Can I put an old TV out for bulk pickup in Fort Worth?

No. Electronics are on the exclusion list for Fort Worth’s monthly curbside bulk. A household with a city solid waste account can take it to a Drop-Off Station instead, within the limit of two computers or televisions every six months.

Will the Environmental Collection Center take a computer?

No. The center takes household chemicals and lists appliances and electronics among the items it does not accept.

Can my business use a Drop-Off Station for old electronics?

No. The stations are for Fort Worth residents with a city solid waste account; commercial businesses cannot use them.

Do you wipe hard drives?

No. We are not a data destruction service. Wipe or remove drives before the equipment goes, or use a certified destruction provider.

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Where to Recycle Electronics and Old TVs in Fort Worth

Fort Worth households with a city solid waste account can take electronics to a city Drop-Off Station, with computers and televisions limited to two every six months. Curbside bulk excludes electronics, and the hazardous waste center on Bridge Street does not take them. Before anything with a drive in it leaves the house, wipe the drive or take it out.

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Fort Worth: the Drop-Off Stations

The city’s four Drop-Off Stations accept electronics from households with a city solid waste account, with computers and televisions limited to two every six months. The city’s Drop-Off Station page lists the proof of residence each type of waste needs; bring it, and the account holder.

The other city routes will not help. Electronics are on the exclusion list for monthly curbside bulk, and Fort Worth’s Environmental Collection Center, which takes household chemicals, lists appliances and electronics among the things it does not accept.

Businesses are a separate case. The Drop-Off Stations are for Fort Worth residents only — commercial businesses cannot use them — so office electronics need a commercial recycler or a hauler.

Electronics, city by city

Each city’s published routes as of November 2026. Event dates change, so check before you load the car.

City	Where electronics go
Fort Worth	Drop-Off Stations, for solid waste account holders: computers and televisions limited to two every six months. Not in curbside bulk.
Keller	Community Waste Disposal’s door-side collection takes used electronics along with household hazardous waste, up to once a month. Call CWD ahead and it mails a collection kit.
Burleson	The city’s own household hazardous waste events have taken electronics at no fee, for residents inside city limits. Check for the next date.
Benbrook	Free e-waste events for residents, with proof of Benbrook residency. Check for the next date.
Haltom City	The city points residents to DFW Reclaimers, whose free pickup needs at least one PC or laptop in the load.

Manufacturer take-back

Texas law also puts the manufacturers to work. A computer maker selling in Texas must offer consumers a reasonably convenient way to recycle its own-brand desktops, laptops and monitors without paying a separate fee at the time of recycling.

Televisions work differently. TV makers must run collection programs sized to their market share, either under their own recovery plan or through a program with at least 200 collection sites in Texas — but a maker that has met its share for the year does not have to collect more, so check before you go. The state lists participating manufacturers, with links to their programs, at TexasRecyclesComputers.org and TexasRecyclesTVs.org.

Texas has no statewide law against putting electronics in the trash. The routes above keep them out of the landfill all the same, and the state’s environmental agency advises against throwing rechargeable batteries — the kind in laptops and phones — in the trash.

Before electronics leave the house

The device goes; the data should not go with it.

1
Back up what you want to keep
Photos, documents and anything else you will miss, copied somewhere you control.
2
Sign out and unlink
Remove the device from your accounts and turn off any lock tied to them, so the next owner or recycler is not locked out.
3
Wipe or remove the drive
NIST’s media sanitization guideline, SP 800-88 Revision 2, sorts the options into clear, purge and destroy — from defeating simple recovery to physically ending the drive. At home the simple safe options are to take the drive out and keep it, or to reset the device before it goes.
4
Count the screens
Two computers or televisions per household every six months at a Fort Worth station.
5
Keep chargers and cables with the device
They go to the same place, and loose cables are easy to forget in a drawer.

What a junk crew does, and does not, do with electronics

A crew carries out the television, the old desktop tower, the printer and the box of cables, and routes them to an appropriate facility rather than a general load.

What it does not do is destroy data. We are not a data destruction service: drives should be wiped, removed or certified-destroyed before equipment leaves your home or office. For a business with records duties, that step belongs to a certified destruction provider.