For years now, the Hillsborough County Solid Waste department (Tampa FL) has provided a place to drop off household hazardous waste, including old electronic equipment, batteries, and chemicals. I have used their service on a regular basis, and encourage people to find a similar solution in their local community.

I also did a post earlier this year on a company (Urban e Recycling) that will come to your business or residence for free to pick up and recycle old computer equipment.

I recently had the need to call on them. This time they came out to my house to remove and recycle a pile of old computer towers, monitors, battery backups, boxes and boxes of old cables, and destroy about a dozen disk drives for me.

Last Saturday (4/25/2015) a local Tampa company, Urban eRecycling, was scheduled to have their truck at a shopping center for an event to encourage people to recycle their old computers and equipment, for free!

I had the opportunity to talk with them beforehand, and ended up taking several loads of old computers, monitors, disk drives and accessories to be recycled. They can demagnitize or crush hard drives, and can provide a Destruction of Data Certificate.

They will do free pickups at your business or residence.