Asheville e-waste pickup, done right.

Individuals pay a flat $99 for pickups within 10 miles of Asheville, regardless of load size. Businesses with 25 or more items get free pickup. Outside our radius, drop-off is always free at our Asheville location.

Yes — every device with storage gets its data destroyed to NIST 800-88 standards before leaving our facility. Working drives are sanitized via cryptographic erase or multi-pass overwrite; drives that can't be sanitized are physically destroyed. Our destruction guarantee is included free for every customer.

Individual customers can purchase per-drive certificates of destruction for $25 each. Businesses receive a free inventory manifest plus a bulk destruction guarantee by default; if you need individualized per-drive certificates for an audit or regulatory compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2, etc.), those are $25 per drive as well.

Basically anything with a circuit board — computers, monitors, phones, networking gear, printers, appliances small and large, power tools, arcade machines, you name it. If you're dropping off, please give us a quick call at (828) 545-0294 first so we know to expect you. For pickups, anything appliance-sized or larger needs to be disclosed on the form so we bring the right vehicle (pickup truck or trailer).

Submit the pickup request form and we'll get in touch within one business day to schedule. Most pickups happen within a week. Need something urgent? Call us directly at (828) 545-0294 and we'll see what we can do.

Our service area is a 10-mile radius from downtown Asheville — that covers Biltmore Forest, Arden, Fletcher, Candler, Weaverville, Black Mountain, Fairview, and most of the surrounding WNC region. Outside that radius, you're welcome to drop off free at our Asheville location, or contact us for an out-of-radius pickup quote.

Screens carry a per-unit disposal fee because of the leaded glass and hazardous components that require EPA-compliant handling: computer monitors are $10 each, TVs 30"–49" are $15 each, TVs 50" or larger are $20 each, and plasmas or CRTs of any size are $20 each. Fees apply to both pickup and drop-off, and are the same for individuals and businesses.

Yes. Plenty of recyclers refuse CRTs and plasmas because of the leaded glass and hazardous components — we take them. All CRTs and plasmas are $20 per unit regardless of size. A single CRT holds 2–8 lbs of lead baked into the funnel glass as radiation shielding, plus cadmium and BFRs — that's why they're banned from NC landfills and need specialized handling.

Yes — and this is the single most important thing. Sign out of your Apple ID (iPhone) or Google account (Android) before you factory-reset the phone or hand it off. If the account is still attached, the phone becomes Activation Locked (Apple) or FRP-locked (Android), which means no one can reset, resell, or reuse it — its reuse value drops to zero and it goes straight to shredding. On iPhone: Settings → [your name] → Sign Out, then Settings → General → Transfer or Reset → Erase All Content and Settings. On Android: Settings → Accounts → Google → Remove Account, then factory reset. If you forget the password, deal with it before wiping — recovery is nearly impossible after the fact.

Scrap Circuit itself is a recycling service, not a resale shop. But our sister shop, Biltmore Computers, buys laptops, desktops, all-in-ones, and high-end phones/tablets that are less than ~3 years old — even with issues we can repair. Give us a call at (828) 545-0294 to set up a free, no-obligation appraisal at 5 Miller Rd South. See the "Sell it instead" section above for details.