# Electronics & E-Waste Recycling in Santa Monica URL: https://thejunkiez.com/services/electronics-recycling/santa-monica/ Summary: TVs, monitors, computers and e-waste collected and taken to a California-approved recycler, with data-bearing drives handled securely. Available same day in Santa Monica. Service: Electronics & E-Waste Recycling Starting price: $79 Pricing: A TV or a few devices runs $79–$129. Office decommissions are quoted by volume. Area served: Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California Neighbourhoods: Ocean Park, Sunset Park, Wilshire-Montana, Mid-City, North of Montana, Pico District ZIP codes: 90401, 90402, 90403, 90404, 90405 Contact: 323-547-5879 — info@thejunkiez.com Last updated: 2026-08-28 The Junkiez provides same-day electronics & e-waste recycling in Santa Monica. TVs, monitors, computers and e-waste collected and taken to a California-approved recycler, with data-bearing drives handled securely. Electronic waste is classified as hazardous waste in California. It is illegal to put a television or monitor in your household bin, and the CRT tubes in older sets contain several pounds of leaded glass each. We are set up to collect e-waste in volume and deliver it to an approved collection and recycling facility, which matters more than it sounds if you are an office clearing out forty workstations. ### Electronics in Santa Monica Santa Monica runs on rent-controlled apartment stock built between the 1920s and the 1970s, and that shapes almost every job here. Units turn over, tenants leave furniture behind, and buildings have narrow stairwells, no service elevator, and alley access that is frequently blocked by the neighbouring building’s bins. Owners and property managers are our most common callers. Santa Monica runs its own Resource Recovery and Recycling operation rather than contracting out, and street parking enforcement here is genuinely strict — we plan for permit zones and metered loading rather than gambling on a citation. For Ocean Park and the streets south of Pico, alley access is usually faster than the street frontage, and we will ask which you have. ### What we take - Televisions — flat screen, plasma, projection and CRT - Computer monitors, desktops, laptops and tablets - Printers, scanners, copiers and fax machines - Servers, switches, routers and networking gear - Stereo equipment, speakers and receivers - Game consoles, DVD players and set-top boxes - Phones, cables, keyboards and peripherals - UPS units and batteries ### It is hazardous waste, legally speaking Under California’s Electronic Waste Recycling Act, CRTs and most display devices are universal waste and cannot go to landfill. You already paid an eWaste recycling fee when you bought the device. We deliver to an approved facility so the leaded glass, mercury backlights and circuit-board metals are handled under that programme rather than crushed into a landfill cell. ### Getting a price in Santa Monica We quote free on site, before anything is loaded, and the number does not change afterwards. Our rates are the same everywhere we work — there is no Santa Monica surcharge, and stairs, long carries and disassembly are all included. We cover all of Santa Monica, including Ocean Park, Sunset Park, Wilshire-Montana, Mid-City, North of Montana and Pico District. ## Frequently asked questions **Can I throw a TV in the trash in California?** No. Televisions and monitors are classified as universal hazardous waste and are banned from household disposal. **What happens to my data?** We can remove drives on site and hand them to you, or route equipment to a recycler that issues a certificate of data destruction. **Do you take old CRT televisions?** Yes. Those are the ones most haulers refuse, because of the leaded glass. We take them.