E-waste pickup in La Jolla
Where to take your e-waste in La Jolla
For e-waste pickup in La Jolla, 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 13 minutes from La Jolla. Electronics are free to drop off and you don't need an appointment.
Where to go
Nearest recycling center and drop-off to La Jolla
Our main recycling center for La Jolla is Point Loma, about 13 minutes away. The closest drop-off site is Kearny Mesa, about 13 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 La Jolla
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 La Jolla
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 La Jolla
Besides drop-off and pickup, these services cover homes and businesses in La Jolla.
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 La Jolla
Our free e-waste pickup covers La Jolla 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 La Jolla
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
La Jolla
About La Jolla
About 12 miles north of downtown, La Jolla covers roughly 7 miles of Pacific coastline in the City of San Diego. Pacific Beach borders it on the south, and to the north it takes in Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve. The City uses Gilman Drive and Interstate 5 as its eastern line. The area has been part of San Diego since California became a state in 1850.
The Kumeyaay name for the place, mat kulaaxuuy, means "land of holes," possibly for its sea caves. Ellen Browning Scripps settled here in 1896. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, founded in 1903, moved to its La Jolla site in 1905 and joined the University of California in 1912. UC San Diego enrolled its first undergraduates in 1964, the same year the Marine Corps closed Camp Matthews. The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is also in La Jolla.
La Jolla Cove is the area's most visited spot, and Children's Pool Beach is another well-known stretch of shore. Mount Soledad rises 822 feet with a large cross at the top. Four Blue Line trolley stations in the area opened on November 21, 2021, including UC San Diego Central Campus and Nobel Drive.
Nearby areas
Areas near La Jolla
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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