My father passed away a couple years ago and left behind a garage full of tools and broken…read moreappliances that he didn't get around to fixing. As the oldest in the family, it was my responsibility to clear it out. I didn't have the patience nor the time to organize a yard sale, so I searched online for a recycling center. What drew me to Wilmington Recyclers was the fact that they offer 7cents per pound for metal while other places give only 1 cent per pound. Also, compared to other places, they have the most extensive list of items that they will take: ewaste, appliances (large and small), and even car batteries For the metals, they have an in ground scale that weighs the car along with your haul, afterwards, you drop off the metals in a large metal bin, then reweigh you car. There are many different lines for different items, the process can be very overwhelming for a newbie. Robert helped guide us, and walked us through each area. I saw many families turning in their recyclables: a good lesson in reducing waste. FYI: Most staff speak little English, so look for Robert/Roberto if you don't speak Spanish.

They have nice staff and better pricing compared to others, plus they accept more types of…read morerecyclable materials. The smell is also not too bad. However, they recently added a voice recording / answering machine to their phone and nobody answers the calls now. It tells you to press 0 for an operator but then it just disconnects the call.

Best recycling service in Long Beach. I had over 500 lb of printed cardstock I received from Amazon…read morewhich was a third party scam originated in China. I received continuous deliveries including four huge Amazon canvas boxes containing more shipments. I worked with corridor to segregate the recyclable cardstock items with the non-recyclable tags and ribbons associated to some of the products. I had already tried two other recycling companies in Long Beach and they refused to take any of it. Although I did not receive any money for these usable printed items. I was thankful to get them off my hands.

Good customer service. The staff is very friendly and they have helped me on many occasions. I…read morealways have a positive experience.

Ricardo. Best customer service. Fast. Fun. And friendly. Very helpful with recycling and very good…read morecustomer service. Professional and positive

I returned to drop off three trash bags of mostly aluminum and a bit of plastic. The service was…read moreexcellent and again, I love how clean the area is. It's very well-maintained!

Found this place on Yelp when Action Metal Sales across PCH decided to not open at all or close…read moreearly on Halloween Saturday. Wastech is open until 3:00 on Saturdays. The place is relatively clean and seemed pretty organized. They had plenty of baskets for aluminum and rolling trash cans for glass. There was no wait in front of me. They took me immediately. I was in an out in five minutes. They paid $1.83 per pound for my aluminum cans, which I believe is above the state minimum of $1.57 per pound. I got $.105 (10 cents) per pound for my CRV glass- mostly beer bottles. Please note: there is no CRV on wine bottles and other food jars, etc. Those are considered "scrap," and I didn't get any money for them. Just put those in your blue curbside container. You may want to familiarize yourself with the Cal Recycle web page before you stockpile too much recycling at home: http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/bevcontainer/programinfo/FAQ.htm

This place is rigged, i weighted 40lbs of aluminum cans at home and to my surprise they only paid…read moreme for 15lbs. I didn't realize until came back home and looked a t the receipt and cash the guy hand me. Im so reporting this place.

They used located in Torrance .. they moved to Lomita long time ago.. I went many recycling places…read more. venture is the best !! The reason why the rate is good rate !! They accepted Glass , can etc.. We have to do separate the bottle , Green color , clear color and Black color .. Sometimes employees can help for me .. I want to highly recommend!!

After they closed the recycling center in Gardena near Home Depot, I'm glad I found Venture. When…read moreyou shop at Costco and Sam's Club, it's amazing how fast the piles of plastic bottles and aluminum cans piles up. There's only so much microplastic our bodies can store so what to do with the macro portion left over? Sure, I could just dump it in my blue recycling cans, save time, effort, and have people digging through my recycling, dumping the rest of the contents on the street or let the city cash in my hard earned CRV. Nah. The city already takes more than their fair share of my income. The workers at Venture are always friendly and helpful. There is adequate parking and never a shortage of bins to roll over to the scales. The lot is set up so traffic goes one way, making entering and exiting efficient. It is rather grungy but it's a recycling center. I've never seen one that could pass a white glove inspection. Just wear a pair of rubber/vinyl gloves so you don't get gunk on your hands and you'll be fine. There are closer recycling centers closer to home but the guys at Venture make an inconvenient chore into a more pleasant experience.

I was looking for a place to recycle bottles and cans, and I'm glad I found this facility. They…read moreoffer convenient on-site parking, making it easy to unload your recyclables. They also provide containers to sort everything, which made the process even more convenient. It was my first time visiting, and the associates were incredibly friendly, patient, and helpful. The entire process was quick, efficient, and hassle-free. I was in and out in no time, and I was paid on the spot. Overall, it was a great experience, and I'll definitely be coming back. If you're looking for an easy, painless way to recycle your bottles and cans, I highly recommend this place!

Once upon a time, this Faerie Queen had another great experience. Quick, easy, and best of…read moreall...done! The end.

Unbeatable selection,, great service and decent pricing* I…read moregot some amazing deals from this place * decent pricing on most days but not every day

Bruce, Miriam, and Joaquin were amazing from the initial service call through the procurement and…read moremanufacturing process. The result was amazing and they found me a cheaper option (stainless steel instead of bronze) which gave me the result I wanted at a lower price point.

I spent part of yesterday collecting paint cans and other recycling, they were bagged up and in my…read moredriveway at 6 am. At 2pm today I called to see why the recycling was still in my driveway. The rep told me that the truck went to the wrong address. How hard is it to plug the address into GPS? Now I have to wait 2 weeks. How can I be sure that the recycling will be picked up in 2 weeks? Very poor service. I took this photo at 2:30 today.

Western Waste Americas Worst Environmental Disposal Company. Their Blue bin Recycling program is a…read moregame of Stump the Chump! the camera takes unclear pictures, thus the customer pays a $28.00 fine. I refuse to recycle now. Everything goes inside the black container. Problem solved. My hope is Chino Hills contract goes back to Republic in Orange County.

I'm with the others who've mentioned the taller guy with the dog. He was great!…read moreI've been really sick since January, so I brought a lot (for my household) 89 soda cans, 30 large juice bottles, plus a handful of small water bottles and glass cider/beer bottles. The nice guy had taught me that if I knew how many of each type I had, they could just pay out for those amounts. That's why I had everything written down on the outside of each bag. The "new guy" told me, "in the bins", and when I tried to explain what I had going, he just talked over me and said, "IN THE BINS MA'AM!". I tried to understand, or get him to explain, such as, was there a new owner? He never answered that instead just said, "limit of 15 for each type". So, I left. He was so rude! I thought the law was that if you pay a 5c deposit on a bottle, you're supposed to get 5c back?!

No more. I tried to…read moreleave this review via my phone and yelp glitched out and the review didn't post, but instead of taking it as a sign to not bother, fired up my laptop to tell you to beware this place. When the former punk rock listening guy (who has the dog) was there, I had no problems. I would usually get at least $8- $12+ for my bi-monthly collection of aluminum cans, glass, and plastic water bottles. The last time I went to this location, the punk rock guy was gone and there were three new guys there and I only got less than $5. I went back today at 3pm hoping that maybe the dog owning guy was back but I think he's gone. The three guys were there. There were several orange-fence bins full of drinking water bottles in front of the pay-out stand as if they had been abandoned by other angry customers. The employees were arguing with the person in front of me because the customer wasn't able to see the screen for the scale and so there was no way for the customer to verify the weight. They watched me take two full over-sized garbage bags out of my trunk and pour each of them into a fence-bin. Then as soon as they finished with the customer in front of me, said they needed to close for about an hour and were done paying out "for now". It was already 3pm and the place closes at 4 anyways. I said I was leaving and they responded rudely "okay bye" but yelled at me when I took the two bins of *my* recycling back towards my car, so I could just dump everything into my trunk to re-sort at home later for another place (as they had watched me empty and discard my original trash bags, I think they were expecting me to just leave the CRV recycling in their bins). As I was dumping the bins directly into my trunk, they told another customer [I'm] "always crazy like that." Wow. This is only the second time I've interacted with them, and though I suspect I was not paid fairly the first time, I never said anything to them about that. Way to disrespect me in front of my community members. I would rather just give my "CRV money" to the city of Torrance by putting my cans and bottles directly in the curb-pick up bin then deal with the current people who work there.

They over charged us $150 and no one will answer the phone when we call. We took construction trash…read moreto the waste transfer station in Carson, where there is as little person-to-person contact as possible. Looking at the bill afterwards we saw they overcharged us by 68%. We tried calling to get an explanation but no one answers the phone. We feel cheated.

Didn't take trash today. Tried to call the button that says to report missed service doesn't work…read moreand no one was available. I couldn't get through. This is my only way of reporting missed service immediately. For 1330 2nd street, Manhattan beach