Besides the usual bottle returns they have full facilities for metal, tin, large and small…read moreappliances, cardboard, paper, electronics. You just pull in, dump your stuff on your way to Home Depot.

Been using the Recycling Alternative for quite a few years now at work. We've used the recycling…read moreservice, where they come and pick up our paper and paper products for recycling. We keep 6 large bins in our storage that we fill up with paper, cardboard, and shredded material and when they are full we give them a call and ask them to pick them up. Pick up is usually done the same week, but occassionally we've called later in the week and they have already done our area that week, so the pick up gets scheduled for the week following. Works out well for us. There hasn't been much of an increase in the price of the service over the years. They managed to reduce their fuel costs by adding new and more advanced trucks to their fleet, which allows them better fuel economy, so they didn't have to pass on increased costs to the customers. Great business, wonderful service, and very reasonable prices.

Zero stars. Have been trying to get bins from them for months. Never delivered the pink bin. Always…read morepromises next week, but never follows through. Will come up with every excuse possible instead of being accountable. Imo, sleazy practices and the contract for residential recycling should have never been awarded to them.

I went there today (Apr 20, 2025) with a couple hundred or so bottles and cans that accumulated…read moreover the last while. I was also getting over being sick the past few days and had some errands that accumulated, so time was of the essence. When I arrived, there was only 1 cart and no trays. I grabbed the cart and wheeled it into the customer receiving/counting area but there was no one there. I waited a couple of minutes and no one came out even though I saw at least one worker eyeball me from back inside of their work area. I figured no one was coming so I decided to wheel the cart to my vehicle. I then stacked my bottles and cans as neat as I could, 12 per row. By the time I finished I was concerned that if I wheeled it to the customer service area, that the cans and bottles would tumble over into a mess. Earlier I saw that a worker came out to another customer's car and seemed to do the count there, for the same reason since that customer also didn't have any trays. I left the cart at my car and walked into the customer service area. Again, no one was there. I could see a worker or two who looked at me, however no one came out. A few literal minutes later, another customer drove in and came in through the other (north) door. Shortly thereafter a worker came out but instead of asking me if I needed help, the employee immediately asked the other person if he needed assistance. Fine, I thought, I'll wait until he was done. He mentioned something about needing a pallet but I really didn't pay attention. After he left, I expected that the worker would help me, however by this time 2 other customers came in after me, both with carts, and the employee started helping them without saying anything to me or even thinking to herself why this person had been standing in the area for the last several minutes. I realized that by the time the worker finished with the other customers and got to me, a significant amount of time would have passed and quite frankly I still had other errands to run. I calculated things out and determined it would be quicker for me to simply pack up my items and load them back into my car- which is exactly what I did. The whole time I reloaded everything back into my car, no one came out to check on me or even ask if I was stealing these items. Ironically after loading everything, I noticed that there was a scruffy looking person who arrived on a bike, who looked like he was in fact stealing bottles and cans. I was loaded up and ready to go, and given my experience was not motivated to speak up about this. Even if I wanted to, I don't think I could have gotten the attention of any employee even if I fired a flare into the sky. I'm happy to find another place to offload my items and just need to ensure that wherever I do business is not linked to this chain or mother company.

I drove here twice during the past six months to get rid of non-functional/broken appliances…read more Before discovering this place (here on Yelp, of course!) I really had no idea what to do with my old vacuum cleaner and my crockpot from the dinosaur age. Seriously, it's not easy to get rid of this kind of stuff anymore! So I was thrilled to find this place, and the whole process of unloading this kind of stuff was so easy! Finding the place is the most difficult part of the whole process; it's in an industrial area, parallel to Terminal Ave, just a few minutes away from the Science Center. Luckily, there is a sandwich-board sign by the road, marking the entrance to their huge, unpaved parking lot. Once I found the place, I pulled up to a large, opened garage door on the warehouse there, and I saw a guy loading stuff into various bins. I asked him if I could just put my stuff down by the bins and he said sure. I dumped my stuff and left. I mean, how much easier can offloading your junk be? I believe this place is open every day of the year, and the have long hours, too. Can't beat that! (Writing this, I am reminded that I have a broken NutriBullet I should bring there soon. Glad I found this place, as my condo doesn't have the storage to keep broken appliances hanging around).

We found Adam's Junk Removal & Yard Services through Craigslist, and it was a great find!…read more Adam was able to fit us in for some junk removal with little notice (contacted him on Tuesday for junk removal on Wednesday) for our business. He gave us a quote based on some pictures we sent, and the final price wasn't very much different (we kept adding stuff to the original pictures we sent him for the quote). In the end, we found him to be reasonably priced. It's a one-man show, but Adam was able to do it all. He was professional, courteous, personable, friendly and fast! He was also quick to respond to messages. We definitely wouldn't hesitate to recommend Adam to anyone, and we wouldn't hesitate to call on him again! Thanks Adam!

We needed someone who could do yard work and junk removal. Adam is terrific. He cleaned up and…read moreweeded the yard and garden beds, delivered and spread mulch, tore down an old shed, built a base and put together a new shed and fixed our fence. Adam also took care of disposing of all waste. He is reliable, takes pride in his work, easy to reach and to communicate with. His quote was reasonable with no surprises. We will definitely use his services again and would recommend him to others.

At it's barest, it's a large bottle depot. They have room for about 30 people to sort and more bins…read moreand tables than any other recycling facility in the lower mainland. There's no recycling for electronics, bring those to FreeGeek, and paper here, but I don't think the users of this faculty are too inclined to bring those in. The line up, that can last for an hour, is right in the middle of hastings and entirely of the city's binners. These unemployed or underemployed citizens manually pick out the recyclables everyone else threw out, returning them for nickles and dimes; a meager wage or welfare subsidy. Drug dealers and thieves peddle their wares outside for the cash earned from an honest days work, dealing and smoking crack behind a solid wall of humans, bags, carts, and bottles, It's nice to know that our city is kept substantially cleaner, and we save so much land fill space because of places and opportunities like this. But I truly resent that this is the closest bottle depot in my neighborhood.

This is a bottle recycling facility. With deposits on…read morebottles at 20 cents for large bottles, I decided to return bottles for deposits. That will be the last time I got to a bottle depot. I found out it's possible to bring 24 bottles or fewer to a store. Anyway, this facility is in the heart of neighborhood with a lot of homeless people and drug addicts. It seemed like a safe neighborhood, but people beg as soon as you exit your car. United We Can was very smelly and dirty. And there was a huge line of people who collect bottles from the streets. Apparently, the place was designed for homeless people. I think it's great for them. But I would suggest going to a nearby store or another bottle depot.

I've been using the service at this location since May 2020 and found it great as a way to take…read morecare of pop and beer cans, and now gabled cartons. The staff has changed over time but I have always found them warm, polite and helpful. This is a very busy location so the time from drop off to when the cans are processed can take up to 10 business days. I always take a snapshot of my label to help me keep track of drop offs. There have been a couple of times when a bag has gone missing or seems short - what has likely happened is a bag split at the processing location - however an email to customer service with the bag number typically remedies to at. By the way, customer service contact has always great - even if I was mistaken and in error.

I have been using this depot for just over a year now. We collect our bottles for a few months and…read moretake them in, using the Express drop off. Up until our last drop off, we were fairly satisfied with the service. Typically, we return about 130 to 140 bottles on each trip. I do count the bottles, just to see how their numbers compare to mine. They usually are within 1 or 2 bottles of each other. However, this last time I counted 140 bottles dropped off - they credited me with only 102, a differences of 38 bottles. When I emailed a complaint about the discrepancy, I was brushed off with a trite response that they were confident their number was correct. No willingness to even entertain the idea they made a mistake. A word of warning - be prepared for the possibility of being ripped off. This is NOT AN HONEST BUSINESS they are running. Will be taking my business elsewhere going forward.

The easiest place to return scrap metal. Clean. Fast. Friendly.read more

From the owner: Founded in 1909, Davis Trading was one of the first recyclers of scrap metal in North America.read more

Until about 2 years ago, our company used to always fill one( or more ) of our pickups and send a…read morelabourer to the dump with our construction waste. That was until we found Chris, Zack and the rest of the Sea to Sky crew. Not only did they get my crew off of garbage duty and back to their respective tasks, but Sea to Sky was able to accomplish our waste removal needs in a much more orderly and timely manner then we would have ever been able to achieve on our own. We currently have them booked to come my our site every other week and don't see why we'd EVER go back to doing our own waste management.

Getting rid of stuff can be stressful - once you finally decide what has to go, then you worry…read moreabout where it's going to end up... That's where Cinci and Chris from Sea to Sky Removal come in! They break everything down into recyclable parts as much as possible and dispose of it responsibly. They are fast, efficient and tidy making the whole removal process much easier than I expected.

A Professional and friendly team of 2 arrived on time and did an excellent job. Very transparent…read morewith pricing and letting me know when we've hit certain weight thresholds to avoid any surprises in pricing. They even helped sweep up the garage area they were clearing up which was a pleasant surprise. Highly recommended!

Friday was the first time I used this company. I was very pleased with their service. I felt they…read morehad very good customer relation skills and very pleasant to deal with. I left them to take car of clearing out an abandoned apartment plus some extra appliances I added and they had the job done quickly and reasonably. I will use them again Jim