Had a few things to recycle and Dad likes this place. My first time here or any recycle place…read more One way in and one way out, enter on Petroleum Ave. Seems like plenty of parking. Everyone is hustling and bustling. Grab a few bins to separate your recycles, bring it over to the friendly employees, they get weighed, you get paid. Quick, efficient, you're helping the environment, it's all good.

After they closed the recycling center in Gardena near Home Depot, I'm glad I found Venture. When…read moreyou shop at Costco and Sam's Club, it's amazing how fast the piles of plastic bottles and aluminum cans piles up. There's only so much microplastic our bodies can store so what to do with the macro portion left over? Sure, I could just dump it in my blue recycling cans, save time, effort, and have people digging through my recycling, dumping the rest of the contents on the street or let the city cash in my hard earned CRV. Nah. The city already takes more than their fair share of my income. The workers at Venture are always friendly and helpful. There is adequate parking and never a shortage of bins to roll over to the scales. The lot is set up so traffic goes one way, making entering and exiting efficient. It is rather grungy but it's a recycling center. I've never seen one that could pass a white glove inspection. Just wear a pair of rubber/vinyl gloves so you don't get gunk on your hands and you'll be fine. There are closer recycling centers closer to home but the guys at Venture make an inconvenient chore into a more pleasant experience.

Efficient. They do a great job getting you in and out fast…read more Friendly, service oriented people there.

Mulch: drive all the way down until you see the sign that says mulch. What that other mysterious…read morepile you drive by first is, who knows! Free mulch! It's pretty great. Bring a shovel and something to put it in

This place is rigged, i weighted 40lbs of aluminum cans at home and to my surprise they only paid…read moreme for 15lbs. I didn't realize until came back home and looked a t the receipt and cash the guy hand me. Im so reporting this place.

Found this place on Yelp when Action Metal Sales across PCH decided to not open at all or close…read moreearly on Halloween Saturday. Wastech is open until 3:00 on Saturdays. The place is relatively clean and seemed pretty organized. They had plenty of baskets for aluminum and rolling trash cans for glass. There was no wait in front of me. They took me immediately. I was in an out in five minutes. They paid $1.83 per pound for my aluminum cans, which I believe is above the state minimum of $1.57 per pound. I got $.105 (10 cents) per pound for my CRV glass- mostly beer bottles. Please note: there is no CRV on wine bottles and other food jars, etc. Those are considered "scrap," and I didn't get any money for them. Just put those in your blue curbside container. You may want to familiarize yourself with the Cal Recycle web page before you stockpile too much recycling at home: http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/bevcontainer/programinfo/FAQ.htm

Location is very close to the school I am subbing at and to close to home. Usually it is not too…read morecrazy busy and they can weigh all your sorted out stuff right away. They are very nice and helpful there. I haven't been too many recycling centers before except the ones next to Albertson's, but I like them because they will help you recycle everything and not leave anything behind unlike Plane Recycle next to Albetson's whose machines are temperamental and will only take perfect bottles and spit out crushed ones (plus I don't think they give you as much as they are worth). G & P has a washing hands container so that is helpful, but after going you need to make sure to take a shower.... All the recycle bins have stuff all sticky in and on it and when they stack them in the end, all that stuff flies in the air and gets on you.

A typical recycling place that has a shipping container and guys that will weigh your items and…read morehelp you get paid. The guys are friendly and quick, and will help you figure out how to sort your recyclables. Just be sure to bring gloves because everything is filthy. Not knocking them, it's just the nature of the business. There's a separate booth that has a slot where they slip you a form to sign and return. Then the money comes out of the slot with your itemized receipt. You can't see inside the booth. It reminds me of pachinko parlors in Japan. In order to not be considered a gambling hall, pachinko parlors usually have a separate booth out back where you can redeem your ticket for cash instead of the cheap prizes inside. At least that's how it was in the 80s. Some other customer noticed that I brought less than a pound of aluminum cans. He just had to tell me I was better off throwing that amount away. Well, shitbird, if you must know, I casually recycle whatever I use and donate the proceeds to my favorite charity. I'm sure those sick kids wouldn't appreciate me throwing away the money. Keep your mouth shut the next time you feel like opining on something that is none of your business. You sound like an idiot.

Unbeatable selection,, great service and decent pricing* I…read moregot some amazing deals from this place * decent pricing on most days but not every day

Man all I have to say is Bruce and the guys are really the best. I work with Sammy @ SOS and he…read morereferred me to Bruce for a little side project and I couldn't be happier. Showed up and they had all the material sorted so we didn't spend too long sorting what I needed. Prices were extremely fair and they're a pleasure to work with. Got the gate built and installed and the finish product really reflected the quality of metal I purchased.

At its core, a very simple and reliable recycling service!…read more Aim to organize your glass bottles, aluminum cans, and plastic bottles/gallons prior to coming over so you're in and out. This place has its own sanitation station, but I highly recommend bringing your own gloves and hand sanitizer. Aluminum and plastic bottles go into the orange net baskets (but should be separated). Large plastic gallons should be placed on top of small/standard water bottles. Glass bottles go into the grey plastic bins. If you come right before they open at 9AM, you'll likely run into 1-2 parties trying to be in and out of there as well. I always run into families here, but the community as a whole is pretty good about not hogging containers/baskets.

No more. I tried to…read moreleave this review via my phone and yelp glitched out and the review didn't post, but instead of taking it as a sign to not bother, fired up my laptop to tell you to beware this place. When the former punk rock listening guy (who has the dog) was there, I had no problems. I would usually get at least $8- $12+ for my bi-monthly collection of aluminum cans, glass, and plastic water bottles. The last time I went to this location, the punk rock guy was gone and there were three new guys there and I only got less than $5. I went back today at 3pm hoping that maybe the dog owning guy was back but I think he's gone. The three guys were there. There were several orange-fence bins full of drinking water bottles in front of the pay-out stand as if they had been abandoned by other angry customers. The employees were arguing with the person in front of me because the customer wasn't able to see the screen for the scale and so there was no way for the customer to verify the weight. They watched me take two full over-sized garbage bags out of my trunk and pour each of them into a fence-bin. Then as soon as they finished with the customer in front of me, said they needed to close for about an hour and were done paying out "for now". It was already 3pm and the place closes at 4 anyways. I said I was leaving and they responded rudely "okay bye" but yelled at me when I took the two bins of *my* recycling back towards my car, so I could just dump everything into my trunk to re-sort at home later for another place (as they had watched me empty and discard my original trash bags, I think they were expecting me to just leave the CRV recycling in their bins). As I was dumping the bins directly into my trunk, they told another customer [I'm] "always crazy like that." Wow. This is only the second time I've interacted with them, and though I suspect I was not paid fairly the first time, I never said anything to them about that. Way to disrespect me in front of my community members. I would rather just give my "CRV money" to the city of Torrance by putting my cans and bottles directly in the curb-pick up bin then deal with the current people who work there.