than at some of the other recycling centers I have gone to. Although I believe the folks here are honest, the only thing I don't like about this location is how the actual recycling weight is difficult for the customer to see unless the customer walks around the scale and stands next to the employee reading the weight. Aside from this one drawback, I do like coming here for the reasons mentioned above. I'll definitely return to this location in the future. If you don't recycle here, please recycle somewhere.

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Did you know that humans produce over 460 million metric tons of plastic every year? After…read morelearning this, the first thought that came to my mind was 'This is a huge number! How much actually is this?' Consider this: This is more weight than the weight of the Eiffel Tower (Paris), Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco), Brooklyn Bridge (New York), Empire State Building (New York), Statue of Liberty (New York), Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italy), Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt), Burj Khalifa (Dubai), Space Needle (Seattle), Tokyo Skytree (Japan), The Pentagon (Virginia), and the Great Wall of China, COMBINED, TIMES SEVEN! That's A LOT of plastic! Worse yet, we produce this amount of plastic EVERY year, and studies predict that it takes approximately 450 years for a plastic bottle to decompose in a landfill. That means that the plastic bottle that you throw in the trash will still be there for approximately 18 generations of your descendants after you. If you don't recycle, you are literally trashing our planet for your own offspring! And, Earth is the only planet that we know of that is capable of supporting life. OK, I'll get off my soapbox now. Aside from trying to be a good citizen of planet Earth, I also recycle because I could always use some extra cash. Whenever I recycle, I can usually pocket somewhere between $20 and $40. It's nice to get a little extra cash, right? This particular location is a great option for recycling, here at the "A.V. Recycling Center" (Lancaster, California). I've been to this location several times. It's usually a pretty busy place, usually with a few other folks recycling here as well. Even though it can be a little busy, three of the things I like about this location are: (1) they typically do not require you to show your I.D. like they do at some other locations, (2) they are careful to weigh your items and then tare the weight of the bins for an accurate measurement, and (3) the weight and calculation are visible to the customer, to give the customer confidence in the honesty of the men who work here. As I mentioned earlier, it's a little busy here, but there are a few good reasons to recycle here instead of recycling at another location. I'll definitely return to this location in the future. If you don't recycle here, please recycle somewhere.

This is the place I recycle. I would have liked to see a few more people working on the intake of…read morerecyclables to speed up the process. Overall it is a good and local place I can bring my recyclables. There are other local places but when I find a place to do business I seldom switch.

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If I could give less than a star, I would. They are crooks, liars, and disgusting people who had no…read moreissues talking horribly about customers coming to recycle. They also had no problem asking one another what hair color they thought my female area was either. They just spoke to each other in Spanish because they assumed I could not understand them. I made it a point to call ahead and verify I could be paid the CRV redemption if I brought my aluminum cans, glass bottles, and plastic beverage containers to be recycled there. I was assured I would be paid as such. I made sure to pre-count all my recycling before leaving for the facility as well. I had 832 aluminum soda cans, 229 glass beer bottles, and 302 2-liter plastic soda bottles in total. Here is what I was given: Aluminum 6.0 lbs @ $1.68 = $10.08; 53 lbs @ $0.15 = $5.57; and 11.0 lbs @ $1.32 = $14.52. A total of $30.17! They are liars, scammers, and I felt them to be quite misogynistic as well. 0/10 NEVER RECYCLE AT AV RECYCLING!!!

They said our bottles had water in them, but we said no, they were crushed bottles. They wanted to…read moregive us only half the money. So we had to put all our bottles back into bags ourselves. At other times we have counted bottles and taken it there, and have only gotten a little over half the amount we would have gotten had we went to a recycling machine. So instead of 5 cents a bottle, you get 2-3 cents a bottle. We will never come here again.

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