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We TAKE: Laptop, Computer, Monitor, TV, Keyboard, Cables, AC adaptor, Network / Telephone / Test equipment, Printer , industrial and institutional electronics!
We REUSE First, and Recycle second. We take all Business & Home
ELECTRONICS with a battery or plug, working and NONworking.
3 ways to get it FROM: YOU, TO: CRC:
1. Drop-off at our facilities and neighborhood collection
2. Use our "Business Pick-up" request form (top of this page) - we come to you!
3. FREE shipping for your laptops - We pay for shipping laptops
Drop-Off Locations!
Santa Rosa - Tues-SAT 9am-4:30pm (closed for Lunch 12:30-1) Click here
San Francisco MARINA Green, SAT February 13th, 2010, 9am-1PM
Click here
San Francisco Embarcadero 2, Thurs., February 18th, 2010, 10am-2PM
Click here
San Francisco Giants AT&T Park, Starting February, 2010 Click here
Sunnyvale Opening February, 2010.
Special Events - Click here
Pollution Prevention Awareness
REusing electronics instead of end-of-life recycling, reduces pollution! Call us to schedule a FREE collection event at your buisness for your equipment, OR for your employees to bring unused electronics to work to drop-off.
Call toll-free in California, 1-88-88-usedPC [1-888-887-3372]
Awards & Testimonials
ANNUAL Napa Collection Event June 12/13, 2009 unloaded 1111 vehicles.
Electronics collected=62+ tons in 2009 vs. 65+ tons in 2008.
REuse of computer equipment=7+ tons in 2009, vs. 4+ tons in 2008.
"Please let me take this opportunity to thank Napa Recycling & Waste
Services, the Computer Recycling Center, .....................the County
of Napa and my City of Napa recycling staff for all of their hard
work and efforts to make this year's event another successful effort.
To the best of our knowledge, Napa's event is again the highest per
capita collection event in the State of California so far this year." -
Kevin Miller, City of Napa
Winner of an Environmental Award from U.S. Congressman Mike Thompson for the work of Computer Recycling Center - REusing computers keep them out of the wastestream and REusing valuable resources!
REPAIR CENTER
Santa Rosa CRC-Computer Repair Center FULL Service Laptop/Computer Repair, 9am-5PM Tuesday though Saturday, at 3227 Santa Rosa Ave. - 707.528.8340.
Laptops & Desktops MAC & PC, Flat panels, ON SALE Tues-Sat, 9am-5PM.
Inventory changes daily.
"Saturday S a l e" 9am - 2PM in Santa Rosa; odds & ends, misc. electronics, home electronics, computers, & TV's for sale to the public. Inventory changes weekly; drop in and purchase used and new-old-stock items.
Drop-Off: ALL computers and electronics - working and nonworking: Computers, Network, Telephone, Cellphone, Office Electronics, Industrial Electronics, warehouse overstocks of parts & equipment , TVs, cable, circuit boards, batteries. (Recycling for Computers, Laptops, Electronics, eWaste, and eRecycling) Scrap computers and parts are reduced to recyclable metal, plastic, P.C.Board, and cable and GREEN environmentally recycled. Electronics Recycling AND Computer Recycling
Printers / Copiers / UPS with batteries installed:
1-19 pounds = No Charge;
20-49 lb.=$10.; 50-100 lb.=$20.;
101-150 lb.=$40.; 151-250lb.=$100.
Microwaves=$10.
NO: We do NOT take large home appliances (white-box appliances), chemicals, styrofoam, cardboard, or paper.
Please recycle paper and cardboard through curbside recycling.
Recycle chemicals & batteries at county/city toxic cleanup days.
Business Pickups: If you have 1+ working laptop, or 10+ computers or monitors you may request a FREE business pickup. We also accept electronic parts, cable, circuit boards, heat sinks, etc. We give first priority to REusing your equipment, and we provide Electronic Recycling for unusable equipment for most items with a battery or plug. We no longer pickup copiers and UPS over 150 lbs.
See "For Business Pickups Click Here" at the top of this page
or call toll-free 1-88-88-usedPC(1-888-887-3372).
FREE Stuff for teachers and nonprofits: for the price of shipping!
When companies donate new items that we can distribute for free, we will make these items available to teachers and nonprofits for FREE. You pay the shipping and we will send "it". We will post here, items we can distribute FREE. Please check this space!
For available computers, please see "apply for a computer", above. click here
REUSE PROGRAMS to Foster Youth and their families!
We offer computers to CASA local programs for Foster Youth and Families, and to city and county agencies for low-income home-bound elderly. We will coordinate a program for your volunteer to refurbish the computer you wish to give out to your client. Teachers- you can also coordinate to refurbish a computer for your classroom. Please note: we do not deal with your clients, only your agency. Contact CRC Computer Repair Center at 3227 Santa Rosa Ave Unit C, 95407 for information.
Laptops (Windows P4 /P3 , iBook / Powerbooks G5 /4 /3) and flat panel displays - can be REused if working, and we work to repair all nonworking laptops for REuse. All older laptops and parts that can not be reused are ENVIRONMENTALLY GREEN REcycled (Electronic Recycling) by Computer Recycling in California. In the U.S.A. Send your laptops to our program "LAPTOPS WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE" We Pay Your shipping cost to send us your laptops and laptop parts.Click here!
DESTROY your HARDDRIVE DATAClick here!
HOW MUCH? How many computers and monitors and TV's and electronics..... are discarded, thrown away, hidden away in closets, garages, basements....etc.
U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) - Reports that 3 Million pounds PER DAY of electronics and computer equipment is taken out-of-service.
The U.S. EPA has added a "REuse calculator" to thier website to show how much in earth-resources are SAVED every time we REUSE a computer system. Resources include WATER, ENERGY, and everything else going into the products that make up the computer system. SAVE $ 670.00 in earth natural resources REusing a computer system instead of end-of-life recycling. Keep the earth GREEN, reduce greenhouse gasses/emissions, keep water CLEAN and protect our planet from trash and polution. Find out more at http://www.federalelectronicschallenge.net/resources/bencalc.htm
TV's - SVTC Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition reports that Consumers Union estimates 80,000,000 (eighty-million) analog TV's will be recycled starting in February 2009 when all TV programing goes digital. One out of every 8 people in the United States live in California (population 38 million), equaling approximatly 10 million OLD TV's!
California SB20/50, the California "2003 Electronics Recycling Act" adds a fee when purchasing a 'covered electronic waste' (CEW) item, currently a TV, computer Monitor, or DVD player with a screen larger than 7" diagonally measured. Computer Recycling Center is registered with the DTSC California Dept. of Toxic Substances and the CIWMB California Integrated Waste Management Board and collects SB20/50 items.
Used computers/electronics still have value to people that can't afford new
We don't need to throw stuff away just cause we don't want it or don't use it. Put your used electronics to work as a valuable resource in the community! If you don't want it anymore and it works, someone else may want it. If it doesn't work, someone may be willing to fix it and use it! Check your STATE website for REuse programs.
"It's not all eWaste; MORE than 62% of all the computers laptops monitors and flat panels we REuse with some repair and refurbishment! Thats a lot of electronics that ARE NOT disposed of", says Steven Wyatt at Computer Recycling Center. Thanks for doing your part to REuse FIRST, and then recycle!
DROP-OFF LOCATIONS
(click city names or scroll down for more information):
Santa Rosa, San Francisco
| Address: | 3227 Santa Rosa Avenue, 95407 |
| Drop-Off Hours: | Tues-SAT 9am-4:30pm (closed for Lunch-12:30 to 1) |
| Directions: | US 101 to Hearn Ave. exit. TURN RIGHT on Santa Rosa Ave. (south) We are 1 mile on right side after the new building for RCU Auto Services. We are the first building on the right, down the driveway. |
| LIMIT: | No Limit, Please Call to inform us when you have 15+ monitors/computers/large items. |
| LOCATION 1: | Marina Green, 100 Marina Blvd in the Marina Green Parking Lot, across from Safeway |
| Directions: | Marina Blvd. to Buchanan St., Fort Mason entrance, across from Safeway. Enter Pkg lot at Marina Blvd. & Buchanan, and turn LEFT, away from Ft. Mason. Follow the green & orange traffic cones to the Large Box Truck. |
| Date: | NEW HOURS Saturday, February 13th, 2010, 9am-1PM |
| LIMIT: | 20 Monitors, 20 computers, 5 TVs 2 printer/fax, NO item over 90 pounds, NO copiers. (FREE business pickup, 10+ monitor or CPU) |
| LOCATION 2: | AT&T Park (3rd St between bridge & park) |
| Directions: | To Be Announced |
| Date: | Next Year 2009 - To Be Announced |
| LIMIT: | No limit on Monitors & complete Computers; LIMIT 2 printer/fax, 5 TV NO item over 90 pounds. NO copiers. |
| LOCATION 3: | Embarcadero 2 (Davis St. between Clay St. and Sacramento St.) |
| Directions: | Clay or Washington to Davis St. (between Clay and Sacramento) Curbside drop-off, after the garage entrance and before the crosswalk. |
| Date: | Thursday, February 18th, 2010, 10am-2PM |
| LIMIT: | No limit on Monitors & complete Computers; LIMIT 2-printer/fax, 2 TV, NO item over 90 pounds. NO copiers. (FREE business pickup 10+ monitor or CPU) |
Sunnyvale Opening February, 2010
| Address: | 94089 |
| Drop-Off Hours: | Opening February, 2010 |
| Directions: | Opening February, 2010 |
| LIMIT: | No Limit, Please Call to inform us when you have 15+ monitors/computers/large items. |
FREE drop off, NO LIMIT for TV's, Monitors, Computers, Laptops, computer parts
Limit 2 Printers. Sorry, NO washer/ dryer/ stove/ refrigerator/ microwave.
Business Pickups
If your business has 2+ working laptops P4/G4,G5, 5+ working P4 towers, or 10+ items (computers/monitors/laptops) please request a business pickup with the "business pickup request" form (b.p.u.r. form). We will reserve space on the truck for ALL items you list on the form, including keyboards, mice, cables, external devices, etc. Special arrangements are made for oversized items; ie: large copiers, servers, UPS, large printers & plotters, etc. There is a FEE for oversized items based on size, weight, type of equipment, and location. Please fill out the b.p.u.r. form and we will contact you within 2 business days of receiving it to confirm receipt, and to discuss scheduling a pickup.
We no longer pickup copiers and UPS over 150 lbs. Please call a moving company.
Please fill out the "business pickup request" form, or print - fill in - and fax. We will contact you to coordinate a pickup date and details. You may also call toll-free 1-88-88-usedPC (1-888-887-3372) and we will take your information over-the-phone.
IT IS ILLEGAL to trash electronics in dumpsters and garbage cans. Please Recycle!
DESTROY your HARDDRIVE DATA - WE SUGGEST THAT YOU WIPE YOUR HARD DRIVE. If we reuse your harddrive, we use DISK WIPE software to overwrite the HDD, and install a new O/S. We SHRED all other harddrives for metals recycling. Click on our Newsletter for info about destroying your personal info on your HDD.
"LAPTOPS WANTED - DEAD OR ALIVE". We pay your ground shipping cost to Donate laptops - Pentium 3 & 4 and iBook /Powerbook G3, G4 & G5. Wrap your laptop with BUBBLE wrap (OR crumpled Newspaper) all the way around, and stuff enough bubble wrap (OR Newspaper) at each corner in the box, to protect the corners. PLEASE put ac adaptors, spare batteries, accessories, etc. on the BOTTOM of the box under the laptop; never over the screen because it can damage the screen. If you remove the hard drive, be sure to put the tray and any connector/cable back in the laptop! Send via ground - US Post Office Flat-Rate-Box Prority Mail [$8.75], UPS Brown or FEDEX Green ground- to 3227 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95407. We will send a check to reimburse the shipping cost (Please tell us if you would like to donate the shipping cost) and a receipt for your laptop. Include your return address and the receipt for shipping cost. If it is a newer WORKING laptop, we are happy to pay the additional shipping charges if you over-pack it! We will also accept loose internal laptop parts and power supplies.
Older laptops (P2, P1, 486, 386, 286) may be sent for environmental recycling and we will send a receipt for the laptop and shipping fees (no reimbursement).
Reuse Programs - CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) working with Foster Youth and Families can request a laptop, and, Human Services Agencies working with Disabled Home Bound Elderly, can request a desktop computer for a client. Please send your request on letterhead to CRC Computer Repair Center, 3227 Santa Rosa Ave.Unit C, Santa Rosa, CA 95407 (do not send any money). Deliveries are on an ongoing basis and you will be required to pay for the shipping costs.
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AWARDS
Winner CA Recycling "Wrap" Award
Winner "Best of the Bay Area" Computer Recycling.
Winner of an Environmental Award from U.S. Congressman Mike Thompson
