Electronic recycling in San Ysidro
Where to take your e-waste in San Ysidro
For electronic recycling in San Ysidro, the closest Dream E-Waste recycling center is Chula Vista recycling center at 819 Anita St, Chula Vista, CA 91911, about 8 minutes away. For electronics and small appliances, our Kearny Mesa drop-off site is about 27 minutes from San Ysidro. Electronics are free to drop off and you don't need an appointment.
Where to go
Nearest recycling center and drop-off to San Ysidro
Our main recycling center for San Ysidro is Chula Vista, about 8 minutes away. The closest drop-off site is Kearny Mesa, about 27 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 electronic recycling in San Ysidro
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 electronic recycling in San Ysidro works
Step 1
Pick your site
First, choose Chula Vista 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 San Ysidro
Besides drop-off and pickup, these services cover homes and businesses in San Ysidro.
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 San Ysidro
Our free e-waste pickup covers San Ysidro 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 electronic recycling in San Ysidro
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
San Ysidro
About San Ysidro
San Ysidro is the City of San Diego district directly north of the Mexico-United States border. Otay Mesa West is to its north, Otay Mesa to the east, and Nestor and the Tijuana River Valley to the west. Interstate 5, Interstate 805 and State Route 905 all pass through, and San Ysidro Boulevard and Beyer Boulevard are its main streets.
Mexico granted Rancho Tía Juana to Santiago Argüello Moraga in 1829. The first customs building went up in 1873. In 1908 William Ellsworth Smythe founded the Little Landers farming colony, and the community took the name San Ysidro. A flood in 1916 wiped out the farms. San Diego annexed San Ysidro in 1957.
The San Ysidro Port of Entry is the busiest land crossing in the Western Hemisphere. More than 15 million vehicles and 36.7 million people entered the United States there in 2019. Trucks must use the Otay Mesa Port of Entry instead. An expansion of the crossing was completed in 2019. The Old Customs House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the Blue Line of the San Diego Trolley runs to the border.
Nearby areas
Areas near San Ysidro
Local reviews
Reviews of our Chula Vista recycling center
4mrbigcbro Drive in to drop off any electronics recycling equipment, workers there are very courteous and helpful people.
David Wilkins Very friendly service
Michael Fitzsimmons They took everything. Guys very helpful.
Michael Fahouris Great place to drop off all your gear today. They took my metal my TV my air conditioner and household batteries one stop does it all great place
Dave Martocchio Very nice people. They take almost everything! Cory is the best.
Katie Chester Great customer service and so easy to drop items! Thank you!!
Sean Brew Quick and east, fast and friendly
Jill Bormann This place is amazing! Extremely friendly employees, particularly Corey! And they take most anything, including our window, air conditioner, and an old microwave oven. You can drive real close by and people come out and help you unload. And it’s all free. Unbelievably easy. I highly recommend them.
Jordan A Awesome service here! Shoutout to Corey
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