Brought some aluminum can and plastic bottles here yesterday. Staff really helpful and courteous. Quick and polite and easy in and out lot next to transfer station. Recommend highly! read more

Global Material Recycling (used to be very reputable) came under new management earlier this year - I believe, Republic Services - and seem to be making the rules as they go along. First, they no longer accept alcohol containers because they do not specifically state CA crv. [Stores do not want them either! So only option is to give to local sanitation company, forfeiting paid crv.] Now, they do not want the plastic tops to beverage containers. Of course, that is where the weight lies. Front office reaffirmed that if they come with, they'd accept, but could simply be tossed. What!?! I thought the purpose of recycling was to provide relief to landfills (and environment) as well as recirculate the material. So, what did they do with the tops that they confiscated from customers? Hmmm! read more

Great transfer center. I like dumping trash here. It's very family friendly too. I find that the employees are nice.

Super easy and convenient. Super friendly and courteous. Very helpful. One of the gentleman saw I was attempting to drag a bunch garbage cans of cans from my truck and he ran over to assist. The lady who printed out my check was super friendly. I was In And out in no time. read more

The service here is atrocious. They're rude to our crew and They're the only location that won't keep your info on file. They send you a bill and shut off access if you don't pay within a week. If you can avoid this place, do it. read more

Finally, this the way Recycling should be done! The employees were helpful and signage was clearly posted. The parking including the stacked plastic blue bins were neat and orderly. One can park, pick up the bins you need in order to separate each material and put them into the bins. Then the bins are taken to the waiting line to be correctly weighed onto the scale. The young Latino man who calculates your materials and prints your receipt to be taken to a larger narrow office in the back to be redeemed is very knowledgeable and helpful. Great job! read more

I came here after the last place was packed and it looked like it could take a long time for me to get rid of my cans. Waste of time as the gate for the recycling area was closed. Apparently there is only one place in Sonoma County (or at least near SR) where you can sell CRV on a Monday. read more

The wait may be long sometimes but the service is incredible. I was a tiny woman going to the trash dump for the first time and all the workers treated me really nicely and answered all of my questions! If you have just stuff to recycle, go to the right, if you have furniture, your car needs to be weighed. It was $40 for me for a dresser. That's the min. read more

Rude staff, very disorganized system, impossible to get in and out. They were extremely rude to me and shouted directions with curse words. They need to be shut down. read more

If you've ever been to any other recycling place, you'll immediately notice how useless and incompetent these bumbling buffoons are. They have no idea what they are doing. They are also a bunch of rotten aholes. If you are recycling cans and bottles, there is an area off to the right...COMPLETELY UNMARKED AND BLOCKED OFF where you are supposed to go...WHAT IDIOTS! The only way you figure this out is to get one of the mean, rotten aholes to tell you after driving around lost. The space is huge, could easily hold 20 cars or more, but the incompetent losers only let a few cars in at a time and keep everyone else lined up in the street blocking traffic...you can't make up this level of stupid. Every other recycling place, you pull in, fill up a plastic trash bin or 2 or more and get in line for the weighing. It couldn't be easier. Every single one...except these imbeciles. These buffoons deserve to be put out of business and replaced by competent people who can do a simple job that these bumblers can't even begin to comprehend how to perform. Go elsewhere, and tell everybody you know to do so as well. These pukes need to be on the unemployment line. read more

FREAKING NIGHTMARE to get in. The line goes down the street most of the day and starts before they even open. The line for recycling and refuse is the same so if your going here make sure you have nothing else planed for awhile. read more

Want to give them a five star. Came here on Friday and I love the new set up. Easy in and easy out. Who ever thought of the new layout, I give them many thanks. Great job. Come in for all your recycling needs. You going to love the new look. read more

I haven't taken any recyclables to Global since the new owners took over. They ruined a good streamlined system. It took way too long to weigh in and to check out. California needs to provide a better way to redeem the deposits we pay for when we purchase items with a CRV. Most people don't bother because of the hassle and just put their CRV items in their curbside pick up. I honestly think that California makes it difficult to redeem so that they can keep as much of the deposit revenue as possible. read more

If you want terrible service and misleading ads online, this is the right place. I've been a loyal customer for this dump for years, and I have never had an embarrassing experience until today where it was my first time coming back since the pandemic. And the person who was helping me was horribly rude and practically made me throw away my cardboard without getting paid for the cardboard even though I saw that they do buy cardboard, and I didn't even get paid for the cardboard, only for the bottles I had. And even then I only got like $5 and I normally I get like $40 from recycling. Again, I have been a loyal customer for years, but no longer. read more

9-28-221, The guy at the office who gives the check for the recycling area he is a thief , i just came back from there and he did not put down the right amount of pounds of aluminum and plastic, the luminum from 11 pounds he put down only 3 and plastic from 20 he put down 6 very bad, i told him the amount of pounds was not right ,he just played stupid and gave me a check for couple pounds, so its not about the money but its very wrong to be that bad and steal from you just like that, even after telling him he is a crook read more

The new ownership is so bad! This place is now called republic services. Waited in line for 45minutes to recycle my plastic bottles and cans. Then we finally get to unload our recyclables and the guy was such an ass! THEY ONLY TAKE "CA CRV" PLASTIC. You would think they would put that on a large sign outside their gates. And the guy was taking his sweet time looking at EVERY SINGLE BOTTLE!! Like wtf. Do not go to this place unless you have time to waste. I wish the old owner could buy it back, he was much better at managing it. read more

This place was fantastic. Friendly employees, even for a noob like me wh had never been the before. Here are the basics: You pull onto the scale, hop out and get your ticket from the friendly employee after you sign you name. Only rule is no kitchen waste kind of trash. Everything else is cool, obviously no chemicals or hazardous stuff. You pull over to the next guy, he checks your ticket and he assigns you a bay and you unload your crap. They have tools around if you need them You go back to the scale house, hop out and pay your bill. I think I saw a credit card reader but I am not sure if they take credit. $35 minimum, which I paid even with my Ford Expedition stuffed full of junk after cleaning out my garage. They take checks. I paid the friendly employee and was on my way. Why the hell did I ever drive out to the landfill with asshole employees, crappy hours, and higher prices. Never again meecham landfill, you and I are done. This place is my new trash heaven! read more

1. Better prices than Sonoma County Landfill. $37/ton versus $53.20/ton for clean yard waste. Why go to Mecham Road anymore (especially since they've closed the compost sales)? 2. Free cold water on hot days. What? Bonus! 3. Loaner tools in the event you forgot your broom, shovel, hay rake, etc. It keeps getting better. 4. Totally friendly folks (especially Tess in the Scale House) who actually appear to genuinely appreciate your business! Sooo glad my friend turned me on to this place (often called Industrial Carting). Easy to get to off Todd Road and the 101, just up the street (North) from Friedman's. read more

Great location to come recycle. Quick and easy process. And there is this one worker in particular (wish I knew his name) that is always so helpful, always has a great attitude, and fist pumps you as a gesture of thanks. Employers need to have more workers like him! read more

I had to recycle a lot of metal and these guys paid me for it, awesome.... I always bring my aluminum cans here and they are always quick and don't mess around. Some people say they are short and aren't very friendly but honestly they have to manage a lot of cars and people coming and going from this place. The message machine says they are open on sundays which they are but it also states to leave a message if it's during normal business hours and they will call you back, don't count on that. It's one of those things you just have to be there in person to ask one of the guys. They won't lead you wrong but nobody on the phone can help you. I wish they had separate locations or better yet separate drive ways for the building materials and the aluminum can departments, you can easily be waiting in a line to get in for over 15 min on super busy days just to find out all the guys in front of you are going to construction material recycling not aluminum cans. oh well. read more

Global Materials Recovery Services - Recycling Center Near Me - Santa Rosa, California

Pretty much the only game in town if you want to get some scratch for recycling that isn't just CRV here in Santa Rosa. Industrial Carting is right next door in the same yard and as far as I can figure the same place, just differences in what they take and how they weigh it. This review I'll just write to cover both. The people who worked there were really friendly and very helpful. I don't expect people to be as such at essentially a garbage facility, so that was a nice surprise. I do get better prices in the east bay, but the drive does not cover the additional fuel expense. This isn't my profession, I am not a 'scraper, but it seems a waste to just put copper, steel and aluminum and other recyclables in the landfill. It is nice to get a lunch or two for the trouble of sorting and hauling it down as well. The main thing that I like about Global is that as you would expect with a recycling facitly, there are all types going here -contractors getting rid of job waste, thrifty people getting a little extra change, and people for whom this process is how they eat and get by. Everyone was treated well and there was food by the check out station for those who might be in need of it to take. Nice touch. Seeing that, I didn't care a hoot about the little extra I might have gotten in Richmond. read more

These guys will rip you off. Not only do they pay you way less than market value for copper, the "boss" lied and said they paid $1/lb for #2 copper so we spent the time to unload and weigh. When we got the check it was .65/lb. We called the "boss" out and he said, "oops, that was a mistake. I owe you one." Very shady. To fix the problem they should have a chart clearly showing what each type of wire looks like, it's name and how much it cost so both the seller and the buyer knows what each item is. If you have a lot to recycle it's worth it to go out of county. read more

I have used both the left for throw away and the right for recycled items. Great personnel that are always willing to help. Great service as well. read more

Excellent place to dispose your green waste and construction items. We were very successful of getting rid of our construction materials here. We look forward in disposing our green waste at thus location especially hearing that there prices are much less to dispose without the hassles of driving to a far location. read more

Watch the employees, the person who weights your items gives the weight to the ticket employee. The numbers seem to differ from the weight to the written ticket amount., In a negative for the customer. read more

We've been here several times while remodeling our home. The people have always been nice. The people in the booth are nice, on hot days they give out cold bottles of water. All the people I've dealt with there were friendly. read more

For the most part the place is great. They stupidly changed their hours recently and now close the plastic and aluminum recycling at 4pm. This is a stupid move it's going to hurt business and it won't stop late comers. People will simply show up between 3 and 4 instead of between 4 and 5 or not at all. I already wasted my time loading everything into my car only to have them already closed when everything else is still open. Very annoying and makes me want to go somewhere else. CHANGE YOUR HOURS BACK! People who get off at a normal hour can't make it before 4pm. read more

Took my CRV glass and plastic bottles in to redeem my CRV deposit yesterday. Had a combination of CRV plastic from water bottles, juice bottles, soda bottles, and some one gallon water bottles all mixed together as I always do, 10 pounds three garbage cans full of CRV plastic. I normally get $15 to $20 for the CRV plastic. Apparently not all CRV plastic is the same. Because there was some "other" CRV plastic mixed in I got back 10 cents for all my 10 pounds of CRV plastic not the $15 to $20 I normally get back. You need to really pay attention when they are processing you recycling if you don't you might get screwed. One time before I took in aluminum cans, glass and plastic bottles all CRV deposit and when I got my check all the plastic CRV was missed not included, so you really need to pay attention to what they are doing if you don't want to get screwed. read more

If you are wondering what to do with any of your disposal items this is the place. I had a large pickup load of rock, soil, gravel, concrete, and brick from a backyard remodel project, and they were able to take it all for a minimal amount of $. The employees are very friendly and helpful and make a quick drop off possible. I will definitely go here again for my disposal needs. read more

Amazing service. Everytime I am helped quickly and by friendly hard workers. I'd recommend this place to any body looking to recycle. The staff is awesome, makes it a quick efficient easy process. I've never received poor service any time, by any staff:))) 10/10 read more

I have been coming here for years. I come from Rohnert Park even though we have a small recycling center here . But the people at the Santa Rosa center are friendly and helpful always! read more

Yay! I am a fan. These guys and girls are pretty nice always, sometimes I go and have a cup of coffee from the cashier place and a free pastry. I think these people have the community in mind, and seem ok to me. read more

I bring our aluminum cans here and everyone is always friendly and helpful. No one knows what other people are going through and how much help they may need by looking at them. Treating people with kindness can make someone's day. They do that here. It honestly makes me happy to know that they are part of our community. read more

I take all my recycling here! Best pay out for redeemables. Some stuff does not have a CA redemtion but, if you sort it, it is free drop off! read more

The business manager (Lisa) is rude & unprofessional. She lacks customer service skills. She accused me of weighing down my load so I could get paid more. Basically. she was accusing me of stealing. Everyone else seems really nice except her. Not sure I'll be returning because of her poor attitude towards the customers. read more

They actually really are very nice and get u in and out quickly. The employees seemed to be joking around with each other n like where they work. read more

So my boyfriend and son took our recycle in to cash it in. When they got there they were told they were over the 100 pound limit and they need to have another adult to come down so they could finish. So my son called me to go down. I gladly went and as I walked up I started to talk to a worker there and explained to him what my son had told on the phone and that is why I was there and asked if I could move the truck back inline. This man very Rudely says to me YOU CAN NOT DO THAT! It has to be in a different car all together. I said that's fine I can do that. This man was VERY RUDE to me in front of my son. So I nicely said to the man thank you and I walked over to where my boyfriend was and we were discussing what we were going to do. THIS RUDE MAN walked back over to me and tried to hand me a piece of paper and I kindly declined it and said no thank you can you please just walk away from me. He keep coming towards me and tried to give me the paper and again I told him kindly no thank you just walk away from me I am done talking to you and I will not be returning here ever again. That's when this man started yelling at me. And then he had the nerve to ask my boyfriend to give back the recycling check we received from our cans. Um NO!! I asked him his name and he says to me my name is Curtis and I'm the owners son and he still would not walk away from and continued to follow me to my car he continued to argue with me. ( so unprofessional on his part ). If you go here STAY AWAY from the owners son. And if you have to make a complaint about a worker there good luck. The girls that answer the phones there are just as RUDE!!!! read more

I really enjoy taking our "product" there - I recycle for a local state park and have always found the employees helpful, cheerful and accommodating. I'm there once a month, and have never had a negative experience. read more

Today I went to make a dump run with my new dump trailer. This was only the second time that I have used it. After I dumped my construction debris I proceeded to pull out and I hear this loud BOOM! onto the concrete and I could tell the trailer had come off the ball hitch. Upon inspection I could see that I had somehow bent the receiver that the ball goes into making my trailer inoperable. Of course I was in shock and pretty distressed wondering how I was going to get this trailer back on the road. That's when I met this gentleman who could see that I was frustrated and wondering what I was going to do. Within a couple of minutes he gets on his phone and calls a mechanic to come out and assess the situation. Not only that but he proceeded to talk to me about the history of the place and how long he had worked their. I had no idea I was talking to the President of the company. Kurt was a true gentleman and professional. He taught me a few things today just observing how he takes care of his customers. I also observed how he interacted with his employees and I could tell he has a wonderful relationship with them as well. Kurt, I don't know if you will ever see this but I want to say from the bottom of my heart a big thank you for getting me out of a pinch. And thank you Ray (His mechanic) for your hard work. It was hot out there working on that hitch. You guys went way beyond great customer service fixing my ball hitch so I could get on the road again. I promise I will look for a way to pay it forward. read more