Sunset Recycling Center CA 90716

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Benjamin

It was my first time recycling and they ripped me off. They said that I had half the weight I actually had for plastic and cans. Didn't realize I got ripped off until I went some place else with about half as much bottles/cans yet ended up with more on the scale. For sure keep an eye on the scale when you go recycle... Edit: I went through some of the other 1 star reviews and it appears I wasn't the only one. I uploaded my receipt from that day. I had 7 or 8 orange baskets of uncrushed soda bottles and another orange baskets that was almost full of cans (including the tall and thick coconut water cans). There's no way that much would've weighed that little.

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Zhu Zheng Feng (风朱正)

The service workers are friendly and quick.

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Joanna Kim

From the moment I was looking for parking and parked, there was a man in a parked vehicle away from the recycling center, glaring at me. So, I was wondering if I had parked in the wrong spot (no, I didn’t). I parked the car, went towards the recycling center, no one was there, so I went towards the inside, heard someone working, and kindly said, “Excuse me. Can you tell me how to do this? It is my first time here.” to the woman who was inside. She spoke in Spanish, only, could not speak English, said that she could not speak English, and gestured to get the plastic bins and to fill it. I thought that I would figure it out on my own. I went to my trunk and started taking out the bags of recyclable plastic bottles, started to count, and fill the plastic bin. As I went to my car to get some more, the man who was sitting on his car, glaring at me, started to walk over, took the bottles, was missing count, and started throwing them in another plastic bin. I found out that he was a worker. He took my plastic bag filled with plastic bottles, and started missing count (he, purposely, missed count and counted wrong so he and that woman inside could pocket that money) and started throwing the plastic bottles in another bin. On his shoulder, he had his phone on speaker, and was talking to some woman. I came back, took the plastic bag back, like, “What are you doing?!” The whole time, his face was rotten angry and mean. Since I was counting how many bottles there actually were and were trying to figure out how much they cost (keeping track in Notes), he got angry and started cursing and saying bad things in Spanish about me to the woman he was on the phone with and the woman who was inside. I got very upset, looked at him straight in the eyes and said not to curse in Spanish at me, to not say bad things in Spanish about me, and he got very angry and hostile. The whole thing was recorded. He was so hostile, I felt threatened. I thought to call the police. I told him that if he keeps being hostile, I will call the police on him. I recorded his face. He took a plastic bottle and covered his face. That is when he started to cool down, started looking nice, and started counting the plastic bottles right. He even confirmed that number with me. Honestly, he was so disorderly, towards the end, I lost count and just hoped that he counted right. After the worker started counting right and needed to give me the right amount, the woman who was inside looked sad (like she lost money). He showed me the receipt, showed me the amount that I was supposed to get back, and he gave me that exact amount. LOOK: All I want is for you to count right and to give me what is due. THAT’S IT. I don’t need more. I just want the right amount. The money was wet, felt dirty, and smelled like homeless people. I feel terrible to the bank for having to deposit this dirty money. Do yourselves a favor and do not come here. Always count, for yourselves, and document the whole thing. This is ridiculous.