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.
Pleasant Hill's BART-adjacent office towers and commercial corridor along Contra Costa Boulevard mean more multi-tenant buildings and corporate offices than a typical suburb — which means bigger, more coordinated equipment retirements when a floor or a whole tenant moves out.
- Corporate tenants — full-floor office moves and lease-end clear-outs involving desktops, monitors, and networking equipment.
- Property managers — coordinating e-waste removal left behind by departing tenants across multi-tenant buildings.
- IT departments — server closet and UPS decommissioning for offices consolidating or relocating.
Most Pleasant Hill jobs are computer recycling at heart: desktops, laptops, monitors, printers and copiers, networking equipment, UPS units, phones, all battery chemistries, and hard drives with certified destruction, sized for anything from a single office to a full-floor clear-out. When a tenant leaves in a hurry, we also see desk phones, conference-room displays and the odd box of chargers nobody claimed.
Lease-end jobs tend to follow the same sequence:
- The property manager or facilities lead tells us the floors, the rough volume and the move-out date.
- We place carts or gaylords and walk the tenant's staff through what to separate, mainly drives and batteries.
- Our crew handles the pickup, using the building's dock and freight elevator windows.
- The load is tracked and processed in Sacramento.
- Certificates and a report go to whoever needs them, whether that's the departing tenant, the landlord, or both.
They can't. California treats most discarded electronics and batteries as universal waste, and they have to go to an authorized recycler instead of the building's trash service. That's worth writing into move-out instructions. Residents of Pleasant Hill are covered by the same rule. Pleasant Hill households aren't part of our service, since we work with businesses and institutions; our sister company, Secure Recycle, handles consumer electronics at the same Sacramento location, 3921 Pell Circle, and CalRecycle lists closer sites.
Pleasant Hill jobs run under the same ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001-certified process as every pickup we do, with tracked chain-of-custody suited to multi-tenant, multi-stakeholder projects.
Request a quote — for larger commercial jobs, we'll scope the volume with your property manager or facilities team before scheduling. We also serve nearby Orinda.
No obligation. We respond same business day.
Prefer to talk? Call (916) 339-3676.
This was our first time working with MWS and they were amazing! Quick response time, efficient, and friendly. Ivan was the team member who was on site for the pickup, and he was great. He worked quickly, is very knowledgeable, and is so kind. It was so easy working with him. We are looking forward to using MWS for our E-waste and Universal waste needs in the future. - Sacramento City College Sustainability
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Josh Bardet
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Gretchen Langevin
We had another vendor cancel on us last minute & Modern Waste jumped into action & was able to help us with ewaste & critical document shredding overnight. Team was helpful, professional & got the job done quickly & efficiently. We were able to complete an office move out/shut down in a day with their help! Highly recommend this business!
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Shawnna Borremans
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.
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I needed hard drives on some old laptops destroyed so any old personal information can't be stolen. The guys there were friendly and helpful and fast. Thanks Pavel and Vincent. Thanks Modern Waste for doing a helpful fast service to us.


