Alameda County Electronics Recycling Services

Alameda County anchors the East Bay's economy around the Port of Oakland, alongside UC Berkeley's research base and an advanced-manufacturing corridor through Fremont and Hayward that includes Tesla's Fremont factory. Add Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories in the Tri-Valley and the Hacienda business park in Pleasanton, and the county produces nearly every kind of e-waste we handle: warehouse and logistics IT, lab instrumentation, production-line batteries, and ordinary office turnover.

Each of these cities has its own page with local detail:

• Oakland: port logistics, plus city and county government offices downtown.
• Berkeley: UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory research equipment.
• Alameda: small businesses and new tenants at the former Alameda Point naval air station.
• San Leandro: an old manufacturing corridor near the Oakland airport, now filling with logistics and tech tenants.
• Hayward: manufacturers, Cal State East Bay, and repair and resale shops.
• Castro Valley: shops and professional offices along Castro Valley Boulevard.
• Fremont and Newark: EV and battery manufacturing, warehouses and light industry near the Dumbarton corridor.
• Dublin, Pleasanton and Livermore: Tri-Valley corporate offices, national lab contractors and wineries.

Our routes also cover the communities between them, including Emeryville, Albany, Piedmont, Union City, San Lorenzo, Ashland and Cherryland. If your town isn't listed, ask and we'll confirm.

Anything electronic a business has retired qualifies for pickup: desktops, laptops, servers and networking gear, copiers and printers, phone systems, TVs and monitors, UPS units, audio and video equipment, and battery-embedded devices. The services behind that pickup depend on what's in the load:

• Electronic waste recycling for general equipment, with reuse reviewed before anything is recycled.
• Battery recycling, including the lithium and industrial formats common in Fremont and Newark.
• Secure data destruction or on-site hard drive shredding for drives from labs, clinics and offices.
• Data center and UPS decommissioning for server rooms and battery strings.

Every Alameda County account runs on our six-step program: containers, training, pickup, tracking, processing and reports. Our own crews drive every route from our Sacramento facility; we don't subcontract pickups, even for a Port of Oakland dock or a Livermore lab. Loads are processed under our ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 certifications, with a certificate of recycling or destruction at the end.

Pickups are for businesses, institutions and public agencies, so Alameda County households aren't part of our service. Our sister company, Secure Recycle, handles consumer electronics at the same Sacramento location, 3921 Pell Circle, though most East Bay residents will find a closer site on CalRecycle's list of collection locations. Whichever you choose, electronics don't belong in the trash: California's universal waste rules prohibit it.

Is there a minimum pickup size?

It depends on your route and the material. A stop on one of our scheduled East Bay routes can usually take a smaller load than a special trip, so tell us your equipment type and rough volume and we'll confirm what applies.

Can you handle several sites in the county?

Yes. Multi-site clients can combine, say, an Oakland office, a Hayward warehouse and a Tri-Valley branch into one program, with separate tickets and certificates for each location.

Request a quote with your city, a rough item list and any deadline, such as a lease end or a lab move, and we'll schedule the pickup around it.