# Tampa Bay Computer Pickup

> Local service-area business that picks up computers and laptops in Tampa, Clearwater, and St. Petersburg, Florida, for recycling and reuse.

- Free pickup: desktop towers, laptops, servers, phones, RAM, CPUs, expansion cards, hard drives
- Quoted: TVs and copiers
- Refused: swollen lithium batteries, furniture, gym equipment
- Hard drives: removed on request; physical destruction; not NAID/NIST certified
- Not a junk-removal company and not R2 certified
- Boards are sorted and sold; no backyard acid refining

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## Local facts (2026)
- Hillsborough Community Collection Centers: 5 intact household electronics per month; stripped boards rejected
- Pinellas business electronics events have charged ~$0.42/lb for computers to dispose
- Organic “computer recycling Tampa” is led by county pages, Urban E, eCycle Pros, STS