Daly City packs more households per square mile than almost anywhere else on the Peninsula, and its commercial strips along Mission Street and Serramonte are dominated by independent shops rather than corporate offices. That shapes what our customers here need recycled: point-of-sale equipment from a strip-mall business closing out old gear, and TVs and laptops left behind when apartment units turn over. The volumes and timelines look very different from the office towers a few exits up the freeway.
- Independent retail and service shops: point-of-sale terminals, phones, and small networking gear retired as neighborhood storefronts upgrade their equipment.
- Multi-family building managers: coordinating bulk pickup for electronics abandoned or left behind by outgoing tenants across multiple units in Daly City's dense apartment and condo stock.
TVs, laptops, desktops, monitors, printers, phones, small networking gear, and all battery chemistries, collected with the same certified handling as a corporate account regardless of volume or building size.
Copiers, phone systems, modems and routers, UPS backups, audio and video gear and battery-embedded devices also qualify. For a building manager, that means the full range of what tenants leave behind, apart from ordinary furniture and trash.
Our recycling center is our facility in Sacramento, at 3921 Pell Circle. We don't run a drop-off site in Daly City; we come to Daly City businesses and building managers by appointment. Residents looking for Daly City recycling options for household electronics can use our sister company, Secure Recycle, at the same Sacramento address, though for most people on the Peninsula a local collection site from CalRecycle's list will be closer. We don't provide residential services ourselves.
Six steps, sized down for a storefront or up for a building: containers, training, pickup by our own crew, tracking under a ticket, reuse-first processing, and certificates and reports.
Every Daly City pickup, no matter how small, follows our ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001-certified process, so a single storefront pickup gets the same documented, responsible handling as a full building clear-out.
No. TVs, laptops and other electronics are universal waste in California and can't go in a building's trash or recycling bins. Set them aside for a pickup; computer recycling for a Daly City building goes on the same visit. Laptops and computers are treated as data-bearing, so their drives are wiped or destroyed before any reuse, even if a tenant says they were cleared.
Request a quote for a storefront or building pickup, and we'll scale the visit and the truck to the load, from a few boxes to a multi-unit clear-out. Households can use Secure Recycle. We also serve neighboring San Bruno, San Francisco, and Pacifica.
No obligation. We respond same business day.
Reviews
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.


