Electronics Recycling in Chico, CA

Chico's identity runs through two big institutions: CSU Chico, whose departments and administrative offices cycle through computer labs, classroom AV equipment, and office electronics every academic year as budgets refresh and old hardware ages past its useful life, typically clearing out the heaviest volume between spring commencement and the start of fall semester, and Enloe Medical Center, the regional hospital generating its own steady stream of retired IT, monitoring, and imaging-adjacent equipment tied to its role as Butte County's primary trauma and referral center. Beyond the city limits, Butte County's almond orchards and processing facilities add a third layer entirely — offices, scale houses, and equipment yards tied to harvest-season record-keeping, with electronics needs that look nothing like a campus computer lab or a hospital IT closet but still require the same certified handling. That combination of academic, healthcare, and agricultural users gives Chico one of the more varied electronics streams of any city on our North Valley route.

• University departments and offices — CSU Chico administrative units and academic departments retiring computer labs, classroom AV equipment, and networking gear on academic-year cycles.
• Hospital and healthcare systems — Enloe Medical Center and area clinics needing secure destruction of patient-data-bearing hardware and retired monitoring equipment.
• Agricultural businesses — almond processors and farm operations around Chico replacing office computers, scale-house electronics, and equipment tied to harvest-season record-keeping.

Desktops, laptops, servers, monitors, printers, networking equipment, classroom and lab AV gear, phones, all battery chemistries, and hard drives with certified destruction — sized for a single department office up through a full campus-building refresh, and available on short notice for hospital equipment that can't sit in storage.

Printers and copiers, phone systems, TVs, modems and routers, UPS backups and battery-embedded devices round out the list. A scale house's terminals and a department's projector cart can share a truck.

Six steps, whether the load comes from a campus office, a clinic or an orchard office: containers and labels, training, pickup by our own North Valley crew, tracking under a ticket number, processing at our Sacramento facility with reuse ahead of recycling, and reports and certificates at the end.

Every Chico pickup is processed under our ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001 certified management systems, with tracked chain of custody and a certificate of recycling or destruction for university, hospital, and business compliance needs, including the documentation CSU Chico's procurement office and Enloe's compliance team typically require on file.

No. California's universal waste rules apply in Chico as everywhere else: discarded electronics and batteries can't go in trash carts or dumpsters. Businesses, campus departments and clinics can book a pickup with us. We don't provide residential services. For household e-waste, Chico residents can check CalRecycle's list for a Butte County collection site, or use our sister company, Secure Recycle, at 3921 Pell Circle in Sacramento.

Computer recycling for Chico organizations starts with a pickup on our truck to Sacramento. Hospital and university computers usually carry data-destruction requirements, so their drives go through secure data destruction before the hardware is reviewed for reuse or recycled.

Request a quote and we'll schedule your pickup on our North Valley route, whether it's timed around a semester break or a harvest-season office cleanout. We also serve Redding, Yuba City, and Live Oak nearby.