Friendly staff. Easy location off I-80 westbound at Gilman and 2nd Street. The process was a…read morelittle confusing at first. There are limited signs telling you how the process works. For you first timers...make sure you separate your aluminum cans from your plastic bottles. Drive in stay in your car, and wait your turn. Then when it's your turn get out of your car and dump your items onto one of two conveyor belts. The attendant will watch the system weigh your recycled items and then give you a ticket. You will then take your ticket to the window where the clerk will print you a check . After I figured out the process, it was pretty easy and I found it to be convenient. I recommend this place for your recycling needs. Now if I could just find a recycle place that also does high volume shredding. All would be good.

Quick and easy process. Open on Saturdays. Free to drop off boxes. I love that you can drive…read moreyourself around to complete what you came to do.

The only problem I have about El Cerrito Recycling Center is the parking spaces. I am horrible on…read morereversing my car and aligning with the space. Am I going to give El Cerrito Recycling Center a bad review...NO! I was able to recycle used motor oil, regular AA/AAA batteries, Bluetooth Speakers, Computer monitors, Computer towers, printers, scanners, perhaps anything I am allowed to recycle at this location. I have been going to the El Cerrito Recycling Center since 1998. This place has gone through a lot of changes especially the parking spaces (yes I will continuing mention that). Thankfully nobody has DARE to trash this location and it is a good thing that they manage to keep the area in great condition. Keep the great work!

Wonderful place to take stuff you need to get rid off…read more I finally got out here with some long fluorescent bulbs that have been in our garage for years and some printer cartridges. It's getting harder and harder to find places that take things like regular batteries, big bulbs and stuff like that but this place takes everything. It's really a well designed place - big giant half circle with all the bins you leave stuff with big signs. I couldn't figure out where to take the bulbs and some guy helped me right away. One thing my wife found out to be great - they take old planters - the things you put plants in. She's been leaving those out for people to take in front of our house and still has a lot. This place takes those. I wish I knew they took books too (just got rid of some old books). Great place and well run.

Todo exelente muy buena atención y muy buen presio a la hora de que uno lleva el aluminio o metalread more

It's been about 7yrs since my last visit here, so an update was kindly requested and honored. (See…read moreattached picture.) They no longer recycle CRV items. I guess lots of changes even more especially during and post-COVID. And for the record, my review was not misleading 7 years ago when they were still accepting CRV recyclables. Just FYI!

I'd like to see the day when consumers get it together to require that the stores that collect all…read morethese very many dollars (hundreds of thousands?) will have to refund the CRV. If they want to restrict that to cans with barcodes that can be scanned as a start, that would be great. There are machines that do that. Other states have them. Those work like reverse vending machines. There are seniors out there on fixed incomes who believe that the CRV is a tax, like sales tax. No, it's supposed to be like a DEPOSIT like in the olden days. Nothing against the people who work at this facility, it's the bigger picture that is a complete rip-off and just adds to California's reputation as MAX Nickle and Dimer Killer. Not just beer and soda bottles and cans now, it's your plastic juice containers, wine bottles, water, many, many beverages. Meanwhile you can drive all the way out here and stand on line and get your refund. I arrived so close to their lunch hour that I elected to head down to Gilman, which is another review.

Slow that's all I can say just slow and it was 5 cars in front of me. It took them an hour to…read moreprocess and only one was loaded. Lunch from 12-1 then they are late getting started so they get a break from 2-2:15. Makes no sense and I'm union.

Called in for a price on clean copper and once I arrived to location they said owner wasn't there…read moreand they gave me a different price per lb on the copper. Man said he was going based off what was in the computer. After seeing the price difference I wanted to separate the copper to make a couple extra dollars since I had it mixed. I asked the man handling the transactions that told me a different price on the copper if he can lend me some clippers and he said he cant let me borrow them yet he had my ID and I was going to do it right in front of him. Words cant explain how frustrated I was. I ended up taking a loss at the end of the day and affected me mentally due to financial struggles.

I appreciate being able to give my recyclables. It was easier than I thought it would be.read more

We emptied a house today of household furniture and trash. This place is a complete rip off. $200…read morefor 1 ton of garbage Then $37 for a fuel charge. Later in the day I went back with a little bit more weight and 2 mattresses. This time I paid $526 which included $96 for the mattresses and 2 fuel charges totaling $56. RIPOFF! Go a little bit further to American Canyon dump. The first 2 mattresses are FREE and 1 ton of garbage is $77

Only if it is Sunday and you are desperate to get rid of stuff. Way way overpriced and are tricky…read moretack in charging you for the smallest stuff. Then, charge you with a fake bloated measurement yardstick, though other places charge by weight or specific recyclable materials like mattresses and large appliances and ewaste, they also inflate these prices and still charge by added weight and yardstick of your load. Triple charging you. Plus, to add insult, charge you a tax and fuel surcharge. Then I realized, "So does Waste Management in San Leandro. Which I also avoid as a business for the same reason. Then discovered, they are also owned by Waste Management. The biggest rip-off and mafia owned management style business model. Avoid this scam transfer station and wait until the following week and can go to the nearby Berkeley transfer station and pay so much less Monday thru Saturday.

Same guy every time. Has a FANTASTIC, can-do attitude and was extremely kind while I sorted the one…read morebag that was not pre sorted. Definitely deserves a raise! Kept the line going and was VERY QUICK to weigh the material and get us in and out! Sometimes ** the line can be long so you should bring a book to read or something. Cashier sounded nice too through the window I could not see through. Haha. I found an ID and left it with her though. See y'all next time for my plastic and glass and aluminum buy backs! Hello 5Cent CRV. (Although it's by pound, see photo)

What service? Extremely lax, no sense of urgency. Don't waste your time waiting. There are far more…read moreefficient places that don't waste your time.

Close to my house, very little wait when I went and plenty of parking. You put your recyclables in…read morethese plastic baskets which they weigh. Payment in cash. Seamless! I shall return :-)

I'm very happy to have a recycling center close to where I live. Before I found out about Sunset…read moreRecycling I had to travel to Berkeley to get decent prices for my recycle. I accidentally discover Sunset Recycling as I was leaving Foothill Square where they are located, decided to try them out and was very pleased. Try out this recycling site I believe you'll like it.