Did you know that humans produce over 460 million metric tons of plastic every year? After learning this, the first thought that came to my mind was 'This is a huge number! How much actually is this?' Consider this: This is more weight than the weight of the Eiffel Tower (Paris), Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco), Brooklyn Bridge (New York), Empire State Building (New York), Statue of Liberty (New York), Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italy), Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt), Burj Khalifa (Dubai), Space Needle (Seattle), Tokyo Skytree (Japan), The Pentagon (Virginia), and the Great Wall of China, COMBINED, TIMES SEVEN! That's A LOT of plastic! Worse yet, we produce this amount of plastic EVERY year, and studies predict that it takes approximately 450 years for a plastic bottle to decompose in a landfill. That means that the plastic bottle that you throw in the trash will still be there for approximately 18 generations of your descendants after you. If you don't recycle, you are literally trashing our planet for your own offspring! And, Earth is the only planet that we know of that is capable of supporting life. OK, I'll get off my soapbox now. Aside from trying to be a good citizen of planet Earth, I also recycle because I could always use some extra cash. Whenever I recycle, I can usually pocket somewhere between $20 and $40. It's nice to get a little extra cash, right? This particular location is a great option for recycling, here at the "A.V. Recycling Center" (Lancaster, California). I've been to this location several times. It's usually a pretty busy place, usually with a few other folks recycling here as well. Even though it can be a little busy, three of the things I like about this location are: (1) they typically do not require you to show your I.D. like they do at some other locations, (2) they are careful to weigh your items and then tare the weight of the bins for an accurate measurement, and (3) the weight and calculation are visible to the customer, to give the customer confidence in the honesty of the men who work here. As I mentioned earlier, it's a little busy here, but there are a few good reasons to recycle here instead of recycling at another location. I'll definitely return to this location in the future. If you don't recycle here, please recycle somewhere. read more

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This is the place I recycle. I would have liked to see a few more people working on the intake of recyclables to speed up the process. Overall it is a good and local place I can bring my recyclables. There are other local places but when I find a place to do business I seldom switch. read more

Recycling made easy! The staff was hard working and responsive. Would definitely go there again.

For businesses now they need to definitely update their hours every time they close there shouldn't be a reason why this person actually this business didn't update the website say that they're closed due to weather additions yes clearly it's raining but also you need to be aware that your online status says that you're open gave you a one star because you really need to work on things like that it's 2021 about to be 2022. Unless you don't care about social networking you should take your business off the website read more

They said they closed at 5:00 and told me to be here at 4:45 I was there at 4:42 and they still wouldn't let me in they were rude and very inconsiderate they didn't want to finish working their shift.. read more

If I could give less than a star, I would. They are crooks, liars, and disgusting people who had no issues talking horribly about customers coming to recycle. They also had no problem asking one another what hair color they thought my female area was either. They just spoke to each other in Spanish because they assumed I could not understand them. I made it a point to call ahead and verify I could be paid the CRV redemption if I brought my aluminum cans, glass bottles, and plastic beverage containers to be recycled there. I was assured I would be paid as such. I made sure to pre-count all my recycling before leaving for the facility as well. I had 832 aluminum soda cans, 229 glass beer bottles, and 302 2-liter plastic soda bottles in total. Here is what I was given: Aluminum 6.0 lbs @ $1.68 = $10.08; 53 lbs @ $0.15 = $5.57; and 11.0 lbs @ $1.32 = $14.52. A total of $30.17! They are liars, scammers, and I felt them to be quite misogynistic as well. 0/10 NEVER RECYCLE AT AV RECYCLING!!! read more

Awesome Free place to gett rid of e-waste, 24-7!!!! It was nice to not have to pay, or wait for a recycling event somewhere to get rid of old electronic junk. read more

Place is a joke ... They offered me $60 for a Toyota Corolla Catalytic Converter ... TF! Online prices are at $130 and thats before Platinum & Silver went up in price ... Yeah f*ck this place trying to rip people off read more

this place is awesome , workers work hard very few customers are grateful , everyone complaining most likely always go back lets remember these workers also have families sp closing a couple minutes early is no problem completely understandable keep up the great work read more

Called to get info and time they close. I was told that they close at 5pm. I travel for miles to get there and waste gas. I had 10 minutes to spare. They wouldn't let me in because they really close at 4:45pm at won't take anyone in. I spoke to the manager and explained that no one told me that your policy is really to close at 4:45 when I called, he was too busy texting that he couldn't care less. Called to speak to the office same secretary says that she didn't mention it because I didn't ask. Really I'm supposed to be a mind reader and know that you really close 15 minutes before posted time because you want to get home earlier? read more

They are Amazing, great pay out for your recycling. First place that I've been to that took milk cartons. Thanks Jose for all your help.

They said our bottles had water in them, but we said no, they were crushed bottles. They wanted to give us only half the money. So we had to put all our bottles back into bags ourselves. At other times we have counted bottles and taken it there, and have only gotten a little over half the amount we would have gotten had we went to a recycling machine. So instead of 5 cents a bottle, less than 2 1/2 cents a bottle. We will never come here again. read more

Woman in front of me had less than I did. On the signature paper, she was written up at approximately $43. The associate wrote my paper up at $46, tossed it into a bin, then re-wrote it at $31. Rather this is the actions of one associate or the whole company, I do not know, but the issue will more than likely be shown to the Better Business Bureau. Absolutely unacceptable. read more

Parking is a pain. They dont have that many barrels for you to use. Ive been to better recycling centers.

Very unprofessional employees. Because we had a full basket of 100% crushed bottles, (he was amazed of the weight, because they were all crushed) and told us that they all must have lots of water in them. The unprofessional "so called employee" told us he would take our bottles for 50% or their worth. We refused and took our bottles back. This place isn't even worth 1 star. Be careful, they will try to rip you off! read more

I came in with a truck and trailer full of metal to get no help call beforehand they said they took Wheels with tires on them I unloaded them had to load them all back up by the time i got done go to cash in my cans and I was too late very rude employees read more