IT Equipment Recycling & Computer Donation in Tempe, AZ
Techbros Cares provides free scheduled electronics recycling and computer donation pickup for Tempe, Arizona businesses. Offices, labs, schools and nonprofits get certified data destruction, serialized reporting and refurbishment of working devices for East Valley students.
Businesses, schools and nonprofits only — we do not accept residential or in-home collection, and we cannot take household electronics from Tempe residents. We serve offices, data centers, clinics and warehouses. Free scheduled pickup starts at 10 devices or one pallet; smaller commercial batches go to our appointment drop-off.
Tempe pickups by appointment so we can log your assets on arrival.
Where we collect in Tempe
Tempe packs an unusual amount of technology into a small footprint, and our routes reflect that: the Marina Heights and Tempe Town Lake campuses, the Rio Salado corridor, Discovery Business Campus, ASU Research Park tenants, and the light-industrial park along Elliot Road. Shared-tenant towers are routine for us, so we coordinate dock reservations, freight elevators and building security in advance rather than on the morning of the pickup.
What a Tempe pickup includes
We collect laptops, desktops, monitors, tablets, phones, servers, network gear, UPS units, lab and test equipment, printers and cabling. Startups and research groups often have a mix of leased, owned and prototype hardware; we separate it on arrival, record serials for anything needing a report, and quarantine data-bearing media until it is wiped or shredded. CRT televisions, appliances, bulbs and loose alkaline batteries are outside our scope.
Tempe drives, lab hardware and mobile devices we process
Rio Salado and ASU Research Park loads arrive as a mix: engineering workstations with NVMe drives, benchtop and test instruments, single-board prototypes, Chromebook carts from charter schools, iPads and company cell phones, rack servers and switches from a lab closet, and battery-powered field gear. Lithium batteries are removed, taped and packed separately for licensed downstream handling; drives and phones are wiped to NIST 800-88 or shredded and reported by serial. Test equipment that still calibrates is remarketed and the recovery credited back on your settlement report. Non-working monitors, docking stations and cabling are broken to commodity streams — glass, boards, aluminum, copper — with zero landfill.
Certified data destruction for research and startup teams
Every drive is sanitized to NIST 800-88 under R2v3 and NAID AAA certification, with a documented chain of custody from your suite to our processing floor and a serialized Certificate of Destruction issued afterward. If your grant, client contract or investor diligence requires destruction witnessed on site, we bring the shredder to your Tempe address and hand you the serial log before we leave.
Feeding devices back into the East Valley
Refurbished laptops from Tempe pickups go to nearby districts, after-school STEM programs and nonprofit partners, which means a two-year-old fleet retired from a Tempe office frequently ends up in the hands of a student in the same ZIP code. You receive an impact summary showing device counts, refurbishment outcomes and recycled weight — the documentation CSR and sustainability reporting actually needs.
Tempe areas on our route
Tempe is about 20–25 minutes from our Scottsdale plant, so same-week windows are normal and an urgent lab or server-closet clearout can often be added to an existing route day. Every Tempe ZIP we serve sits inside our 50-mile radius.
Under 10 devices — a drawer of old cell phones, a couple of laptops, a few loose drives? Route it to our appointment business drop-off in Scottsdale instead of holding it until there is enough for a truck. Business locations only — we do not collect household electronics from Tempe homes.
Tempe Pickup Questions
Book a Tempe Pickup
Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM (MST). Send your company, city, device count and preferred date and we confirm a window.