E-waste pickup in City Heights
Where to take your e-waste in City Heights
For e-waste pickup in City Heights, the closest Dream E-Waste recycling center is Point Loma recycling center at 4009 Hicock St STE D, San Diego, CA 92110, about 13 minutes away. For electronics and small appliances, our Kearny Mesa drop-off site is about 12 minutes from City Heights. Electronics are free to drop off and you don't need an appointment.
Where to go
Nearest recycling center and drop-off to City Heights
Our main recycling center for City Heights is Point Loma, about 13 minutes away. The closest drop-off site is Kearny Mesa, about 12 minutes away, for electronics and small appliances. Check in at the Associated Storage office when you arrive.
Hours and items for every site are on our San Diego e-waste drop-off locations page.
Accepted items
What you can bring for e-waste pickup in City Heights
Point Loma and Chula Vista take everything shown here. San Marcos takes electronics, batteries and microwaves, and Miramar, Kearny Mesa and Oceanside take electronics and small appliances. A few items carry a small fee, listed on each item page.
Rack and tower servers, workstations, storage arrays and other business hardware.
Cell phones, tablets, cameras, game consoles, stereos and other home electronics.
Keyboards, mice, webcams, speakers, headsets, docks and other computer accessories.
Hard drives, SSDs, USB sticks, backup tapes, CDs and DVDs. Every drive is destroyed by default.
Microscopes, lab scales, centrifuges and patient monitors, clean and free of medical waste.
Control panels, motors, pumps and other electrical equipment. Email photos of large items first.
Appliances, scrap metal and more
Washers, dryers, stoves, refrigerators, freezers, mini fridges, dish antennas and lawnmowers.
Microwaves, vacuums, toasters, air fryers, coffee makers and other small kitchen appliances.
Server racks, computer cases, shelving, frames and other metal, sorted from wood and drywall.
Rechargeable, lithium-ion, power tool and single-use batteries. Tape the ends of lithium batteries.
How it works
How e-waste drop-off works from City Heights
Step 1
Pick your site
First, choose Point Loma for everything we take, or the Kearny Mesa drop-off for electronics and small appliances.
Step 2
Drive up, no appointment
Then drive up during opening hours. At Kearny Mesa, check in at the storage office first.
Step 3
Unload with our team
After that, our team helps unload. Tell them what you brought and if anything holds data you care about.
Step 4
Data destroyed, items recycled
Finally, every drive is wiped and physically destroyed by default, and everything is recycled through our Point Loma and Chula Vista processing sites.
Services
Business and data services in City Heights
Besides drop-off and pickup, these services cover homes and businesses in City Heights.
Six sites across San Diego County with no appointment. Electronics are free to drop off.
Five or more computers, laptops, monitors, servers, printers or TVs? We collect them free anywhere in San Diego County.
Residential Electronics Recycling
Household TVs, computers, phones and small electronics, dropped off or picked up from your home.
Business Electronics Recycling
Office clean-outs, IT refreshes and server rooms, with certified data destruction and recycling records.
Pickups for apartments, HOAs and commercial properties, including move-out clean-outs and bulk items.
Tracked, documented retirement of company IT, from inventory to data destruction and recycling.
Servers, storage and networking removed with a documented chain of custody and NIST 800-88 data destruction.
Recover value from retired IT through evaluation, buyback and resale, with certified recycling for the rest.
Drives are crushed or shredded by default, with witnessed destruction and a Certificate of Destruction on request.
On-Site Hard Drive Destruction
We destroy drives at your office, so the data never leaves your building.
Electronics processed under the R2v3 standard at our certified Point Loma facility.
Free community collection events with schools, businesses and neighborhood groups.
Pickup
Free e-waste pickup in City Heights
Our free e-waste pickup covers City Heights when you have five or more computing devices, such as computers, laptops, monitors, servers, printers or TVs. Smaller items like vacuums, CDs and cables don't count toward the five, but we take them with the rest of the load. Book online or call (619) 889-1305.
For an office clean-out, see business electronics recycling. For drives that must be destroyed at your site, see on-site hard drive destruction.
Certified and registered
Certified e-waste recycling for City Heights
Our Point Loma facility holds the R2v3 certification (Perry Johnson Registrars, valid to January 2029), and we're registered with CalRecycle and California DTSC. Our U.S. EPA ID is CAL000484577. Details and certificates are on our certifications.
R2v3 certified, Point Loma facility (C2026-00214)
CalRecycle approved collector and recycler, CEWID 127772
California DTSC facility ID 36681
RIOS certified recycler, ID 10240807
City Heights
About City Heights
City Heights is a dense community in central San Diego, south of Mission Valley and northeast of Balboa Park. Interstate 805 forms its western edge and El Cajon Boulevard its northern one, with 54th Street on the east. Fairmount Avenue splits it into City Heights East and City Heights West.
In the 1880s Abraham Klauber and Samuel Steiner bought over 240 acres and named the area City Heights. Voters incorporated it as the separate city of East San Diego on November 2, 1912, then approved annexation to San Diego on December 31, 1923, and the City Heights name returned. Caltrans built State Route 15 through the community in the 1990s. Centerline stations on that freeway at El Cajon Boulevard and University Avenue opened in 2018 for Rapid 235 buses.
Large Vietnamese, Somali, Cambodian, Laotian and Latino communities live here. The city approved the Little Saigon Cultural and Commercial District along six blocks of El Cajon Boulevard on June 4, 2013. University Avenue, Fairmount Avenue and Euclid Avenue are other main commercial streets. Azalea Community Park includes the Water Conservation Garden, and at least seven canyons had hiking trails as of 2017.
Nearby areas
Areas near City Heights
Local reviews
Reviews of our Point Loma recycling center
Carmen Curry Fantastic, free e-waste recycling in central SD. Workers are always super friendly. Getting in & out of there is hard in a car though.
Edit: just dropped off something and was informed California now requires a small fee ($1-$10) to recycle items. $1 for anything over 3lbs (averaging about $3 for most items) $10 for the largest item: fridges. TVs are still free. Still a very small fee for recycling the items that shouldn’t/can’t go in the landfill. Love having Dream E-Waste local to me. Staff is always pleasant and helpful. Thanks again Dream!
J D Friendly staff. Quick and easy.
Elizabeth Siegler Excellent service! So helpful and convenient, easy!!
Habeas Corpus Awesome place
Tim Boggs Only good things to say about them. They were super friendly and helpful. Kudos to the staff. Only thing I had to pay for was for a big can of old batteries. It was $2 so I’m not mad at all. I’ll be coming back for sure.
Mascha S Very friendly and easy
Rodney Wilson So easy and reps are incredibly friendly
Iri Vaz Helpful and super nice.
Kevin Weiser Easy to drop off, friendly staff. Very convenient! Corey helped me out and was awesome.
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