San Mateo's downtown and Caltrain corridor are lined with mid-rise office towers that lease to a mix of professional-services firms and Peninsula biotech tenants, with the train station itself anchoring a dense pocket of businesses that turn over equipment on a predictable commuter-office schedule. Both generate a steady flow of retired IT equipment, but the shared thread is data: every laptop and drive leaving a San Mateo office has been sitting on a commuter's desk long enough to accumulate files nobody wants surfacing later.
- Office tower tenants — professional-services and financial firms retiring workstations and networking gear during lease renewals along the Caltrain corridor.
- Biotech and life-science offices — lab-support computers, instrumentation, and networking equipment retired as San Mateo's life-sciences footprint expands.
- Property managers — coordinating bulk pickup for electronics left behind after multi-tenant office turnover or a building-wide refresh.
Desktops, laptops, monitors, networking equipment, printers, phones, all battery types, and hard drives, collected with certified on-site shredding or in-facility destruction and chain-of-custody paperwork for every load, down to device serial numbers when your scope calls for them. That holds whether it's a single office suite or an entire tower floor.
Lease-driven refreshes have a fixed end date, so we plan the six steps backward from it. Containers arrive early enough for staff to fill them, with a short briefing on keeping drives and lab-support devices separate. Our crew makes the pickup before move-out, and the load is tracked against your release list. Processing at our Sacramento facility handles drives first. The closing reports are released once processing and reconciliation are complete, so flag any audit or lease-return deadline when you book.
No. In California most discarded electronics and batteries are universal waste and have to go to an authorized recycler. We don't provide residential services; pickups are for businesses. San Mateo households can recycle electronics through our sister company, Secure Recycle, at the same Sacramento address, 3921 Pell Circle, or use a Peninsula collection site from CalRecycle's list.
San Mateo pickups follow our ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001-certified process, so office towers and biotech tenants alike get documented, auditable handling of every retired device, with certificates of destruction available for compliance files.
Request a quote and let us know if you need on-site drive shredding before equipment ever leaves the building, or if you're coordinating a multi-suite office turnover. We also serve nearby Redwood City and San Bruno.
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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.
