Electronic waste should not be discarded like regular trash. Chemicals such as cadmium and lead are terrible for the natural environment, and landfills are full of plastic and metal that could be recycled. What’s more, so many people who are otherwise environmentally conscious simply discard their old devices, even if they’re still perfectly functional. We at California Recycles think we can do better for the environment, so we offer free computer recycling and laptop recycling to people who bring their e-waste to our recycling center.

There’s no need! We know that people are concerned about their personal information leaking into the world, so we treat hard disks, SSDs, and other storage media with great care. With us, computer recycling is safe.

California Recycles always tries to reuse and refurbish viable equipment, but that doesn’t mean we just take your old hard drive and stick it in a new computer. Everything that can store data is wiped based on strict guidelines, and we verify that no old data remains before we reuse storage media. DVDs and other media that cannot be reused are physically shredded and discarded.