Tenenbaum Recycling Group

Took a friend here so he could cash in some scrap copper. It was the type that was pure copper wire (a mix of some 00 gauge braided and 12-16 gauge solid) but had the insulation burned off and therefore was gray in color (carbon/copper oxides). It felt about like 35 lbs to me and he got $102 for it as of Sep 3 2024. We went about 11 am and unlike the previous times I've been there there was only one person in the drive-through and it only took him maybe 10 mins to cash in his ticket. So the whole process took maybe 20 mins tops. Often however there IS a line especially at the ticket cashing window and you can easily spend an hour or more here. The employees are kinda hit and miss. Most of the time they're nice respectful and cordial but on occasion they're rude disrespectful and impatient. Those are the reasons for 4⭐ instead of 5. Like another reviewer said I think some of them assume people coming here are thieves or just trying to get booze/drug money. And let's be real many if not most are. But you should still treat each person with a certain level of decency and respect regardless of what you think their "lifestyle" is. We don't necessarily know what led each person into a particular way of life and really if you believe in a purely deterministic universe free will doesn't exist anyway ;) Hell even if you believe in an omnipotent creator you still must concede that some cases of poor lifestyle choices are not the fault of the chooser. Bet you never expected to get this deep into philosophy on Google Reviews did you? P. S. It did smell like ozone in the recycling area even with large openings to the outside air. Definitely more than in the outside ambient air. It's probably from the large electric motors in there and can't be great for the employees over long periods of time. Might be time to change those brushes (but these are probably 3-phase motors without brushes) or use better ventilation. Just trying to help...

I've been going here my whole life and would've given 5 stars until today. I will never come back again after the way I was treated today. The new crew are lazy kids that dont want to do what they get paid for.

Joe in the scale house is a pleasant person to work with I'm an outkast driver and we help fluff out of there and he's always very helpful and courteous and nice to work with