Simi Valley Recycling Center

They changed their days and hours Jan 1 but not updated on the listing. 9 to 3 not 9 to 5 and not sure about Mondays.

They were closed today. It is not a holiday… Just a regular Sunday. What a pain to load up and haul my recyclables over there and find out they are taking the day off.

Family members have been dropping off their recycling for many yrs. While I like the convenience of it being close to home, I feel like I have to keep an eye on them. I think they have a very sloppy system. Too many workers are throwing the recycling in random trash cans and things don’t get counted. Case in point: last week, as I was unloading my car, they had me «pull up to the parking». I knew they weren’t paying attention because as I walked up to the window to collect my money, they didn’t include the 80 lbs of glass that I had brought with me: «are you sure you brought glass, dude?» asks the guy who unloaded my car. After about 5 min of searching for my bottles… wow! they found them & finally paid me. Returning home, a family member told me the same thing happened to him. Hmmmm. An OK place, but you really need to keep an eye on these guys because you’ll get shortchanged if you don’t.

Been going here for years. Last time going. Mom got a new car. Took here approx 30 seconds to figure out how unlock rear hatch. Grumpy white guy (heard he was owner) screamed at her to unlock door and move forward because someone was behind her. Apologized to him. He was still pissed off. Must have had a bad day. God bless him hope he will not have a heart attack

Yeah, FUCK this place they pick and choose cans EVEN though it says there is a CA deposit value, BEWARE if you drink Sapporo in cans ! they horde them for themselves !! I separate and rinse off my recyclables, and I DO know they wont pay for Liquor or Wine Bottles (not a problem)
… hmmm someone better INVESTIGATE these individuals! VERY SOON !

I have been coming here going on two years and though I can’t say with certainty this place doesn’t seem to be up and up on their dealings with the customers or at least that is the way they come across.
I’ve been recycling cans, plastic and glass bottles for over a decade and out all of of the places I have dealt with this is by far the worse place. Not only do I not get the same amount I used to and it could be they paid less and I hope it is not because they are taking it from the top. What I do know is the workers make you feel like you are committing a crime and/​or that they are making you a favor my taking your «crap».
I am one of those customers that rinses all their recyclables with water and separates them before bring them in and the last time I was there I was surprised by the fact that they no longer accept (pay) for the white plastic milk/​juices plastic bottles. I know many places do not but what it was more of how they the guy told me. He was like «we only pay for some of them but you would have to sort them our yourself» and mind you the plastic bottles were already in a separate bag with approximately 10 – 15 of those white plastic bottles so why not sort them and then tell me something like «We can accept these but these we won’t pay for», you know… customer service.
I think my last visit will be my last time coming here and are planning on locating a new recycling center to take my recyclables.

Make sure to watch them closely, the last time me and my husband went there the guy kept watching him to see when he wasn’t looking and would dump our cans (the bottom portion of the cans) into his own cans he pulled aside. It wasn’t until I rolled down the window and yelled at him that he realized I was even in the car watching!
Additionally, they ended up telling us they were no longer accepting plastic water bottles??? Apparantly our Fiji, Dasani, and Arrowhead bottles are not being recycled, what kind of recycling place doesn’t recycle plastic drinking bottles anymore?

Large scale recycling center on the outskirts of Simi Valley off Easy Street. You drive up, guys take your recycles out of your car or truck for you and then you park and walk over and get paid cash. Ususually only takes 2-​minutes and you are out of there. Help the environment, do your part recycling, and then get cash. I am happy with this business. Some reviewers complain that they do not get as much money as a machine putting your cans and bottle in one at a time, but how do they expect anyone to make a business if they give you 100% of the proceeds. Look, what you lose in their cut, they more then make up for in convenience, time saving, and ease. Pull up, drop off, get cash; it’s that simple. OK so you only get about 60% of what you’d get if you did it by hand, so what? At least I don’t have to wait in line with a bunch of sketchy tweakers and hopeless idiots at these self serve places by grocery stores.
I would go 5-​stars if they would clean the place up a bit, and perhaps run a blower through the lot a few times once a week or so, as I have picked up a nail here in one of my tires before. So, 4-​stars for now.

Nice staff– very helpful– they empty the cans for you. Always work fast– get in and out. Very nice to my kids!

I would give negative stars if you were allowed.
They will NOT give you money for every pound you bring them. They will short you. Weigh your stuff at home then you will see what I am talking about.
I’ve always thought, «man seems like I should have received more money for what I brought. When the SA place was on easy street I decided to try it out. I got over double the money that I was getting from Simi Recycling. Then I decided to pay attention to the amount they were saying my stuff weighed. Sure enough. They were shorting me, a lot. Check it out for yourself.
Maybe they will see this review and stop shorting everyone.

Worst place in simi! You have to pay attention or they will rip you off, plus they don’t accept juice bottles or other types of alcohol bottles. It’s more worth it to go to the guy behind Jons, he accepts everything and you almost always walk away with a legit amount of money.

The employees at this place will do all the work as long as everything is separated. They will take recyclables out of the trunk and weigh them. You don’t need to get your hands dirty. Some recycling places make you empty your recyclables into trash cans. Also, this recycling center is on Easy Street between Simi Valley and Moorpark. It is just over the line where the street name changes to W Los Angeles Ave.