What clients say about Evolution Recycling in Monterey Park (CA)
I agree with all the other reviewers that mention that this location is clean, well run and the attendants are friendly, helpful and very professional. Highly recommend.
Fast, friendly, and clean location. They have water, soap, and paper towels which is very convenient after touching dirty cans. They’re closed for an hour and half from 12pm- 1:30pm for lunch
The staff will be gentle with everyone is very good My same bottle in others will give a few dollars but here will be much more they will not deduct our money other places will deduct a lot so you can sell your bottles here with confidence
Having a local recycling center is great for the community and environment. This place has a pretty convenient setup. There is good parking. All that is needed is to get the appropriate container for your material and wait in line. They pay by the weight. It can be difficult when many people are there at the same time. That is when we need to exercise patience. The prices are fair and the owner is always helpful and friendly.
They now have shade covers while you wait in line.
going for years great for the people who recycle often friendly and safe. COVID precautions are implemented.. I wouldn't go anywhere else since I live down the da street lol
I go there all the time it's close too y home and yes they are very helpful and respect to the customers so if your looking for a place close to you for recycling this is the place to go I RECOMEND THAT YOU GO THERE THANK YOU Evolution Recycling much respect.s Richard P Nakahiro
Fair, friendly, and organized. Simply pull in to there back lot, park in designated spaces, grab their plastic bins, fill bins by plastic, glass, aluminum types and head to their entrance to wait patiently for your redemption. They have hand sanitizer and towels to utilize. Simply in and out with cash!
Do not go here. They are not honest and will take your money. I went there yesterday. My 6 year old daughter has been saving up recycling money for an iPad. On our 1st visit we brought in 7 stuffed trash bags of crushed water bottles and 3 full bags of orange juice bottles and she received $39 WITH A RECEIPT. This time we were sure we would get more. 10 trash bags of crushed water bottles...bags were stuffed! Some had holes in the bags because they were so stuffed plus another full bag of quart size Simply orange juice bottles. She only received $27! That is $3.00 a bag. When I asked for receipt the man said they don't give receipts. She was so disappointed after all her hard work. Same size bags. Same types of bottles. Visits just months apart. I would give no stars if I could.
They Don't Fill To Capacity Easily. It's true what everybody says, they're friendly fast and quick. No doubt this quality may not exist at every recycling. I will however say that yes they are short-changing you. I weighed my 2 plastic bottle bags at about 10 and 1/2 pounds each. My receipt showed that I only brought in 17 lbs. Convenience and friendliness does not mean that you can steal from me.
If you want to get out of a recycling place fast and you don't care if you don't receive the full amount of money back, then this is the place for you. I went today and am not happy with my experience. Although someone helped me sort my recycling, I received more than $5 less than what I should have received if I had gone to my normal location. The prices listed were great, but the weighing was off. For example, my glass was weighed at 22lbs but he only gave me 14.5lbs worth of money. He stated that the trash can i used (small, short trash can with a hole cut out at the bottom) was 7lbs. Not only do I question the validity of his statement but his math was wrong. And this was only for glass. I can only imagine how much he took off for all my plastic and aluminum. Not happy.
Fast service and friendly people who work there, especially the owner. The hispanic owner is very nice and talks a lot, probably to distract his customers. The only thing that made me rate it as two stars instead of 5 stars is their dishonestly. I brought 2x 40 gallon bags of cans and 4x 40 gallon bags of bottles, pre-weighted at home with my commercial weighing machine. How much I got? Was $26-28 instead of the $34 that was calculated at home, taking into consideration price per pound for each different material. I was shocked that I loss approximately $8 in one visit. Stay away from small family owned recycling center. I noticed the short-changed practice at every family owned store. Try to spend extra time at a franchise location where its workers do not care about profiting rather care about the hourly wage they get. The fraud they commit is what allows them to pay rent for such a large rented facility. TIP--- Try to pre-weigh your recycles before coming here or at least count how many recycle bottles or cans you have and see if there is a large disparity between the weighted price and the price per bottle or cans (like 0.05 per plastic bottle). Should not be off by 10%!!! I'm calling Cal Recycling tomorrow or a state agency that does investigation on weighting.
Great service. If it's closed after the posted times it's because the employee took a late lunch. He's always busy. And he doesn't mind working Into his lunch hour. So he will take a later lunch.
Saw lots of good reviews about this place, so I decided to try it out. I saw that they closed from 12 -1, so I headed down at 2pm. The place was still closed and had a line forming. No signs or nothing about being closed. I waited til 2:25 and it nevwr opened up. I tried calling the business and no answer. Not coming back here again.
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