Recycling
Not every old device is worth money. A dead tablet from 2013, a drawer of tangled chargers, a laptop with a snapped screen and no market left. We take those too, free, erase anything with storage in it, and pass the rest to a certified recycler instead of letting it go to landfill.
How it works
No appointment, no form, no minimum. Walk in during opening hours with whatever you have.
Plenty of things people assume are junk turn out to be worth money. If yours is, we'll tell you and make an offer instead.
Anything with storage gets wiped before it leaves the counter. Drives that can't be erased get destroyed.
What can be reused is harvested for parts. The rest goes to a certified electronics recycler, not the trash.
What we take
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Phones & tablets | Any age, any condition, including smashed, water damaged and dead units |
| Computers | Laptops, desktops, all-in-ones, Chromebooks, mini PCs, servers |
| Monitors & displays | Flat-panel monitors, portable screens, digital photo frames |
| Components | Hard drives, SSDs, RAM, graphics cards, motherboards, power supplies |
| Cables & power | Chargers, laptop bricks, USB cables, docks, hubs, surge strips |
| Audio & wearables | Headphones, earbuds, speakers, smartwatches, fitness bands |
| Gaming | Consoles, controllers, handhelds, VR headsets, accessories |
| Cameras & drones | Bodies, lenses, action cameras, drones, gimbals |
| Networking & office | Routers, switches, access points, printers that fit through the door |
| Marine & vehicle electronics | Chartplotters, fishfinders, VHF radios, head units, amplifiers |
What we can't take
Not because we're difficult — these need handlers with permits we don't have, and some of them are genuinely dangerous to store.
The old deep glass kind. They contain leaded glass and need a specialist handler. Miami-Dade runs household drop-off events for these.
We're a small shop and we don't have the volume or the storage to handle TVs responsibly.
A battery still inside its device is fine. A loose, swollen, punctured or leaking lithium cell is a fire risk and we can't accept it over the counter.
Fridges, washers, microwaves, air conditioners, anything with a compressor or a refrigerant line.
Fluorescent tubes contain mercury and some smoke detectors contain a radioactive source. Both need specialist disposal.
A fire-damaged or flood-soaked unit is a health risk to handle. Call us first and we'll point you somewhere that can take it.
Why it matters
The greenest thing that can happen to a working device is that someone else uses it for another three years. That's most of what we do: test it, fix what's cheap to fix, and put it back into service. Recycling is what happens when reuse isn't possible, not the first resort.
Circuit boards, screens and batteries contain lead, mercury, cadmium and other materials that shouldn't end up in a landfill in South Florida or anywhere else. They also contain copper, aluminium, gold and rare earths that are worth recovering rather than mining again.
Most waste-facility fires start with a lithium battery that was thrown in with the regular trash and then crushed. Bringing an old phone here instead of binning it genuinely removes a fire risk from the waste stream.
Recycling without erasing is how people's photos and documents end up on a secondhand drive. Everything with storage is erased at our counter before it goes anywhere, including the things we're recycling rather than reselling.
Questions
Nothing. No drop-off fee, no per-item charge, no requirement to sell or buy anything.
Yes. Cables, chargers and adapters are some of the most common things people bring, and they recycle well.
We'll tell you and offer to buy it. We're not going to take a valuable device off you as scrap.
Yes, anything with storage is erased before it leaves the counter, and a drive that can't be erased is physically destroyed. Wipe it yourself first if you can — that's always the safest route.
Not over the counter, but we handle business volumes through our business service, including free pickup in Miami-Dade and Broward and a certificate of data destruction.
1879 W Flagler St, Miami, FL 33135. Monday to Friday 9am to 7pm, Saturday 10am to 2pm, closed Sunday. Map on the contact page.
