Walnut Creek anchors the county's densest commercial district. The BART-connected downtown core and Broadway Plaza retail corridor pack regional corporate offices, law firms, and financial advisors in alongside big-box and specialty retailers, all within a few walkable blocks. That density means more simultaneous office refreshes, retail remodels, and lease-turnover equipment retirements than most Contra Costa suburbs see in a year, and property managers here are used to coordinating multiple vendors on tight timelines. Commuters who ride BART in from across the county also mean the office population turns over equipment on corporate schedules rather than a slower, small-town pace, so a single tenant move can generate several pallets of retired IT gear in one afternoon.
- Downtown corporate offices — regional and satellite offices retiring desktops, monitors, and networking equipment during lease turnovers or IT refresh cycles.
- Broadway Plaza-area retailers — POS terminals, back-office computers, and security systems replaced during store remodels or seasonal resets.
- Financial and wealth management firms — client records on aging hard drives that require certified, documented destruction before disposal, not a quick wipe.
Desktops, laptops, monitors, printers and copiers, networking and POS equipment, phones, all battery chemistries, and hard drives destroyed on-site or in-facility with full chain-of-custody documentation, sized for a single office suite or a coordinated multi-floor tenant move. We also handle the smaller items that pile up in a downtown office: old projectors, conference-room AV gear, shredders, and the tangle of cables that accumulates behind every desk.
If you're comparing e-waste recyclers, a few questions separate them quickly. Does the vendor run its own pickups, or hand them to a subcontractor or parcel carrier? Ours are run by our own crews out of Sacramento. Which certifications are current? We hold ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001. What happens to hard drives, and can they be shredded at your office? Finally, what does the closeout paperwork look like? A certificate of destruction and a receiving report are what you'll show a client or regulator later, so ask for a sample.
Our six steps, in order: containers and labels placed in the office or stockroom, training for the people filling them, a pickup or on-site shredding visit by our crew, tracking under a ticket number, processing at our Sacramento facility with data handled first, and certificates and a report in the client portal.
No. California's universal waste rules keep most electronics and batteries out of household and commercial trash. Modern Waste Solutions works only with businesses and public agencies. If you're a Walnut Creek resident with old electronics, our sister company Secure Recycle takes household electronics at 3921 Pell Circle in Sacramento, or you can use a Contra Costa site listed by CalRecycle.
Every Walnut Creek pickup runs under our ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001-certified process, giving downtown offices and retailers the same documented, audit-ready handling as any large-scale IT decommissioning job, with a certificate of destruction for every job that includes drive destruction, and drive-by-drive serial listings at the top service tier. That level of documentation is especially useful for financial firms that need to show clients and regulators exactly how old data-bearing devices were handled.
Request a quote and we'll schedule pickup around your business hours, and around a store's busiest trading times. Property managers coordinating a multi-tenant clear-out can request a single scoped visit that covers several suites at once, rather than booking separate pickups floor by floor. We also serve nearby Orinda, Lafayette, and Concord.
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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.


