At this place I love to find my children's Christmas presents. They just absolutely love banana…read morepeels and orange rinds. My youngest daughter "Suzy" loves the watermelon rind at night. I just wish my house wasn't being took away and my car because I would definitely fill those places with things from here. Please stay in business FOREVER because I absolutely love this amazing place. Oh, look now I'm crying. Thanks for existing, Linda.

It was a rainy Weds afternoon during our Little Traverse summer vacation. Swimming and biking were…read moreout, and we had been pondering what to do. We arrived four days ago, and we still had a large bin of returnables the previous guests at our condo had left behind. Could we take a garbage bin into D&W's to collect a refund? We're not accustomed to taking any cans back to the grocery store. Being from a different state, we merely throw our cans into the recycling bin and set it at the curbside. Reading about it a little bit, we discovered the story of the Kentucky man who was busted for trying to import 10,000 refundables into the state. Although the bin seemed pretty full, we calculated that we probably didn't have 10,000 cans, but at the same time, was it worth the risk? That's when we discovered the Emmet County Transfer Station/Recycling Center. Conveniently situated near Nubs Nob and accessible to both Petoskey and Harbor Springs, we were anxious to get our short trip started. My wife and I loaded up the bin in our SUV and started the trek. We easily found the center, with clear signage on Pleasantview Road. We were greeted by a friendly man at the gate who pointed us in the right direction, but who also reassured us that it would be ok to take the returnables back to a store for a refund. "You just feed it into the machine at the store, no problem. But It's up to you- if you want to dump 'em off here, go right ahead." We had already been to the grocery store for the day and our vehicle was starting to smell a bit like stale Leinenkugel (who drinks Wisconsin beer in Michigan? but I digress). Also, my wife reminded me that we did not purchase the bottles and cans in our bin, so we were in no way deserving of the ~$10-15 refund that would have been coming our way if we had taken the bin to a store. So we decided to take the two left hand turns to get to the mixed receptacle. It took us about four minutes to unload our bin. Our only complaint is that the portals for disposal were too small and poorly positioned to dump them all out en masse. We enjoyed viewing the recycling art situated not too far from the receptacle. We didn't plan on a Little Free Library, either. Maybe someday when it's not raining! All in all, we're very pleased with our experience. 4.5/5 A .5 reduction for the small dispensing portals, even if we can imagine the presumed reason for them is so people won't steal cans and take them to the store. It still subtracted from our experience. I don't want to overstate this complaint- the opening was big enough to easily throw 2-3 cans or bottles at a time through, so it's user friendly enough. Just don't expect a quick dump and dash. But it was well worth the $10-15 we didn't collect on the returnables. Apparently, you can't leave partial stars on Yelp, so I'm going to go ahead an upgrade it to a 5/5 since I'm still buzzing from the experience.

Went to drop off scrap metal. Came in and the open sign was on. Weighed our load full, dropped…read morescrap, weighed ourselves empty, then when we came to the window she answered the window, "what do you want?!" We told her we dropped scrap off and her response was, "I don't know anything about it! You came during our lunch hour." We stated her open sign was on, and she said, "well that's ALWAYS on!" After pitching a fit we got our money for it. There was nobody around to give us instructions when we pulled in and their open sign was on! I will NEVER do business with these rude a** people again!

From the owner: Grandpa's Garage Provides Ferrous Metals, Non Ferrous Metals, Scrap Containers, Appliances, Mixed…read moreSteel, Tool Steel, Copper, Stainless Steel, Batteries, Township Cleanups, Carbide, SEG Steel, Brass to the Traverse City, MI Area.

This was my first time at this center. Rebecca made everything very simple. She also informed me…read moreabout different services they provided. I will definitely be back! Thank you

I dropped off 177 pounds of scrap steel and electric motors. It was my first visit (6/2/22), and…read moreit couldn't have gone better. The woman in the office helpfully and patiently walked me through the process - driving onto the scale, entering the yard, the two locations at which I'd drop off my scarp, etc. She cleared up steps I misunderstood. And she satisfied my curiosity about the processing of the scrap, by describing how it was handled here and, subsequently, at Padnos' operation in Grandville. She and another staffer who assisted were a pleasure to work with.

Mark and his partner were polite and tasks were did efficiently. The couch and loveseat are gone…read moreYey!

They no showed the job and refused to respond to communication. Wildly unprofessional and caused…read moreincredible disruption to my schedule.

Stinks stinks stinks filthy filthy filth god awful place BUT a well needed place for those items we…read moreneed to get rid of safely , glass, newspapers and just junk. Well bottom line somebody needs to do this job and glad it is not me!!!ugh ugh ugh ‍ thanks

They broke my recycle bin & STILL hasn't replaced it. Do…read morewe have more than this company available ?

Excellent customer service; very, very reasonable rates and many options to choose from. Friendly…read moredrivers who are customer oriented. I've always had a good exchange with this company and recommend it highly. I would say, based on earlier reviews (years old), the situation is vastly improved and the focus is on customer satisfaction.

Great service and set up polite employees helpful fair pricing central location easy roadsread more

Tried to cancel this summer and they kept it pending and continued charging for the dumpster. We…read morehave their dumpster still sitting here after many phone calls for them to remove it. Total incompetence and thievery.