Modesto Junk Co Recycling Center

Modesto Junk Co. was honored to be a partner with Stanislaus County Office of Education in bringing a virtual field trip into local classrooms for the current school year

‘Real Estate Jerky’, which can be heard on local KFIV AM radio (or via podcast), focused their show on how recycling was affected locally due to COVID-19 this past weekend, and Modesto Junk Co was included as a guest. You can hear the show any time for your own listening leisure -

Melissa Prewett is a ScrapStar at Modesto Junk Co!

Manuel King is a ScrapStar at Modesto Junk Co!

Our New Year's Weekend schedule: OPEN 8am - 1pm Thurs, Dec 31st CLOSED Fri, Jan 1st OPEN 9am - 3pm, Sat, Jan 2nd CLOSED Sun, Jan 3rd... OPEN 8am - 4:30pm, Mon, Jan 4th We're celebrating 101 years of recycling locally in 2021!

Our holiday schedule: OPEN 8am - 1pm Thurs, Dec 24th CLOSED Fri, Dec 25th OPEN 9am - 3pm Sat, Dec 26th... Did you know? You can recycle broken holiday lights with us! Warm holiday wishes to you and your family from all of us at Modesto Junk Company

Due to COVID-19, Modesto Junk Company has recently decertified from the State of California’s CRV (California Refund Value) beverage container collection program. This means we are no longer able to pay back the deposit which consumers pay to the State of California on Aluminum Cans, and Glass and Plastic bottles. We can purchase your aluminum cans as scrap (Scrap Aluminum Cans). We can also accept household glass and plastic bottles to be recycled for free (Scrap Glass Bottl...es and Scrap Plastic Bottles). We apologize for any inconvenience. We continue to remain open for the reycling of scrap items, including metals (copper, stainless, iron/steel, appliances/tin, radiators, motors), cardboard, e-waste (monitors, TVs, computers, laptops), and lead-acid (auto-type) batteries. Our hours remain Mon - Fri 8am - 4:30pm; and Sat 9am - 3pm.

We are so saddened to learn of the recent passing of a long-time customer and friend, Roy Dyson, age 95. From the obituary in The Modesto Bee: 'After retiring, he spent time with his family, he loved a good dinner, "Stuff" being his favorite, attending car shows in his Model-A, and recycling metals and taking scraps to Modesto Junk.'

David Slivou is a ScrapStar at Modesto Junk Company!

Marking 100 years of being in business in 2020, Modesto Junk Company is featured this month's newsletter of the local McHenry Museum & Historical Society. The story is featured on page two of the current newsletter: https://www.modestojunk.com//09/September-2020-Newsletter.

Modesto Junk Co to receive business recycling award from City of Modesto for 2019 efforts at City event on October 1st

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. - origin unknown It may not look pretty to all, but we are currently recycling almost all grades of scrap plastics at this time.... Our California Recund Value (CRV) beverage container collection operation remains temporarily closed due to COVID-19 complications, but we are actively receiving household scrap plastics from the public as drop-off items for recycling.

No, it’s not a dusting of snow. It’s ash from another California fire

This Labor Day Weekend, we are OPEN Fri 8am - 4:30pm; OPEN Sat 9am - 3pm; and CLOSED Sun & Mon. We reopen regular weekday hours on Tues.

In 2008, Tom Berryhill co-lead the passage of the California metal theft law in the state legislature. His office consulted with Modesto Junk Company to determine the language and methods to be used in the bill for combating metal theft statewide. We are deeply saddened to learn of his passing.

Good evening friends, We had a brief, but visually large, fire late this afternoon. Nobody was injured. Our team followed procedures and our local Modesto Fire Department quickly extinguished the flames. We thank all of our community partners and supporters for the genuine concern and outreach.

An interesting Modesto historical recycling find we came across this week! We are sharing to help us all stay connected - even if virtually for many - during this physically social distant time. #Modesto150 #ModestoJunk100 #2020VisionReimagined https://www.modesto150.com/invention-of-curbside-recycling/

Jose Gallegos is a ScrapStar at Modesto Junk Company!