North Highlands is an unincorporated community in north Sacramento County that grew around McClellan Air Force Base. Since the base closed in 2001, its hangars and buildings have been redeveloped as McClellan Park, a business park with warehouses, logistics operations, manufacturers, government tenants, and offices. The residential neighborhoods around Watt Avenue and Elkhorn Boulevard fill in the rest.
The mix of tenants means a mix of e-waste. A distribution warehouse retires handheld scanners and forklift batteries, a contractor clears a server closet, an office moves and leaves a pallet of monitors behind. North Highlands is also one of the closest communities to our recycling center, which makes frequent pickups practical.
- warehouse electronics: handheld scanners, label printers, and rugged tablets
- forklift, pallet-jack, and other industrial batteries, plus UPS units
- servers, network racks, and phone systems from offices and data rooms
- computers, monitors, printers, and copiers
- test and control equipment from light manufacturing tenants
- hard drives and backup media for destruction
Large rack or UPS removals can be handled as a data center decommissioning project.
Because the trip is short, many North Highlands customers use a regular route stop instead of waiting for a pile to build. We supply containers for electronics and separate ones for batteries, collect them on schedule, and record each load when it arrives. Reusable equipment is evaluated for resale. The rest is dismantled and sorted by material, and each stream goes to an approved recycler. Loads are processed under our ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 certifications, and you receive certificates and reports.
Business park tenants often have contract or audit requirements for data disposal. We can wipe drives to NIST 800-88 with a per-serial record, shred them at our plant, or shred them at your site. Each option ends with a certificate of destruction. The hard drive destruction page lays out the differences.
No. California regulates discarded electronics and most batteries as universal waste, so they're not allowed in household or commercial trash. That includes the dumpster behind a warehouse. Industrial lead acid batteries must go to a recycler.
Yes. Our own recycling center at 3921 Pell Circle, Sacramento, is a short drive from North Highlands. Businesses can book pickups or deliver small loads there; see business e-waste drop-off in Sacramento for what to bring. We don't provide residential services. North Highlands households can recycle electronics through our sister company, Secure Recycle, at the same Sacramento address.
Request a quote or tell us your building and suite in McClellan Park and what you need removed. We also serve nearby Antelope, Rio Linda, and Sacramento, and all of Sacramento County.
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.
