This place is super convenient. I make my stop at the library, then here, then the Green Hills Y,…read moreand I love that I can knock out multiple errands at once! What makes it great is that it is my one stop recycling center. They offer bins for cardboard, plastic, aluminum, and glass. Plus the Goodwill drop off truck is right there. Perfect! Places to recycle are not abundant on the West side, so I'm really glad to have found it! My only complaint; they are only open until 5:00 on week days and I can never stop in after work. Even 6:00 would be reasonable for me to get there with plenty of time! Plus they have limited hours on Sunday, so you really need to get in on Saturday if at all possible. Now that I've gone green, I just can't go back! :)

I always do our recycling here and there's a good will drop off for anything you ever need to get…read morerid of!

Always nice to work with . Very helpful pointing you in the right direction. I think everyone…read moreneeds to recycle

Since my building does not offer recycling services (we're still in the South and way behind the…read morecurve sometimes), I have to either hire someone or haul it myself. I prefer this center since it's somewhat of a nice drive, fairly easy to access, open 24/7/365(6), and located directly next to a park if I want some green space time, too, thereby making my trip efficient. It's usually cleanish, but in my last few visits the place looks more like a dumping ground; specifically the cardboard bins. They are stuffed and overflowing to the point where folks just pile their cardboard on the ground next to the containers. (Unless it's me who wants to find every tiny space in the bins to shove the cardboard into.) Perhaps this is due to the increase in ship-to-home? Regardless, it's a problem that I've not yet seen a resolution to. I've actually been delaying hauling my recyclables knowing that the holidays have likely only added to the frustration of bin availability. Since this center is located in the back corner of the lot for McGavock High School, there is ample parking for unloading recyclables. However, turning into the lot from the road can be a bit tight. It's just a weird turn for some odd reason. Also, when the buses are running for the school year, keep an eye out for them as they will come flying into this lot for overnight parking. Since I last took photos, there are updated signs to instruct what can and cannot be placed into the bins. I recently noticed on the Nashville.gov website that the recyclables list has changed. I was sad to learn that some of the plastic containers that are 100% recyclable the city can no longer take only because they do not have a buyer for those specific items. I also learned some of my paper pieces were too small, so now when I scrub my mail I make sure to take care to leave the paper in larger pieces so they're recyclable. Anyway, the list is very well assembled and incredibly detailed. What's the point in recycling if we don't do it correctly? Go check it out.

I work for a flooring company and for so long we were filling up our dumpster with loads of carpet…read moreand pad. This place recycles carpet and pad!!! So helpful and convenient for us. Save money and it's good for the planet!! Awesome.

Absolutely bottom tier - even for a scrapyard. They have no respect for their customers or…read morethemselves. Go literally anywhere else. They should be ashamed of themselves for the way they interact with people.

The business is extremely disgusting , theres a heavy stench of dead creatures around the large…read moremound outside and the building inside. Apart from the crazy prices the owner provides for scrap, they have multiple wild cats that wonder around the building, I couldn't even enter.

Staff is nice but brush you off to get through their day. Prices suck (they took off 52 pounds for…read morea SHOPPING CART?!?!?!?) they DO NOT give cash. It takes them a week to give you or mail you a check. They cheat you out of your copper! We will definitely never go back.

PSC metals purchases used metals. For a complete list you can call them up, but copper and aluminum…read more(cans) are two that the local PSC had going on while I was there. If you want to sell to them, the address is on South 2nd Street about a block away from the address listed here (google maps says it's about 591 South Second Street.) As a first timer, you'll park in the lot, stand near your vehicle and wait for someone to get you a pre-sale ticket. For me, they then provided a dumpster for my rather hysterically small load (I wanted a shopping cart) and took it to weigh the thing. While it's being weighed, you go to the window next to it, and give them your ID and thumb print. A ticket will be given to you and they can mail you a check or you can come back and pick it up another day. Prices are meh on purchases, but it's not like there's a huge availability of places to go. Yes, this is that giant metal/car dump you see when you pass south/east of Nashville. It looks and smells a little rough, but everyone was nice and after learning where the signs were that told all of this information I managed to get through pretty quickly.

Had a great experience. Took some ammo brass there and got paid a lot more than I thought I would…read more Very nice people.

Got cans or scrap metal? Take it to SA recycling. The staff is friendly and helpful and the process…read moreis simple, and you get cash on the spot! I've been taking my cans here for years so that I know they are getting recycled and made into something new.

DO NOT GO HERE! We've been scrapping aluminium here for years. We haven't been up here for awhile…read morebut evidently it is under new management and we left feeling totally screwed over. He counted the same items that we've always brought way differently than any other person that we've ever dealt with. We will not be back.

I have been to SA to sell my saved up scrap metal and I have been taken advantage of many times in…read moremy life and I have been told not to go to SA but I did anyway and it was a very enjoyable experience and the employees that were working on the forklift and were very helpful and informative and I was even given helpful tips on how to get the best possible price for the metal. I have no complaints and would most definitely recommend that you make your own decisions after you go there .as for me I would say SA is your best bet .

First time ever going to a scrap yard. The woman working at the desk was very patient, nice, and…read moreanswered all my questions. Would definitely recommend this location. If you are looking to buy antiques they also have some items for sale.

Im in Franklin tennesse a lot each year for business so leaving a review here as this place was…read morehorrible for a long time. We needed somewhere close to the convenience center & new owners have taken over & done a great job. Place looks completely different and they pay pretty good for things you'd throw away. Thanks guys great doing business with you.

It's hard to recycle ... period. There's so many rules to follow, and they differ based on what…read morecity and/or county you're in. Not to mention, if you live in an apartment, you most likely don't have access to a recycle bin that you can roll out to the curb every two weeks. However, spaces like the East Convenience Center are working hard to make recycling easier. After the holidays, I had a mountain of cardboard, along with various other recyclables (plastic, metal, glass ... all of the things). This center is free to use once per day for Davidson County residents - you just pull up during operating hours and hand over your ID to prove your residency. The folks at the booth are friendly as can be, and they've been happy to answer any questions I had, especially on my first visit. I have yet to encounter a long wait to drop off my materials, but I've heard Saturdays can get a little busy. Pro tip - pre-sort your recyclables beforehand to keep your visit quick. Glass, plastic, metal, and paper (excluding cardboard) are all located in easy-to-access bins. If you pull further into the center, there's a separate section for cardboard. The East Convenience Center does allow other types of waste disposal ... you'll want to reference their website for specifics (and it might have a cost associated with it, depending on what it is you're dumping). I'm thankful to have this easy-to-use recycling center so close to my home ... and can't wait to see the city continue to expand and improve spaces like this.

Have to show ID and or prove you are a Davidson county resident. Was all loaded up with cardboard,…read moredidn't have my wallet... tried to show my address using my contact information in my phone but she was going to let me through...

Let's see - back in April 2021 they reached out to us looking to place a recycling carton on our…read morelot. We had a bunch of e-waste, we'd worked with the company before when it was known as Ecycler-USA or similar. It showed up in May. We asked for pickup in May for the 26th of 2021 - it was full. So, I get two calls and an email to verify that they'll pick up. I get an email on the 26th of May saying they had a driver issue and couldn't get a driver. No big. June 3rd 2021, after another call or two and an email I get a note they'll be there on the 4th and to be ready... oh I'm ready. Note here - I did not log the calls, the emails are all I have straight up proof on. The month goes by, nobody shows, I contact them via email again. I honestly thought the whole thing had been taken but nope. Late July I get in touch with Garry, the new manager at Scott Recycling who this was the first he's heard about anything. We're finally scheduled by these people for a pickup of July 23rd. That comes and goes, they call a couple of times before to verify someone will be here... yeah - phone call or two and let's skip ahead to November of 2021 - 181 days have passed, I didn't actually log the phone calls and at one point I had assumed in July they picked up the bin as one of my coworkers had said it'd been picked up. Nope. November 3rd I get an email back from Jessica who apologizes and says it'll be taken care of. Nope. 12-20-2021 208 days of that box being in the elements they get a truck out there after I call. Bam, truck shows, I get a call from dispatch that they will not take it claiming there's trash in the bin. I run down there to see what they're talking about and the trash is, for the most part, the bin itself. It was carboard, exposed to the elements for 208 days. The drivers tell me they will not take that box. I ask if we can put the stuff in another box, they say yes but they're not touching the box on our property or the pallet they left. There were 3 water bottles and an instruction manual someone had chucked in there - that was the extent of the trash. I removed it. I don't know who put it in because I didn't guard the box for 208 days. I got a coworker to help me transfer the stuff to their new box and roughly halfway through moving it I am told to stop because they won't take any wet electronic stuff. The box has been sitting outside waiting for pickup since May. 7 months. It's all soaked. Everything is wet, any computer at this point was wet. I'm more irate than I should be to employees of their company who are just doing what their dispatch asks, I apologize to the people who were there in writing. I apologized in person, told them I'd take it up with the BBB. Scott Recycling has abandoned a pallet, and a soaked carboard box of e-waste we collected and set out for them. Due to their not picking it up any of the times they've said they would, said e-junk and box has been soaked and the batteries that are in there have probably contaminated the ground around it. That's about that. I have emails, photographs, don't have the phone call records, but pretty much all of this is well documented. Even if they don't take the e-waste we've collected for them, we're now on the hook to throw away their box and pallet.