Replanet Recycling

If I could give this place zero stars I would! Trying to help my family get rid of all their recycle and in return I’m dealing with the low life crack heads that are trying to get their 15 $ to go buy some crack.
On top of it the guy that works here is over a hour late to his job… Somebody fire this person and get someone that will do their job correctly and be on time!
Approach with caution on temple city’s finest crack addicts will attack you and try to steal your recycle that you bring!
Also watch out for the missing teeth on the ground.

I’ve been here a couple of times and each time was a bad experience. First time was about a 1.5 years ago. At this time an angry customer started yelling and threatening the one worker here. At one point the angry patron jumped on the scale, eventually forcing the worker to close early. After unloading all my recyclables and waiting for 30 minutes, I decided to just give my recyclables away to a lady and her kid. I considered it my good deed for the day. Fast forward to this past Saturday, due to convenience, I decided to give this place a shot again. I showed up at 12:20, 40 minutes before the one worker takes his 30 minute lunch. There were 2 people in front of me. The first guy took up the whole 40 minutes with his 15 bags that we all had the pleasure of watching him sort out. Around 12:50pm, once this guy was done sorting, then the worker informed us that he was going to be his last customer before lunch. Thanks! That would have done us some good 30 minutes ago. The kid next in line with one bag decided to dump his recyclables in the trash and leave (something I find to be very common here). I decided to wait it out, since the sign onsite displayed lunch break 1 – 1:30pm. The worker returned around 1:40, 10 minutes late. Not only are the workers I’ve encountered rude here, but the regulars act as if they are the ones who actually work here, very confusing & lots of power trips. This place makes me want to quit recycling all together. If you don’t have all day to waist, I would avoid coming here.
PLEASE sort out your recyclables before you get here! Thanks!

RePlanet is the closest recycling center to me, so I go here by default to reduce the driving distance. It’s usually packed on weekends and there is usually only one worker. Lines can get long and the wait is even worse. The workers aren’t that friendly and always look like they hate life, but I assume I’d be the same if I was in their shoes. In the end, it’s a convenient place to recycle my aluminum cans, glass bottles, and plastic bottles. Could it be better? Yes, but I can’t complain since it’s so close to where I live.

Just went today. Arrived there with only one person ahead of me for the guy to weigh all the recyclables at 12:00pm and finished at 1:00pm. There should be at least 2 people working at this location. The wait was long.
This worker was specific when it came to sorting items. Make sure you sort your plastics water and soda in one bin and juice bottles in another. He’ll also tell you to separate wine bottles vs beer bottles. Wine bottles aren’t worth much anyway. He said it’ll only be 4lbs to a penny.
The only thing that’s really worth bringing to this place if you want to make $ is plastic bottles and aluminum cans. Don’t bother bringing any glass bottles. Just let the garbage man take it.
This place took 1hr with just one guy ahead of me. So I really think they at least 2 workers on duty. I’d recommend going to the recycling center at Pavillions in South Pasadena on Fair Oaks and Lyndon St. I went there first but on this day, the worker said that the scale wasn’t working and he had to wait for another scale to come at 2pm.

I got severely sunburnt just from standing in line here. My back was lobster red. IT SUCKS.
Plus I hate the fact that it’s in a parking lot. Hauling tons of recyclables back and forth while cars annoyingly wait for you to pass by as they back out of a parking spot.
Why is there no roof. Why. I won’t come here again simply because my skin can’t handle it. Even with sunscreen on. The wait was atleast 2 hours. Ughhh. There’s only two machines and sometimes they break down. Plus we came during the lunch break so a longer wait.
The worker there was really nice. Very informative and professional.
The bins are also limited so expect to wait and take turns. They all smell of rubbish too. Supposedly you get more for your buck if you use the sorting bins and weigh everything rather than the machines but that’s just word from the worker.
To obtain your money from the receipt you goto the grocery store across from it.
As for the machines, they often take forever because you can only put stuff in one at a time and many times it spits it back out for some reason so i have to try over and over.
Another thing I didn’t like was that apparently some of the wine bottles we had were unable to be recycled because they don’t recycle those kinds of glass materials. What place does then?
Considered extending the roof and getting more bins.

If your sign says you are open from 9 – 4:30 and you don’t open until 10, you are not operating properly.
Somehow, I feel that recycling cans and bottles started out as a noble, good-​intentioned project has now become a business hardly worth being involved in.
I got here at 8:30, stood in line behind a guy that had about 10 xlarge trash bags full of bottles and cans. Was told at 9:05 by the recycling guy that he wouldn’t start collecting for at least 45 minutes– he had to wait for the truck to collect all the previous night’s stuff.
I’ve been at this particular location numerous times. The lines always full of folks with more than a couple bags of cans/​bottles which would likely just be from their household. Obviously these people have turned this into a career. They ought to limit how much you can bring in. It inconveniences everyone else who just wants to get rid of their recyclables without damaging the planet. In many cases, I have simply just left my recyclables to others in line and took off.
I’m at the point now of just throwing it all in the trash for the guy who picks it up from my house. Not worth making an extra trip to get rid of. Not really worth the money to make the trip.

Let me start by saying that I have no Unilocal and I’m reviewing this so no one has to go through the same thing I did. I’ll try to limit my choice of words because it’s better for younger viewers. Let’s get started, shall we.
I’ve came here to recycle many bags of bottles and cans before. However, that was maybe a few years ago and I’ve just stopped recycling and left finished bottles and cans at home. Today, I figured why not just gather everything and get myself out the house for some sun. Keep in mind, it fudging feels like 100 degrees. Bottles have been piling up anyway so lahlahlah, off I went. This was my second time and it was a fudging nightmare.
This place deserves –12 345 stars. In other words, the stars are fudging non-​existent. As I’m typing this review up, I’m thinking dang Unilocal is amazing. Thank you Unilocal for allowing us to write reviews, this will save so many people from this poopy customer service that they provide. On the other hand, the Ralph’s in this location is incredible.
Back to this ridonkolous place. I arrived around, I believe 11 A.M. I had already kept in mind that I’ll be waiting for at least an hour and no more over an hour. Okay, I get there right? I place my bags down. I place my fudging bags down. Then, it’s all good until…“WHO’S BAGS ARE THESE?” I reply, «Oh, these are my bags.» Then this dude says, «You don’t leave the bags here. The line for the machines are to the left.» I said, «Oh thank you.» Then I fudging wait patiently and wow it was actually a short wait. I get ready and bring my bags over to the machine. I start putting the bottles and cans into the slot, but the one problem was that the crushed cans or bottles weren’t going through so I was like wait you can also weigh these. I proceeded to tell the dude working there and he said, «YEAH, YOU’RE GONNA HAVE TO WAIT IN LINE, AND YOU’RE LAST.» Well, no frick, I’m last. I was surprised at his attitude.
Again, there was only ONE dude working. Keep in mind, I said dude, and not man. A real man doesn’t have a poopy attitude. A real man with a great attitude is patient and kind.
Why couldn’t I have just weighed in the bottles and cans? I only had literally three small bags.
So, I fudging walk to the back of the line and right when I do, I see the people in front of me and I totally got pissed off, but having common courtesy is important and I know those people have waited patiently as well. So right when the person in front of me was finished weighing her bottles, the dude tells me that he’s going to lunch and he’ll return at 1:45 P.M. It was 1:00 P.M. Yes, I get that you’ve worked hard and you’re hungry, but you’re really going to have people wait? Especially a couple of elderly who can’t just stay in the hot sun for what feels like FOREVER?!? Damn, your parents must have taught you well to be a gentleman. I don’t think you were even married, you had no ring on, but then again I can’t accuse you of not being married, because I might be wrong.
Okay, now that I’ve passed time at Ralph’s, it was almost 1:45 P.M. I still had another 15 minutes before he came back. Kudos to him, he made it back RIGHT on time. Then here comes the horror. He opens the garage looking recycling place, and specifically tells us not to leave bags in front of the area because he was bringing out the bins that weigh cans/​bottles. Well, okay so I moved my bags back to the line, along with the other people.
He then spends his frolicking time in his own world with his orange headpiece in his ear and clears out the bottles and cans from the machines that were previously finished from other people. Took about I’d say 5 minutes, wow not bad considering your attitude is. So, right when he placed the bins out, I threw all my bags of bottles and cans into the bin, and it only filled up two bins. It didn’t even fill them up that much, but we only used two. He then scales it and gives me something to sign. WTF, I’m done!!! That only took less than 3 minutes. 3 fudging minutes, and you couldn’t just help a few customers before you left for lunch. Sorry, but that’s so damn selfish of you. I waited for almost an hour in total, staying in line, then waiting 45 minutes for you to come back from lunch, and in total it took less than 3 minutes to get out of there. Oh and when you said «Thank you, have a nice day.»…you redeemed yourself by a little bit. SEE, customer service actually counts. People will remember what your actions and what you say to them. I appreciated you saying that, and I said, «You too.»…it’s not hard to provide good customer service, and it’s not fudging hard to JUDGE other people either.

I’ve used this recycle center twice. They have two machines for counting bottles, but the machines are usually either occupied with a long line or broken. So, both times when I was there to recycle, I ended up using the weighting method. My complaint is on the weighting method, they manipulate bottle weight/​counts and take huge advantage of customers. For example, the last time I was there, I had 12 large trash bags of bottles (including water bottles, soda cans, and wine bottles). The bottles filled the large trunk of my SUV (had to force my trunk door to close) along with three more large bags on my backseats. However, the return was less than $ 22. It was unbelievable! But, by the time they gave me the voucher, it was too late to cancel the transaction because the bottles already went into their recycling tube. It’s not so much the money that upset me, rather I can’t stand watching businesses taking advantage of consumers and ruining our community.
Furthermore, even though our bottle labels show CA Cash return for recycling, this recycle center pays in a shopping voucher that’s only redeemable at the Ralph store in Temple City where this recycle center is located.

Need to educate people about forming lines. Waited an hour and when my turn came, this guy just cut in front of me claiming he got there before me. I watched him arrive from my spot in line. There also should be a limit to the use of machines v. Weighing. Anything more than 2 garbage bags full should have to be weighed. Professional recyclers make it such a waste of time for others waiting in line to do simple home recycling. I ended up so infuriated I left my recycling for whoever wanted to do it. Waste of my hard earned money but waiting any longer would waste even more. At least I helped environment. Make a system for the professional recyclers so it is fair to more people who don’t have the time to wait forever.

I’ve been coming to this recycling place for many years. It’s usually a gamble of whether or not there’s a long line, so I try my luck. Sometimes there are loads of people with piles and piles of cans and bottles, but other times it’s completely empty.
I do know what other reviewers are talking about regarding the rude workers. I have encountered some before, but lately I think that the workers have changed and most of them are really friendly and helpful. They seem to really enjoy working there. Perhaps it’s because there are so many regulars here who recycle their cans, that they end up becoming «helpers» to these workers. The last time I was here, a few of the Chinese older people went around advising the people in line what to do and where to go, etc. And since they speak Chinese, they actually help out a lot by directing other recyclers who don’t speak English.
There are usually two lines — one for the machines and the other to weight all the bottles/​cans. The one for the machines is almost always incredibly long. After you finish recycling the cans and getting your money’s worth, you take the receipt into Ralph’s to exchange for money.
Open all week from 9 – 4:30 and I think they are closed from 1 – 1:30 for lunch.

Located in the far end of the Albertson’s parking lot. Theres one guy that works there and hes kinda grumpy. I usually only use the machines. Theres 2 machines where you can put the cans and bottles in. The alternative is to give the man your cans/​bottles and he will weigh it for you. You then get a voucher, which you need to take into Albertsons for cash or use it towards your groceries.

I agree, the guy who works at this location is pretty rude. The one near Duarte and Golden West is much better. A little further away from me, but at least the guy there is friendlier. When I went there, he actually asked me if I had been there before so he could show me what I needed to do.

My work goes through about a dozen plastic bottles a day and I’ve been feeling guilty — time to recycle! Doing good for the environment, right?
My happy-​do-​gooder feeling turned into annoyance once I arrive at the place. Bag in hand and never having recycled before, I approached a worker and asked where to go, which items could be put into machines versus the weighing bins, etc. Hey, I want to recycle the right way! Before I could say anything, he told me «line’s over there» and pointed. I patiently told him that I had a few questions and ask them. He answered, but at the end of every question I had, he could say «line’s over there.» Finally, I snapped and said «I KNOW the line is over there, but LIKE I SAID, I’ve never recycled here before and had a couple questions!» Finally, he said «oh ok.»
A few of the families there had literally 25 bags of assorted recycling and EVERYONE was there — like 10 family members at a time. I wonder if he speaks that way to them, because sometimes the families’ english skills are poorer. With that in mind, I will be switching recycling centers as soon as I find another one in the area.
Located in the Ralph’s parking lot and the hours are 7:30a-4:30p M-​F