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The Recycler
Website logo (top) and front page of the October 23-29, 2008 Recycler West
Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Midi
Owner	Tribune Company
Publisher	E Z Buy & E Z Sell Recycler Corporation of Southern California through Target Media Partners
Editor	Tina Antikadjian
Managing Ed.	Patricia Ford
Founded	July 1973
Headquarters	4954 Van Nuys Blvd. Sherman Oaks, California 91403 United States
Website: recycler.com

The Recycler is a Los Angeles based, classifieds only newspaper, started by Gunter and Nancy Schaldach in 1973.

The Recycler was based in Silverlake, a district of Los Angeles and was subsequently sold to the Times Mirror Co. in 1998.

Gunter was killed in a car accident on Pacific Coast Highway in 1988. It has nothing but ads placed by people who wish to sell or buy something. Everything from cars to books is advertised in "The Recycler."

For an interesting note, some famous bands of the 1980's were formed by people that answered ads in "The Recycler." Mick Mars joined Mötley Crüe after placing an ad answered by drummer Tommy Lee. James Hetfield answered an ad placed by Lars Ulrich, and that gave birth to Metallica.

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