Great folks, easy to understand layout for recycling, and they will recycle your broken metal object and other items, so they don’t hit the landfill. Highly recommend!!
Great people, great service, no complaints. Great location. Every time I have been there they have been very helpful and happy to show me what goes where. Also this place is very clean I have been to other recycling centers and sometimes leave with a nail in my tire. All around great place to go.
I asked a lot of questions the first time I dropped off so that I didn't contribute to this awesome place ever needing to "scale back" what it offers b/c of careless and ingorant (read: not knowing) ppl. Thanks for the many answers to my many questions! Visit after visit, this place maintains integrity and friendliness! I love going here.
I know they're aren't rocket scientist, but someone should teach them how to answer a phone, or take the phone number down as well as your email since you really don't use it to respond.
Very convenient and great as a free recycling option. Fair prices for other waste - I bring my trash weekly and it is always a pleasant experience. Staff are nothing but great. Nice people and easy to work with. Thank you for providing this very convenient option!
Trevor is a pleasure as always. I enjoy how he helps me think about materials and how they are processed. I am a more competent recyclist because of him.
Makes up prices on the spot. Had to pay $65 for one yard of non-compactible trash. He advertises $30 per yard.
Five years later - Things change. Fair price these days; changing from one star to five stars.
Used to be reasonable,20-25 per truck load. Today they charged me 45 for a truck with a 5'7 bed.It was Saturday so I was limited and had to pay the 45.
Wonderful center!! I highly recommend and it’s great for the community! The staff there are very courteous, very professional, knowledgeable and it’s great for the environment and close to home!
People who work there are really nice .The ownere or his son is a real people person .one time I took trash and dropped off some metal in bein and was driving off and he actually accused me of stealing from the metal area so I stopped and ask him what he needed he wanted to look in the back of my truck to see what I took and there was nothing in my truck .no apologies nothing at all.went there yesterday recycled books and cardboard and paid for 2 bags of trash.i was talking to his people that work there witch are see to very nice and helpful. And I heard someone yelling at me as I was at compactor it's time to stop talking and move along people .I
I couldn't believe he was talking to us like that .wow still in disbelief on how treated pubic and employees
Wonderful center!! Came in to dump some things after moving to a new home and I was able to procure and even trade some things for free with another customer while receiving kind flexibility with the amount of things I needed to dump since it took me multiple trips!! Thoroughly recommend and it’s a great asset to the community! One man’s trash really is another’s treasure!
Trevor at Reclaimed By Design is awesome! Not only is he great to work for as we take care of the lawn in summer and plowing in winter but the services he offers such as recycling and very reasonably priced junk disposal are great as well. No more having to make the trek out to Williamston or Lansing, I’d recommend Reclaimed to anyone :)
Wonderful Experience. I have been using them for my spring clean up for years. My most recent experience is compelling me to leave this review.
I was preparing a spring cleaning trip when my elderly neighbor asked me to help him with several bags of trash as I was leaving. This ended up putting way behind on my schedule and after my 25 minute drive, I ended up getting there at closing time. They let me still come in and even helped me unload. They went way above and beyond.
Im just happy we have a place to recycle in the township,and that they update the cardboard bin capacity - I was bummed one time to find them closed between Xmas and new years but they did post their hours up front and on website. I had them pick up a mattress and it was a seamless process. Would love if we could also start recycling cartons too.
Makes up business hours as they go. They closed nearly all of New Years week even though their website claims they’re open. Imagine having a full car, truck or van and waiting a full half hour after they were supposed to be open and finding a scribbled sign with the altered hours. There were a lot of angry people. The guy that runs this place won’t even operate normal hours, THEY DON’T OPEN UNTIL 2 P.M. ON MONDAYS AND FRIDAYS!!! So you work all weekend and arrive Monday morning to discover they’re not open until mid-afternoon. This guy likes to sleep in. Make sure you complain to Meridian TWP about this.
We had to dispose of shingles from our roof. The price was fair and mike even stayed a little past closing time so we could finish unloading our trailer. Mike took the time out of his busy schedule to help us finish emptying the trailer which was a HUGE help. We were so grateful to find such a great place with friendly/helpful staff. Thank you!!!
💯 Reclaimed By Design is by far the best recycling, yard waste, and solid waste handling facility in the Tri-County area, the Lansing Capitol region, and maybe even the entire state! They have rock-bottom prices and provide an overall exceptional experience each and every time I go there!! I’d give them 100 STARS if I could!!! 💯
Having this place handy keeps alot of my cast off stuff out of the landfill! Super nice manager and a newly graded drive. I appreciate very much that the center has been open the last many weeks.
Recycling made simple!! I am new to recycling and have always used the excuse its too much work to have to sort stuff that in my oppinion was just trash. Recently I was challenged to start recycling stuff used in my home. So Today I took all my collection of recyclable items to Reclaimed By Design and I was there less that five minutes and was able to get rid of everything I had collected the past month in one easy stop!!. Challenge Excepted!!
I have been using the transfer station since I moved to the area in 1994 . Yes the access is in poor condition sometimes, drive slowly, it only takes a couple of minutes longer. When RBD took over the operation from Meridian Township the service improved and expanded greatly. You can recycle more here than any other site I am aware of. The staff has always been very friendly and helpful. The trash/yard waste costs are much less when you factor in time and cost of driving to another site.
This is really convenient. There's plenty of space to move around when it's busy. They were able to fix the drive way so that's nice now! The staff is awesome as well.
This place is great. My family uses them for recycling services. I usually pay to drop unwanted scrap materials here. Fair prices. I think there was a change in ownership a few years back, seems like it was for the better!
Friendly service too.
They recycle plastics 1-5, paper, cardboard, cans, brown and clear glass (not blue or green) and Styrofoam. You can also leave yard waste and throw away trash for a fee. It is always staffed and well cared for, and I appreciate that there is somewhere nearby for me to recycle. Every time I have talked with the staff they have been friendly and accommodating. It is off of a dirt road, so your car may get a bit dirty! But all around a good experience.
I do not recommend this service. They are a for profit place and gouge on green "waste" compostables. I saw the service online and it was not clear what they charged. Seems money items like deposit bottles are "free" but green stuff is a crazy $15/yard^3 with no discretion on weight. This was NOT made clear on the Meridian township posting they had. I did not realize the method and carried one loosely stacked plywood sheet trailer of bush clippings (maybe 30-50 lbs max) and got billed $30. Crazy for something that rots right away. I complained. The owner was polite enough. But he is trucking the stuff to a company and then paying them for grinding/composting. It is NOT green to truck, load, unload, load, truck again, .... Crazy. This place will happily take money making donations and bill to the max on stuff like this. I recommend taking things of value to MSU recycle center. They will put the money made to better use and probably have a more rational and efficient setup. They deserve the support. This place does not.
Footnote: I wrote the honest review above. The owner Trevor Hoover emailed me a few hours later to complain and insulted me and then bragged about his positive reviews. I found that odd since there were no other reviews at the time I wrote mine. Seems in few hours after my review the positive ones appeared including one *explicitly* by Trevor Hoover layered on later. Hmm. I regret giving this business my credit card for the charge. Now he presumably has my address and personal info linked to that bill. This coupled with the obvious lack of ethics is troubling. Patronize this place at your own risk!!
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