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Gardena Recycling Center

1538 W 134th St, Gardena, CA 90249

(310) 516-8195Get DirectionsWebsite

About Gardena Recycling Center

The scrap metal recycling business Gardena Recycling Center works out of Gardena, California within Los Angeles County. The site takes inbound scrap from individual sellers and small contractors, and acts as one of the paid drop-off options for salvage volume in the surrounding county. Accepted-material categories are not on file in our directory for this yard, and the listing field remains open at present. Day-to-day hours are recorded. A phone line, a website, and an email contact appear in the listing, which together capture what the yard has filed with the directory about its inbound contact and posted schedule, and give sellers a working baseline for planning a visit before any drive over to the gate. Sorting at the gate moves faster when materials are pre-separated at home — ferrous in one bin, copper in another, aluminum kept clean. The yard can post the load through faster, and sellers tend to land a cleaner intake price on each category. Pre-sorted loads also avoid the wait that comes when staff have to break a mixed bin apart on site before grading and weighing the material.

Scrap Price Estimates (US Average)

Daily US average estimates updated Nov 10, 2026, not Gardena Recycling Center's own prices; call the yard for its pay rates. How we estimate prices.

MetalEst. PriceUnit
Bare Bright Copper$5.54/lb
#1 Copper$5.31/lb
#2 Copper$4.73/lb
Insulated Copper Wire$2.60/lb
Copper Pipe (Clean)$5.14/lb
Aluminum (Mixed)$0.70/lb
Aluminum Cans$0.95/lb
Aluminum Extrusion$0.99/lb
Steel (Heavy Melt)$285.00/ton
Light Iron / Sheet$215.00/ton
Cast Iron$0.18/lb
Stainless Steel (304)$0.62/lb
Listing source: name, address, phone and hours carried over from this site's earlier directory (imported May 9, 2026). Something wrong or out of date? Report a mistake. How we check listings.

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