Auburn has spent more than a century as Placer County's seat of government, and that history shows up directly in its electronics stream. County departments — the assessor's office, courts, public works, and social services among them — retire records-heavy PCs, scanners, servers, and networking gear on formal procurement schedules, while the historic downtown's antique shops, cafes, and tourism outfitters swap out point-of-sale terminals at a pace that tracks Gold Country's tourist season more than any corporate calendar, with a noticeable uptick in equipment turnover after the busy spring and summer visitor months wind down. Add the foothill professional-services base that's grown up around the courthouse — law firms, real estate offices, title companies, and contractors handling everything from probate filings to rural land transactions — and you get a town where nineteenth-century architecture and modern IT refresh cycles sit two blocks apart, both needing somewhere responsible to send retired hardware.
- County and municipal offices — administrative departments retiring desktops, printers, scanners, and networking equipment on formal replacement schedules tied to county procurement cycles.
- Historic downtown merchants — tourism-driven shops, cafes, and outfitters replacing point-of-sale systems and back-office computers between the region's busy spring and summer seasons.
- Foothill professional services — law firms, real estate offices, title companies, and contractors clearing out aging electronics between Auburn and the surrounding unincorporated foothill communities.
Desktops, laptops, servers, monitors, printers, scanners, point-of-sale systems, conference-room and office AV equipment, phones, all battery chemistries, and hard drives with certified destruction — collected on the same regional route that serves the rest of Placer County, with scheduling flexible enough to work around a courthouse calendar or a storefront's tourist season.
The same list covers what a title company or a café actually has in the back room: copiers, phone systems, TVs, routers and modems, UPS battery backups, and small battery-powered devices. If you aren't sure an item qualifies, list it on the quote request and we'll tell you.
Auburn pickups are processed under our ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001 certified management systems, with tracked chain of custody and a certificate of recycling or destruction for county and business compliance files. The work follows six steps:
- Equipment: bins and labels for each material, so batteries and electronics aren't mixed.
- Training: our Field Service Managers show staff how to use them.
- Pickup: our own crew, on the Placer County route.
- Tracking: a ticket number, weights and, when your scope includes it, serial numbers.
- Processing: reuse first, then dismantling and recycling at our Sacramento facility.
- Reports: certificates and a receiving report, kept in our client portal.
Not in town. Our recycling center is our Sacramento facility at 3921 Pell Circle, and we come to Auburn to collect from businesses. We don't provide residential services. Residents looking for recycling in Auburn, CA can use our sister company, Secure Recycle, which serves households from the same Sacramento address, or one of the collection sites CalRecycle lists for the foothills. Either way, electronics don't belong in the trash: California's universal waste rules prohibit it.
Records-heavy PCs and servers from county departments go through secure data destruction before anything else happens to them. At the top service tier, the certificate of destruction lists every drive by make, model and serial number, which gives a county department a drive-level record for its files.
Request a quote and we'll route your pickup through our regular Placer County stops, timed around your office or storefront's schedule. We also serve Rocklin, Lincoln, and Placerville close by.
No obligation. We respond same business day.
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A little bit off the beaten track in Natomas, but Modern Waste quickly and efficiently helped me recycle my broken Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries at a reasonable $/lb fee (Sac county e-waste will not accept these items). Ramiro and Vincent were very friendly and helpful.
Chris was awesome! He came in and picked up all of the e-waste we had ready for him. He was polite and professional throughout the entire process. He handled the equipment with care, including the site equipment that was already in place. I am very happy with his service and appreciate the great job he did.
Aaron and Vincent were awesome, excellent customer service!
Great guys, excellent customer service, highly recommend!
Polite, quick and easy.
Chris from modern waste was the most outstanding respectful person I ever met my life when he was done he offered to sweep the floors. He offered so much even though he was limited on time he went out of his way and he’s over beyond best guy I ever met thank you so much for your service services Dan ITG.


