Power Recycling is the place to go! Not only are their prices fair and the process quick, but the staff really makes the experience enjoyable. The girls up front are absolutely amazing — super friendly, always cheerful, and hilarious! You’ll leave with a smile on your face (and a little extra cash in your pocket). Who knew dropping off scrap could be this fun? Thanks for keeping things light, lively, and efficient every time!
Other than the disorganization and chaotic nature of how it’s run, the pricing was terrible. Gave me type #2 pricing for type #1 copper wire, and type #3 for type #2 copper wire. I scrap a lot so I know the difference. Just make the drive and go to Didion Orf in St. Charles, you’ll thank me.
MY FIRST TIME AT THE POWER RECYCLING FACILITY. MY FIRST ENCOUNTER YOU GO UP 3 STEEP STEPS AND THE YOUNG LADY BEHIND A BLACKOUT WINDOW WAS HELPFUL WITH DIRECTIONS ON WHAT TO DO. IT WASNT WORTH THE WAIT IN TIME NOR CASH OUT…
They are rude and yell at you. I been going there for years and they treat you like crap and then want you to run and get them food or drinks. And when it rains /snows mid up to your butt. They won’t put any more rock down bc the owner said it cost to much and he spent enough on rock
This place is a joke!
Y'all gave type2 money for my type 1. Why?
Y'all gave me brass prices for my type 2. Why?
You probably owe me another 100 on that at least. Never going back
When you compare their prices to Grapperhaus, you won't want to come back to Power. Here's some price comparisons on 6/3/24. Prices from power are on my receipt and Grapperhaus has them on their site.
#2 copper: Grap: $3.53 Power: $3.20
Ac coils: Grap: $1.78 Power: $1.25
Compressors: Grap: $.30 Power: $.25
Power recycling is consistently 10%-40% less depending on what you scrap. If you have any decent amount to scrap, it's worth the gas money to go to Grapperhaus.
Decent prices for your scrap and make it a fairly easy to drop items off. Roberto and Andy aren't like some places who try and rip you off on your weight, and will explain any questions that you have without being rude.
I had all stainless steel except a little bit and they just paid me scrap metal because they saw a piece of steel that I would’ve took off if they would’ve told me they will rip you off
Considering it's the only recycling place close to the public it's not bad I guess but do they rip you off is another stories let's talk about the pricing flat line there lower than everyone else,second there scale how is it that Everytime you pull on the scale it dropped 20 # going on it raises 20 when you go back threw that's 40# in my opinion NOTE it's just an opinion I've been threw there at least a 100 + times that would be over 4000# s + that's in the 100s of dollars and then the copper don't get me started in my opinion they do it price
gouging cause the can cause the low income area has nowhere else to. Go and I heard them. Tell one customer don't like it go somewhere else that's my opinion on the matter like I said just an opinion . JASON
They need to get a more precise scale where it breaks down to the half or quarter of a pound they are getting over on people that take copper or brass or any other non-ferrous metal. For example if you take 5 and 9/10 of a pound of copper in you only get paid for 5 lb of copper at today's prices that is $3.50 that you lost out on and with the amount of people that are taking non-ferrous metals in they are making a killing off of us by not breaking it down to the quarter pounds
We were told on the phone that they will pay for valuable metals in electronics. When we got there, we unloaded everything and they told us they would take it for nothing. Once we loaded everything back up, they said they'd weigh it and give us a quote. After dumping everything again we got scrap iron rates. Never again.
Paid way to low for extruded aluminum should have been more than 30 cents a pound. They tried to pay me at cast price of 25 cents a pound and it should be 30 cents a pound. Won't go back.
Cheated me out of money. I had maybe a dozen scrap cat food cans in a large load of aluminum cans and they gave me scrap pricing for the whole thing rather than to tell me the two weren't the same price. When I said something about it, the person acted like they couldn't care less. Will never do business with them again if they care that little about their customers. I recommend not doing business with them.
My car recently broke down and I had no idea what to do with it. A friend recommended I take it to Power Recycling and they scrapped the entire car and I walked away with a couple hundred bucks.
These people are always very polite and efficient. The entrance is sort of one way, but you are always able to get in. The entrance does not look very inviting, so people off the street may not know that they can drop off and recycling nearly anything that is metal at this place.
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