I love the crew at Main Street Recycling! They're friendly and supportive, not like the competitor behind them.

We owe it to our environment, let us recycle. Did you know that almost everything can be recycled in addition to your water bottles and aluminum cans. Main Street recycling also will take your old monitors and television so you don't have to wait for the e-recycling events. If your TV is not working and not fit to be donated this is the place you could bring it. One can also sell your bottles of course along with other metallic items in your household. The allure is that you can drive through the ware house and unload all your recyclables. read more

Main Street Recycling - Recycling Center Near Me - Chula Vista, California

This is a super easy place to pull up and have some workers help you sort through your recyclables. They also accept electronics for FREE! So, now you know where to take your old printers and stuff. For the most part, it's pretty quick and easy to get your $$ and drive off. Would recommend if you're nearby! read more

My go-to for all recycling! Sergio was so helpful & all the workers work for diligently & are so polite. Easy access in & out...easiest place to recycle & quick too! read more

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Haven't been to their new location yet but going on past experience.  They are now at. 1778 Broadway Chula Vista, CA 91911 This is Just South of Main St. on the West side.   They were just OK in their former location if you like drive through only service in that area.   As i recall they did take some electronics as well but mostly i would bring in bags of bottles and cans.  Then i became lazy and started just putting those out in the recycle bin at my residence. Plan to take an old PC monitor there eventually after buying a new one. read more

I think they cheat you on the weight of your recyclables. They've told me the same price 3 times now

Place is ok considering what it is. It takes all kinds of products and is far better than goin to walmarx where you literally have to count out your items after waiting for what seems to be eternity for "customer service" to assist you. That being said, the place looks like the room mate from hell that was in your college dorm does the cleaning and maintenance able there. The staff is friendly enough, but you certainly would not want to hang around and chat It is what it is.... read more

I took my aunt to do her recycle today. As soon as we get there hear this guy yelling and screaming at the employees . Which I found out a little after that was the owner. The owner was running around screaming at the employees in front of customers saying he wasn't going to pay them today, telling them nobody was gonna get a paycheck and kept threatening them to send them home without getting paid. I'm not sure exactly what happened but regardless whatever happened he shouldn't he talking to them like that and cursing at them. I asked the employees for the guys name and they refused to give me his name because they were scared they were gonna get in trouble or fired. Then I hear the owner again screaming the same thing and he starts telling them "fuck you guys" and repeated himself that he wasn't going to pay them and was going to send them home . I approached the cashier and asked her for the guys name and explained to her I would make a complaint and it turned out to be she's the other owner. I told her it wasn't ok for them to treat them like that or talked to them like that and pretty much she stated they're the ones who pay their check and then she asked me "what would you want us to do? Fire them instead?" I told her no but maybe disciplinary actions like a write up would be better then mistreating them like that and pretty much abusing them. Then she tells me to go complaint to god. Like really? This guys are working their butt off and the workers customer service were amazing. They were really friendly even after the owner was screaming at them and pretty much embarrassing them in front of us the customers. When the owner starting telling them "close this fucking place down" and started kicking the workers out one of the workers still continued to smile and said let me finish your recycling first before leaving . They truly don't deserve to be treated like this. That to me looks like harassment and discrimination, maybe , because all the employees appeared to be Hispanic and the owner is a white male? Not to mention the place felt like an oven! No fans or anything that's a complete unsafe work environment . I felt so bad for the employees . This was just horrible. I understand it's just a "recycle place" but they need to learn how to treat their employees and talk to them right. So unprofessional. Last time I'm going to this place. read more

Horrible owner I don't understand how thinking I needed I'd when I didn't warranted being treated as though I did some thing wrong

My first 30 seconds of my conversation was rude and shrugged me off before I can continue, finish what I was going to say. Put someone nicer on the phone with customer service and maybe just maybe, you would have had more customers to work with. My first experience Def drove me away and discontinue my inquiry. Godspeed... read more

Called to see if they would honor a coupon and the guy on the phone said I can roll it up and smoke it. Horrible customer service. Main St was my go to, but not anymore. Went to Mike's recycling and they were awesome. Take that and smoke it Main St!! read more

Dishonest Thieves I brought cans, a bucket of dirty copper, a separate bucket of clean copper and brass here on Wednesday August 23 at 9am. FIrst off they classified all the copper as "class 2" even though it had no solder on it so they could pay less for it. Obviously the workers have been directed or incentivised to pay as little as possible for scrap. No biggie though I just wanted to get this over with so I could move on with my life. The woman at the window skipped all the pleasantries, scanned my ID, took my thumb print and handed me a receipt that I was apparently supposed to use to come back 3 days later and collect the cash for my scrap. Now, at the time I was helping to prepare a funeral service, moving, getting kids prepared to enter school the following week and running a business. So, I lost the receipt. My fault, but I figure no big deal. They have my thumb print, copy of drivers license, video of me walking up to the window and a copy of the receipt in their computer. Should be fine right? WRONG. They refuse to look up my information in their computer even after telling them time and date I was there, showing them my ID and explaining my circumstances. These people literally stole $80 from me. Beware of these people. The owner has made this a dishonest and hostile environment to work and the employees convey that to the customers. Do yourself a favor and find a different place to go. read more

You know I have to say that this place has alot of room but but but the people there these days are as_ holes. I have been going there so long and and the guy running the scale knows me well. I have never had a problem there in over 10 yrs and the lady at the window is very nice. Until today I got the dose of as_hole. The guys did not care what I had to say and then the owner or who ever he thinks he is came running out like a little lady getting his two cents in. I said there are many more places to go who are much more willing and want the stuff and he said I guess you should go there... Will never go back and I hope all of you having the same problems will do the same. It's really ashame because they do have a great set up.... read more

The owner or manager always yelling at the employees. He was disrespectful to me and I rather not share what he said very vulgar he was surprise I call him out the employee said he always disrespectful with clients and he gets away with it. Somebody needs to report him. I just won't go again. And also be careful when his driving the for-cliff he disregards people walking and near him careful with the floors always oily and glasses broken. His office is so dirty and clutter dust webs All over nice lady working front desk though. But Never Again will I come here. No need tto out you with manager//owner ugly attitude. read more

Disrespectful and rude. My aunt was tipping a worker that helped her but the manager yelled at her thinking she was giving away coupons. Although she tried to explain she was just tipping the worker, he just kept yelling at her and not listening to what the situation really was. Do not go here. read more

Been going here since I was a kid and it's usually been ok. Fair prices and hard workers. Today the owner or manager decided to yell at me a customer for where his employees had me park, and for "holding up 20 fucking cars" when the long line I was waiting in was what was holding up the line. (Not to mention there was an empty lane that could have fit like 8 cars) This was very unprofessional and considering the number of recycling plants with the same redemption value I will be going elsewhere next time. I don't recommend this place to anyone who doesn't want to get verbal shit for going about their recycling in a civilized manner. read more

Great place, accept most electronic waste. Open during the crisis, helpful staff. Drive thru is a bit daunting with the ceiling high stacks of pallets. read more

First, the positive. The guy at the scale is the most professional employee there. They have their smartest employee at the scale for a reason. Now, the negative. The "unloader" refused to inform me of the new process to count vs weigh, was badgering me for not knowing the process, and was being a d*ck. I decided to go elsewhere, and informed the front office of the reason. They were sarcastic and said "do you want to hang him and put it on YouTube?" Not professional. Hostile. The person from the front office yelled at me as I walked away. read more

Times are tough with Caronavirus so came down here to recycle a TON of cans I had been saving for a rainy day when I needed cash. Everyone was cool, helpful and the place is oddly artistic with the weird cobweb laden stuffed animals drapped across the drop off area fence, to the blocks of compacted COLORFUL cans stacked a mile high which is like beautiful pieces of art. Oh and kudos to the OG bearskin Burt Reynolds pic on the wall, that is some true kitcsh that only a select few can appreciate or see the nostalgia in. If you're a CV native you know this place compared to others so family owned/run means support them. My only beef for 4 stars was the coupons in the booklet used to be 10¢ more a lb but all the centers on Main St now do 10¢ less. read more

Found a new place to take my recycling and with coupons @1.90+ that is a great price. The men actually come over and help you, which speeds the process up. The only downside? The exhaust Smells are pretty bad. If there was a natural disaster you may get stuck behind all of the cars. Other than that, this place is great! read more

I've been coming here for the last two or three years and I'm going to continue to do so. It's close to my house, big building(drive-in), drive inside and they handle everything, fast and its MONEY! CRV Plastic - O.93 Cents LBS CRV Aluminum Cans - $1.57 LBS CRV Glass- 0.10 Cents LBS Money! Money!! Money!!! read more

My first time here, today. My parents have been urging me to come to this recycling center for many years now. I can understand why they love it so much. They occasionally send out coupons for a few cents extra on CRV items. Let alone, their rates are slightly higher than other recycling centers; so i get more than other places. They even bought my used car batteries, which i usually return them for free. They also do free electronic recycling -- another bonus, because some places, i have to pay them to recycle my electronics. Another bonus is that they do the dirty work for you at a faster rate. The employees there are very helpful and repeat the instructions over & over, because it's loud in there. I wanted to tip them, but they dont accept tips, whatsoever. The downside is that it can get a little congested at the drive thru area, and some stuff they dont take such as non-CRV containers, but you can recycle for free, if you dont have access to recycling at your home, or stained dirty murky bottles -- they give you a choice to dump the liquids or you take it back home to trash it. read more

Wow where to begin about the horrible experience I had while trying to recycle some scrap copper. Im well aware that there is a three day hold on any copper over $20 dollars. But the lady behind the desk who's office is filthy and smells of feces started getting lippy saying that she didn't want to do the paperwork for the transaction and me not want to go throughout with it. I told her don't work to hard now. Then things got ugly she said I own this company and you ain't shit. I told her your office smells like shit and you have a shity attitude her son who does the weighing said thats my mom and I'm gonna knock you out man. Then some man came out and started calling me a faggot and had his hand on his knife holster like he was going to pull it out. I laughed at the whole thing cause I felt like I was part of a three ring circus. Please do not go there. Avoid the terrible service and if your the sensitive type you might end up felling just the way the office looks and smells Shity. read more

I think they are out of business because I tried calling them it says phone number no longer in service gates locked up when I drove by they were fast and convinent when they were open read more

Address: 1751 4th Avenue, Chula Vista, CA 91911. Very quick and efficient recycling center. Drive into building. They help you put recycling in their containers or do it themselves. Then you get your ticket and go to window to get cash. Get in your car and drive out of building. You are Done. read more

Main Street Recycling - View from 4th St. Drive into the driveway straight into building. - Recycling Center Near Me - Chula Vista, California

So I'm new to SD and my husband and I were looking for a new place to recycle. We stopped by Main Street Recycling this morning and had the BEST service we have ever had before at a recycling company. The cashier is super friendly and helpful! On the way out my husband started talking to the man that drives the forklift there. Come to find he is the owner, his name is Lance. Lance made us feel so welcomed and appreciated. 10/10 Fully Recommend! If your looking for a place to take your recyclables, I definitely recommend Main Street Recycling! read more

Hours are from 9:00-5:00. Arrived here at 9:20 and the gates are closed. Not a worker in sight. I called their number about 20 times and no one answered. No option to leave voicemail. Save yourself some time and find a different recycling center! read more

Horrible place to recycle, only reason I came to this place was because its drive up accessible only and they have people who are suppose to sort out your items. When I got here my items were mixed, they told me to go outside because of this , ended up waiting for about 10 minutes for some one to come out, no one came, so i had to separate them myself when this place pays you less for your items because they " have people to do it for you", again no one came out to help me, a lot of employees standing around doing nothing. Manager saw me doing everything by myself and then said " it's a Saturday and its busy" and shrugged, cut my hand on a piece of glass, I didn't bring gloves because I wasn't expecting to do this my self,horrible experience, horrible manager , I would suggest you go somewhere else. I will never return read more

I mostly recycle cans and plastics and I normally bring 3 huge bags. This time I brought about 15 glass bottles as well. They weighed the cans first then the plastic. I was looking at the scale and I noticed it showed -2.2 pounds when they weighed the 15 bottles. They guy changed the scale really quick we he saw I noticed. I think they have their scale rigged at -3 pounds. I would recommend going somewhere else. read more

They are in a big Building the fork lift driver is moving big heavy metal objects letting them drop the sound was so load you could feel it I yelled out the operator he was rued & continued to slam it around 3 more times My ears are still ringing I will not be back. read more

It's fine for recycling, don't be a wus and expect white glove treatment. BIG Tip clean ur dirty scrap aluminum, if it's anodized or painted, sand it, you'll get more money for a few minutes effort... 3 day wait for scrap, it's state law... ONE major complaint: you don't have a website and none of these reviews or location maps have your hours listed... I wanna get my money after 3 days, I wanna know what time you open, without having to drive over there to look... get into the 21st century, get ur own website, and advertise yourself, don't be cheap about it, yer makin' money, make a geek happy and give up a few bucks for a web site!! CALL FOR HOURS DON'T CUT IT WHEN UR ANSWERING MACHINE ONLY SAYS ENTER UR SECURITY CODE (ON BOTH NUMBERS) read more

Went here a couple times. But the scales seem pretty shady. I have stopped going here and go to Mikes Recycling in the back of this center. Where I get 1 1/2 the amount or double what I get from here. Yes its fast, quick, in and out service but at 1/2 the cost of your recycling or more. read more

Rudeness at the highest possible level. Owner told me to never come back. Receptionist raises her voice saying the heat makes workers rude. Never again read more

Take my recyclables to Main Street all the time and they are one of the best if not the best recycling center in San Diego county.

This place is great. So easy to use. Drive right in, the guys are awesome and help you to get all of your recyclables out of the car and into the bins. Very easy...best in San Diego. If you are looking for a place to use, use this place!!!!!! read more

My first time here, I am impressed with their set-up and convenience. I like the drive thru concept and customer service. I was in and out in 5 minutes. Very friendly! read more

I have just learned why this place has a 2 star review. And that is being generous!!! I just came here with my 11 yo son to turn in his recycling that he collects for his money. I realized the employees here shake the basket so bottles and cans drop out and they did not let us pick them up after they dropped about 20 plastic bottles. On our way out I saw a flattened out can right before the sidewalk. I told my son to pick it up. Just as he did the owner in the forklift came out yelling at him and told him to put it down calling him a "fucken retard"! I yelled back and told him not to call my son that when he told me to "shut the fuck up fat bitch" and then grabbed his gentiles and told me to "suck on these stupid bitch". He went on and on and on and all of this was over a can my son picked up!!! It didn't matter that they didn't pay us for those 20 plus they purposely dropped while dumping them in another basket. Had he said that we couldn't pick it up it would have been no problem but he started with the belligerent insults when my son had only done what I asked of him. I never thought this would lead to a rampage of such insults. I just can't believe what I experienced and now I know why people think they are the lowest of the low. I didn't find that out until after. And my son went through a humiliating and horrific experience with this man insulting him as he did. I could not give zero stars but 1 star given was waaaaay too many! Ladies and people beware of this business and the owner!!!! read more

I have to confirm what i just read on line about the person who answers the phone there. He was the so called manager. He was a complete a**hole on the phone. He claims I was wasting his time with simple questions. As a customer you think he would have been trying to help me but he actually told me off on the phone as if I was fighting with him. Its people like him that cause businesses to loose customers. I don't recommend doing any kind of business with this place he has no respect for anyone. He is lucky I was not there in person, it would have ended up very different. read more

Easier to get in and out of than the other recycling centers in the area and their prices are competitive.

Whats better than a drive thru? Lol i love this place its quite interesting And hey its money