Kern County Electronics Recycling Services

Kern County produces more oil than any other county in California, and fields such as the Kern River oil field sit right beside some of the state's largest farming operations. Bakersfield, the county seat, holds the offices, warehouses and dispatch centers for both industries. Their e-waste tends to arrive in large, mixed loads: ruggedized field laptops, radios, SCADA and monitoring gear, and fleets of batteries alongside ordinary office computers.

• Bakersfield: oil, agriculture and logistics companies with volume loads.
• Oildale: field offices on the Kern River oil field, with SCADA and battery-backed equipment.
• Pleasant Valley: small agricultural and oil-services operations outside Bakersfield.
• Delano: table-grape packing houses, cold storage and light-industrial suppliers.

Our Kern County route also covers Shafter, Wasco, McFarland, Arvin, Lamont, Tehachapi, Rosamond, California City and Ridgecrest. Farther-flung stops are usually grouped into one run, so tell us your location when you ask for a quote.

Businesses can include desktops, laptops, ruggedized field devices, servers, networking and radio equipment, industrial control and monitoring electronics, copiers, phone systems, monitors and TVs, UPS units, all battery chemistries and hard drives. Large-format batteries, such as forklift and backup batteries, should be listed separately so we bring the right containers. The work draws on:

• Electronic waste recycling for mixed equipment loads.
• Battery recycling for loose, equipment and industrial batteries.
• Data center and UPS decommissioning for server rooms and battery strings.
• Secure data destruction for field and office drives.

For a warehouse or field-office clear-out we scope the job first, then run the six steps: containers, training, a pickup by our own crew, tracking that keeps documentation on each item in a mixed load, reuse-first processing at our Sacramento facility, and certificates and reports. Pickups run under our ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 certifications.

Pickups are for businesses and agencies only, so Kern County households aren't part of our service. Residents can find a collection site on CalRecycle's list, which will be closer than Sacramento, where our sister company, Secure Recycle, takes consumer electronics at 3921 Pell Circle. Electronics and batteries can't go in the trash anywhere in California. They're universal waste.

Can you come out to a remote field office?

Yes. We group outlying stops into planned runs, so a field office or packing shed away from Bakersfield can be scheduled with others in the same area. Minimums depend on the route and the material involved.

What happens to equipment that still works?

Working equipment is reviewed for reuse or resale after its data is wiped or destroyed. Anything that can't be reused is dismantled and recycled. Recovery value depends on the inventory, so we don't assume it in advance.

Request a quote with your city, equipment types and volume, and we'll schedule a pickup for your Kern County location.