Watsonville anchors one of the country's most productive strawberry and berry-growing regions, and its packing houses and cold-storage warehouses run control systems, scanners, and battery-powered material-handling equipment around the clock during harvest season. When that equipment reaches end of life, it needs a recycler that understands industrial agricultural operations, not just office cleanouts.
Desktops, laptops, scanners, control-room electronics, networking gear, monitors, printers, all battery chemistries including forklift and industrial batteries, and hard drives with certified destruction. Cold-storage sites often add temperature monitors and backup-power units.
Harvest season fills the storage room, so battery, scanner and computer recycling is planned around the off-season using our six steps. We supply battery tubs and drums sized for forklift and material-handling batteries, and train your crew to keep chemistries apart and pull damaged batteries aside. Our own truck makes the pickup. The load is logged by weight and date, processed at our Sacramento facility, and documented with certificates and a report for your safety and environmental records.
No. Industrial batteries, scanners and control electronics are regulated in California, most of them as universal waste, and they have to reach an authorized recycler. Watsonville households are covered by the same rule. We don't offer residential service ourselves. Household electronics go to Secure Recycle, our sister company for consumers, which operates from our Sacramento address at 3921 Pell Circle, and CalRecycle lists Santa Cruz County sites.
Watsonville pickups run under our ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001-certified process, with documented chain-of-custody for every load, including higher-volume seasonal cleanouts.
Request a quote and let us know if your pickup includes industrial batteries or control-room equipment so we can plan the right handling. We also serve nearby Santa Cruz and Salinas.
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Battery Recycling
We can recycle virtually all types of batteries. In most cases, it is either best practice or required to separate batteries by chemistry type.
Data Center Decommissioning
Complete decommissioning of data centers and UPS systems, including equipment removal, data sanitization, and compliant recycling.
Business Electronics Recycling
Our electronic waste recycling services prioritize security and compliance, ensuring responsible disposal while also boosting your bottom line.
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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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.
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!
Thank You Gretchen! We are happy to make a difference.
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.
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.
We truly appreciate your generous review! 😊 It's fantastic to know our team was able to assist you with your hard drive destruction needs efficiently. We are so glad to hear you had a pleasing experience with us. Our door is always open for all your future recycling needs!
