Washoe County is anchored by Reno, a full-scale city with a casino and hospitality core downtown, the University of Nevada, Reno, and a fast-growing data center and manufacturing corridor that stretches toward the Tesla Gigafactory. Sparks, its adjoining sister city, is built around warehouse, logistics and distribution-center scale. Between them, the county retires office IT, casino and hotel systems, warehouse scanners and data infrastructure in volume.
Our Northern Nevada route extends east into Lyon County and serves other Washoe County addresses on request.
Businesses can include servers and networking racks, UPS systems, desktops, laptops, monitors and TVs, copiers and printers, phone systems, warehouse-management terminals and scanners, point-of-sale and gaming-floor back-office equipment, all battery chemistries and hard drives. Depending on the load:
Our own crews drive the Northern Nevada route from our Sacramento facility; we don't subcontract pickups across the state line. Each job follows six steps: containers, training, pickup, tracking under a ticket number, processing at our facility with drives handled first, and certificates and reports. Washoe County pickups run under our ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 certifications.
Pickups are for businesses and agencies only; we don't provide residential services. Our sister company, Secure Recycle, takes household electronics at our Sacramento address, 3921 Pell Circle, which is a long way from Reno. Washoe County residents should check with the county or their local waste provider about options closer to home.
Yes. We run recurring route-based pickups and on-call pickups, which suits warehouses and hotels with steady equipment turnover.
Yes. Multi-state clients can run California and Northern Nevada locations under one account, with reports kept by site in our client portal.
Request a quote with your city, equipment type and volume, and we'll schedule pickup for your Washoe County location.
No obligation. We respond same business day.
Prefer to talk? Call (916) 339-3676.
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!
