Salinas processes a huge share of the nation's leafy greens and vegetables, giving it a dense cluster of agricultural processing and distribution companies with control systems, scales, and office electronics to match. It's also home to Natividad Medical Center, the county's public hospital, which brings a steady stream of retired workstations and patient-record hard drives that need HIPAA-aware handling.
- Agricultural processors and distributors — control-room electronics, scales, scanners, and networking equipment.
- Healthcare facilities: workstations, servers, and patient-record hard drives requiring HIPAA-aware destruction.
- Regional offices and small businesses — routine desktop, laptop, and printer turnover across the Salinas Valley.
Desktops, laptops, servers, control-room electronics, monitors, printers, phones, all battery chemistries, and hard drives with certified, HIPAA-aware destruction. Packing-line scales and handheld scanners come off the same floors, and cold-storage operations often add forklift and backup-power batteries to the load. Office computer recycling from processors and clinics rides along on the same pickup.
Harvest timing and patient data pull the six steps in different directions, so we plan each account separately. For a processor, the important parts are containers that can sit on a busy floor and staff training on keeping batteries sorted by chemistry, with the pickup booked for the gap between seasons. For a healthcare facility, the weight falls on tracking, where patient-record drives can be logged by serial number, and on processing, where those drives are wiped or shredded before anything is reused. Both get certificates and a report at the end.
No. California regulates most discarded electronics and batteries as universal waste, so scales, scanners and dead forklift batteries can't go in the dumpster. The business stays responsible for them until they reach an authorized recycler.
Salinas households follow the same rule. Modern Waste Solutions works only with businesses and public agencies. Our sister company Secure Recycle takes household electronics at 3921 Pell Circle in Sacramento, though a Monterey County site listed by CalRecycle will be far closer for most people.
Salinas pickups run under our ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001-certified process, with the documented chain-of-custody healthcare providers and agricultural companies both require.
Request a quote and tell us what you have up front so we can schedule the right crew. We also serve nearby Watsonville and Seaside.
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.
