Computer Recycling in Millbrae

About one mile. Our EcoCenter at 1831 Old Bayshore Hwy, Suite 2, Burlingame is the closest certified electronics recycler to Millbrae by a significant margin — a few minutes by car, or a manageable distance on foot or by bike from central Millbrae. For most Bay Area cities, getting to us means a 20- to 45-minute drive. For Millbrae residents, it's a short errand.

Head toward Millbrae Blvd and follow it to Old Bayshore Highway. Turn right onto Old Bayshore, then right onto Cowan Road. Take the first driveway on your left — we're behind the building at 1831 Old Bayshore Hwy, directly across from New England Lobster Market and Eatery. There's no freeway involved. It's a local surface-street drive.

Yes — Millbrae is one of the few cities in the Bay Area where this is practical. The Millbrae BART and Caltrain station is roughly a mile from the EcoCenter. From the station, it's a walkable distance depending on what you're carrying, or a short rideshare ride. For residents recycling a laptop or a small bag of cables, arriving by transit is entirely reasonable.

GreenCitizen was founded in 2005 and has operated in the Burlingame area — Millbrae's immediate neighbor — across three locations: 801 Mahler Road, then 1576 Rollins Road, and now 1831 Old Bayshore Hwy. Over that time, we've recycled over 97,000 pounds of electronics from Millbrae customers specifically. For many Millbrae residents and businesses, we've been the default local recycler for years.

Yes. GreenCitizen provides scheduled electronics recycling pickup for qualifying Millbrae businesses. Pickup is available for businesses only — we do not offer residential pickup. Most pickups are confirmed within four hours to one business day of submitting the request form.

Hotels, airport-adjacent businesses, and retail operations generate a steady cycle of device turnover — point-of-sale terminals, guest-room televisions, office laptops, networking equipment, and kitchen appliances. We handle all of these. Hospitality businesses also tend to have specific documentation needs around asset disposal, particularly when decommissioning shared devices that have stored customer or operational data. Our data destruction services and certified reporting are built to support that.

Electronics are among the most regulated and environmentally consequential items in any waste stream — California's Electronic Waste Recycling Act designates covered devices like monitors, laptops, and TVs as a separate, tracked category precisely because of their hazardous materials content. When Millbrae businesses and residents route those devices through certified recyclers like GreenCitizen rather than general waste, it directly supports both the city's diversion metrics and compliance with state law.

No. Drop-offs are walk-in during our regular hours of Monday through Friday, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Our team comes out to your vehicle to handle intake — most drop-offs wrap up in under 10 minutes. If you're recycling a computer or television, completing the online drop-off form before you arrive speeds up check-in.

Laptops, desktop computers, servers, monitors, TVs, tablets, smartphones, and networking equipment are all free. Items like printers, keyboards, cables, fax machines, scanners, remote controls, and small kitchen appliances cost $1.00 per pound. Older media formats — CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, cassettes, vinyl records, floppy disks, DLT/LTO tapes, 35mm slides, and film negatives — are $6.00 per pound due to the certified destruction process they require.

The pickup fee is waived when your inventory includes at least 5 qualifying items in total — any combination of laptops, desktops, servers, enterprise networking equipment (switches and routers), or LCD/LED monitors. Loads consisting primarily of non-qualifying items like printers, cables, or kitchen appliances can still be scheduled, but a standard logistics fee will apply.

Yes. Building-wide and multi-unit pickups are available for commercial properties. For large-scale decommissions — full floors of guest-room equipment, kitchen appliances, or an IT refresh across a managed property — contact us directly to discuss logistics. We can also provide a Certificate of Insurance if your property management requires one before vendor access.

Software-based data erasure for functional drives is $5 per device, following DoD 5220.22-M and NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1 standards. Physical hard drive destruction — shredding or crushing — is $20 per drive. A Certificate of Destruction is available for $5 per unit. If a drive cannot be erased to the required security standard, it is upgraded to physical destruction at no additional charge. Every major item collected is also logged in GTAMS, providing a chain-of-custody record from collection through final processing.

Yes. Physical destruction for mobile devices is $35 per device. Contact us before scheduling to confirm eligibility for specific device types.

Yes — MacBooks, iMacs, iPads, and other Apple products are welcome. Before recycling any Apple device, please remove all Apple ID, iCloud, EFI, Device Enrollment Program (DEP), and Remote Management locks.

Everything is processed through R2 and e-Stewards certified facilities in the United States. Nothing is exported, incinerated, or landfilled. For a city with some of the most specific waste diversion targets in San Mateo County and mandatory organics recycling for businesses already on the books, that domestic processing standard is exactly the kind of verifiable commitment that backs up the numbers.