Residential · Port St. Lucie & Treasure Coast
Electronic Disposal.
Old TVs, dead computers, the stack of monitors in the spare room. Electronics don't belong in a household cart, and the county will take them off you free — so here's the honest version of when you need us and when you don't.
What electronic disposal includes
- TVs — flat screens and old CRT sets
- Desktops, laptops, monitors & printers
- Servers, networking gear & cabling
- Stereo equipment, DVD players & game consoles
- Office e-waste in volume
- Batteries routed to the county's hazardous waste drop-off
- Everything taken to the county electronics program
How e-waste disposal works here
St. Lucie County accepts electronics for recycling at no charge at the Solid Waste Baling & Recycling Facility, 6120 Glades Cut-Off Road in Fort Pierce. If you've got one TV and a pickup truck, that's your cheapest option and we'd rather you knew it.
Where we earn our price is volume, access and time. An office replacing thirty monitors, a rental full of a previous tenant's electronics, a CRT television nobody can lift down a flight of stairs, or a Saturday you'd rather not spend at the landfill.
Old CRT televisions and monitors are the ones people underestimate. A 32-inch tube TV runs well over a hundred pounds and the glass is leaded — it's a two-person carry and it can't go in a regular cart.
Wipe your drives first. We haul equipment; we're not a certified data destruction service and we won't pretend to be. If a machine holds anything sensitive, pull the drive or wipe it before we arrive.
Batteries
The one that starts fires
Rechargeable lithium batteries
St. Lucie County specifically warns that rechargeable lithium batteries can start fires when they go in a trash or recycling cart, and the county takes them free at the hazardous waste drop-off area.
That covers phone and laptop batteries, cordless tool packs, e-bike and scooter batteries, and the swollen one in the drawer you've been meaning to deal with.
If it's swollen or damaged, don't put it in a bag with anything else. Set it aside somewhere non-flammable and tell us when we arrive.
Regular alkaline batteries
Single-use alkaline AAs and AAAs are a different story. The county states these aren't classed as hazardous and can go in regular household garbage.
So no, you don't need to save a jar of dead AAs for a special trip. That one surprises people.
When in doubt the county's solid waste line is (772) 462-1768 and they'll tell you straight.
Local notes
Businesses and volume
Commercial e-waste is different
The county's household hazardous waste program is for residents. Businesses generating commercial hazardous waste are directed to use a licensed handler instead.
For straightforward office electronics — monitors, towers, printers, phones — we'll clear them out and route them properly. If your operation generates something regulated, that needs a specialist and we'll say so.
Scheduling around the scale house
The facility runs Monday to Friday 7am to 5pm and Saturday 8am to 1pm, closed Sunday.
For an office clear-out that matters more than it sounds. We'd rather start you in the morning and get the load off the truck the same day than have it sit over a weekend.
After-hours and weekend pickups are available for businesses — we just plan the disposal run around those hours.
Pricing
Electronic disposal pricing
Your price is based on how much space your junk takes up in the truck — measured on site, agreed before we lift a thing. For scale, Wetland Junk Removal counts a cubic yard as about one front-load washer — so a full truck is roughly fifteen of them.
¼ Load
$225
- A few furniture pieces
- Small appliance pickup
- Garage corner cleanup
½ Load
$400
- Room's worth of junk
- Multiple large items
- Small shed clear-out
¾ Load
$550
- Multi-room cleanup
- Large furniture sets
- Big yard-debris jobs
Full Load
$650
about 15 cubic yards
- Whole-garage cleanout
- Moving leftovers
- Best per-item value
A full load is about 15 cubic yards — roughly six pickup truck loads. A single TV or a couple of towers falls under our single-item rate, starting at $150. Office volumes are priced by load. If it's one small item and you can drive it to Glades Cut-Off yourself, do that — the county takes it free.
Where
Electronic Disposal across the Treasure Coast
FAQ
Electronics and e-waste questions
Should I wipe my computer before you take it?
Yes, and please do not skip this. We do not wipe drives and you should not trust any hauler who says they will. Pull the hard drive out if you can, or run a factory reset and a secure erase first. A machine that is going to recycling still has whatever was on it when it left your desk.
Is there a fee for TVs and monitors?
Not a separate one from us — electronics ride at the normal single-item or load price. Worth knowing that St. Lucie County takes household electronics free at its facility on Glades Cut-Off Road, so if you have one TV, a truck and a spare morning, doing it yourself is genuinely cheaper. We are the better answer when it is a pile, or when you are not making that drive.
What about batteries?
Depends which kind. St. Lucie County warns that rechargeable lithium batteries start fires in trash and recycling carts, and takes them free at the household hazardous waste drop-off. Plain alkaline AA and AAA cells can go in normal household garbage per the county. If you have a bin of mixed batteries, keep them out of the load and flag them.
Is business e-waste handled the same way?
No, and this catches people out. The county’s household hazardous waste program is for residents, not companies. A business generating commercial hazardous waste is directed to use a licensed handler instead. If you are clearing an office, say so up front so it gets routed correctly rather than turned away at the gate.
Ready to get it gone?
Free quotes. Upfront prices. Handled properly.