They do express drop, which is all I ever do now. Bring a bag of cans and bottles, the machine will…read moreprint a label, attach it to your bag, drop and walk away. No dirty hands, no time wasted. The location is awkward to get to, on the back roads from Gilmore/Douglas. The parking lot is small - often get stuck waiting for cars to come and go.

It a great place to go for ur bottles they have the express and take electronics so sign up for the…read moreexpress easy. You just drop it off. They started it. You get the money in your account.

It's a big deal. Staff is nice. Takes back electronics and all stuff like that parking is in the…read moreback so just so you know gives five cents for beer cans or eight cents I'm not sure I can't remember. Just don't bring beer to this location beer cans.

I had a few bags of bottles and cans to recycle and with the pandemic, the usual places I dropped…read morethem off have stopped accepting them. Turned to google and found out Return-It depots are opened to accept items for recycling. This outlet is near metrotown on imperial. Parking is at the rear. The place is spacious with tables spread out. There is a sink with soap dispenser available to wash your hands. Trays are there for you to put your recyclable bottles/cans for easy counting and carrying to the counter. It is very efficient. As recycling is more of my purpose rather than the refund of the deposit, I did not really pay attention to the actual amount I should get. Plus it all happened so quickly. This place also accepts clothes (or textiles), paint, lightbulbs, batteries, small household appliances and electronics for recycling. This will be my go to place to recycle those textiles and other items in future. Plus I really like it that this place is clean.

Just found out about this place when I went to the Richmond Recycling Depot as well as Value…read moreVillage Donation. I wanted to drop of a glass coffee table, but both the donation centre as well as the recycling depot wouldn't accept it. It was something to do with the place cannot take such a big glass. This was my first time to the Ecowaste Industrial and it's definitely a useful place to know when you can't donate or recycle items. This is the last stop and basically the "graveyard" for unwanted items. This is basically where the landfill is, but I was surprised at how organized it was. There was a person at check in to tell you which number to drop your item at and if it will cost money. Note: There is no one to help you so you have to unload everything yourself and lots of big trucks around.

Our generation has been "the" generation of excessive consumption and over packaging, I recall as…read morekid, our parents would go shopping with their own bags / baskets, and most items were packaged in either paper, tin, glass or other materials that are not as environmentally damaging. Nowadays, even if you try not to use plastic it impossible to do so without a day you don't go through some sort of disposable plastic materials!! It is a sad situation. Here comes the part that we can all chip in, and try to recycle as much as we can under our control. I have been using this depot for over 15 yrs. and had always find the facility well maintained and well laid out. Bring all your recyclable items here be it newspaper, plastics and other household items that you want to discard, and do our part to keep our environment a bit healthier!!

I didn't know about his place until last weekend when I was looking for a place to recycle my…read moremicrowave. This place is a fabulous idea and hassle free !! Located in Richmond and open Tuesday to Sunday 9am to 6pm. You drive into the location in your car, drop the stuff you want to recycle, and drive off. The place is super organized with bins for various objects and the place is clean. I like that the bins have names on it with a picture for easy sorting. The people are super nice and helpful. If you are unsure about what they can take to recycle, there is a website and a phone number. Some things that you can bring to this place to be recycled are: -used books -styrofoam -grass and garden trimmings -cooking oil and animal fat -lightbulbs -batteries and cell phone -paints, solvents, pesticide -recycling supplies -cardboard -magazines, mix paper, newsprint -plastic containers, plastic bags -metal food & beverage container -glass bottle and jar -aerosol cans -refrigerator -scrap metal -large appliances, power tools, exercise equipment -hot water tanks -small appliance and power tools -aluminum

Good Depot, they're nice people still a lot of undesirable…read morepeople that go there but quick and fast service. I do recommend this Depot.

I was looking for a place that takes e-waste and it was pretty convenient that they take all kinds…read moreof things, including your standard cans / bottles. You simply drive straight into the parking lot and drop off your e-waste on pallets. There were a lot of random things already there like bulky TVs, monitors, etc. You might as well take any cans / bottles that you have at the same time. There's an express option if you don't have the time to wait around or if you don't want to manually count your containers. 1) Sign up for an account on their website. 2) Enter your phone number into the kiosk and print labels. 3) Stick 1 label on each bag of recycling (bags must be clear). 4) The containers will be counted for you, and the money will be direct deposited into your bank account. You can even export an excel that shows the quantities of each container that was counted. The only catch is that there is no guarantee that they will accurately count your bags. The first time I went to the Collingwood location, only 5 out of the 6 total bags were counted. I went again this weekend and tried my luck at the 2639 Kingsway location, and only 5 out of the 7 bags were counted. If contactless drop off is more of a priority to you then this would be a great option. But if you actually care about getting the accurate $ amount, the best way is to just count it all yourself.

I went there today (Apr 20, 2025) with a couple hundred or so bottles and cans that accumulated…read moreover the last while. I was also getting over being sick the past few days and had some errands that accumulated, so time was of the essence. When I arrived, there was only 1 cart and no trays. I grabbed the cart and wheeled it into the customer receiving/counting area but there was no one there. I waited a couple of minutes and no one came out even though I saw at least one worker eyeball me from back inside of their work area. I figured no one was coming so I decided to wheel the cart to my vehicle. I then stacked my bottles and cans as neat as I could, 12 per row. By the time I finished I was concerned that if I wheeled it to the customer service area, that the cans and bottles would tumble over into a mess. Earlier I saw that a worker came out to another customer's car and seemed to do the count there, for the same reason since that customer also didn't have any trays. I left the cart at my car and walked into the customer service area. Again, no one was there. I could see a worker or two who looked at me, however no one came out. A few literal minutes later, another customer drove in and came in through the other (north) door. Shortly thereafter a worker came out but instead of asking me if I needed help, the employee immediately asked the other person if he needed assistance. Fine, I thought, I'll wait until he was done. He mentioned something about needing a pallet but I really didn't pay attention. After he left, I expected that the worker would help me, however by this time 2 other customers came in after me, both with carts, and the employee started helping them without saying anything to me or even thinking to herself why this person had been standing in the area for the last several minutes. I realized that by the time the worker finished with the other customers and got to me, a significant amount of time would have passed and quite frankly I still had other errands to run. I calculated things out and determined it would be quicker for me to simply pack up my items and load them back into my car- which is exactly what I did. The whole time I reloaded everything back into my car, no one came out to check on me or even ask if I was stealing these items. Ironically after loading everything, I noticed that there was a scruffy looking person who arrived on a bike, who looked like he was in fact stealing bottles and cans. I was loaded up and ready to go, and given my experience was not motivated to speak up about this. Even if I wanted to, I don't think I could have gotten the attention of any employee even if I fired a flare into the sky. I'm happy to find another place to offload my items and just need to ensure that wherever I do business is not linked to this chain or mother company.

I drove here twice during the past six months to get rid of non-functional/broken appliances…read more Before discovering this place (here on Yelp, of course!) I really had no idea what to do with my old vacuum cleaner and my crockpot from the dinosaur age. Seriously, it's not easy to get rid of this kind of stuff anymore! So I was thrilled to find this place, and the whole process of unloading this kind of stuff was so easy! Finding the place is the most difficult part of the whole process; it's in an industrial area, parallel to Terminal Ave, just a few minutes away from the Science Center. Luckily, there is a sandwich-board sign by the road, marking the entrance to their huge, unpaved parking lot. Once I found the place, I pulled up to a large, opened garage door on the warehouse there, and I saw a guy loading stuff into various bins. I asked him if I could just put my stuff down by the bins and he said sure. I dumped my stuff and left. I mean, how much easier can offloading your junk be? I believe this place is open every day of the year, and the have long hours, too. Can't beat that! (Writing this, I am reminded that I have a broken NutriBullet I should bring there soon. Glad I found this place, as my condo doesn't have the storage to keep broken appliances hanging around).

They had a really pushy employee there, and they fired him after he yelled at me for not taking a…read morecart outside. The guy was obsessive compulsive about recycling I guess, but his intrusive nature and following me around the tiny place stressed me out so much o dropped my stuff on the floor and walked out. He came outside and yelled at me as I was getting into my car! My experience was bad and the next time I went there I was prepared for him but he was already gone!

If you go to the Encorp site you will notice that this location has a 5 star rating…read more I think that they deserve it. The service is friendly (run by a Korean family) and it is clean, efficient and they have a sink for you to wash your hands after disposing of those sticky icky bottles. http://www.encorp.ca/cfm/index.cfm?It=902&Lo=300,17&Se=2&St=Richmond&Sv=depot

Besides the usual bottle returns they have full facilities for metal, tin, large and small…read moreappliances, cardboard, paper, electronics. You just pull in, dump your stuff on your way to Home Depot.