Certified School Electronics Recycling for Clearwater Schools & Colleges
Secure school electronics recycling for Clearwater districts and campuses with same-week scheduling. Chain of custody documentation and a Certificate of Destruction are available.
- Student Data Protection Aligned to FERPA
- Pickups Scheduled Around Breaks and Testing
- Free Pickup Across Pinellas County for Qualifying Volumes
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When Should Schools Retire Old Devices?
Schools typically retire devices during winter break, spring break, or summer, when classrooms are empty. District Technology Coordinators cannot take classrooms offline for a pickup, so STS schedules removals around those breaks, testing windows, and summer refresh projects.
STS engagements with K-12 districts typically produce asset reports for superintendent and board review, and serial-level tracking keeps a documented trail from the classroom cart to the final certificate.
Dates set with your team
Before any device moves
Log stays open
Certificate on request
Planning a summer refresh? Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with device counts and preferred dates, and we will confirm a pickup window.
Which break fits your project?
Most school refresh projects land in one of three windows, and each suits a different project size.
Winter Break
A compact window that suits classroom refresh batches. Booking early helps lock in a pickup date before staff and students return.
Spring Break
A practical window for mid-year surplus. Aging laptops, monitors, and printers can be cleared without touching testing weeks.
Summer Break
The longest window for district-wide refresh projects. Several buildings can be phased across multiple pickup days under one running asset log.
What School Devices Can Be Recycled?
Retired school technology is processed with secure data destruction, from student laptop carts to front office copiers.
District Technology Coordinators typically expect detailed certificates of destruction for audit reviews, available in STS service engagements with schools.
Technology Refresh for Clearwater Schools
STS Electronic Recycling provides secure school electronics recycling with documented chain of custody for Clearwater schools and colleges. Operating since 2011 across all 50 states, STS handles scheduled pickup, itemized serial-level records, and certificates of destruction for Pinellas County institutions.
Pickup follows our Clearwater electronics recycling program, so school equipment moves through the same documented chain as every other account. Free pickup applies to qualifying volumes.
Organizations searching for school e-waste disposal near me in Clearwater find scheduled pickup in Largo, Dunedin, Safety Harbor, and throughout Pinellas County.
Classroom and Office Technology
How schools prepare for pickup
Gather by Building
Move retired devices into one secured room per building so loading is quick and logs stay organized.
Share the Counts
Send rough counts by device type, such as laptop carts, boxed monitors, and loose printers.
Flag Special Items
Mention locked, damaged, or leased devices so lease terms and data handling are planned in advance.
Confirm Access
Provide dock hours, elevator access, and a facilities contact so pickup fits school operations.
What every school project includes
Itemized Asset Report
Device types and serial numbers are listed for every item collected, giving you a clear count of what left the building.
Chain of Custody Log
Handoffs are recorded from pickup through final processing, so each asset can be traced if an auditor asks.
Certificate of Destruction
Available on request for devices that held student data, with serial-level detail that supports district record keeping.
How does school electronics recycling work in Clearwater?
STS provides secure processing with free pickup throughout the county for qualifying volumes. Equipment is transported to our 250,000 sq ft processing operation, where NIST 800-88 compliant data sanitization takes place before material recovery.
When evaluating school electronics disposal providers, technology directors and business managers prioritize itemized records, sealed transport, and a clear certificate process. Our secure fleet serves Clearwater with scheduled pickups near US 19 and throughout the Clearwater Beach area.
Running a small school with a few carts? Charter and private schools can bundle carts and office devices into a single scheduled pickup.
Items with storage, including laptops, copiers, and servers, are sanitized or destroyed before recovery. Equipment without storage moves directly to material recovery.
Which Clearwater Schools and Campuses Does STS Serve?
Recycling plans shaped around K-12 buildings, colleges, and technical campuses
K-12 Schools and Districts
Pinellas County Schools serves about 81,000 students across 144 schools, and districts at that scale retire laptop carts in waves. Serial-level records support audit files.
Colleges and Technical Campuses
Campuses like St. Petersburg College's Clearwater Campus, with about 14,000 students, retire lab and staff devices. Larger projects are handled through Clearwater education IT disposal.
Charter and Private Schools
Education organizations often require pickup during non-instructional hours, standard for STS engagements with charter, private, and district schools alike.
What school buyers typically need
Districts at the scale of Pinellas County Schools, with 144 schools and about 81,000 students, coordinate removals across many buildings and bell schedules. Pickup plans are built with each school's facilities contact.
Running a college or technical campus? Lab, library, and staff devices raise both volume and record-keeping needs.
Is Student Data Safe During School Electronics Recycling?
FERPA, 20 U.S.C. §1232g and 34 CFR Part 99, protects personally identifiable information in student education records. It does not prescribe a destruction method, so schools often follow NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2.
STS Electronic Recycling secures student data for schools by sanitizing or physically destroying storage media from teacher laptops, lab drives, copier hard drives, and administrative servers. Each device is logged by serial number, and itemized records support FERPA reviews.
NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 describes sanitization as a process that "renders access to the target data on media infeasible for a given level of effort." STS destruction is aligned to that standard.
NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 Alignment
Clear uses logical techniques, such as overwriting, to sanitize user-addressable storage. Purge applies stronger techniques that make recovery infeasible, even with laboratory methods.
Destroy physically renders media unusable, such as shredding a drive. Each method is matched to the device type and recorded in the project documentation.
NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2
Aligned
DoD 5220.22-M
Supported
FERPA
Aligned
Chain of Custody
Documented
What Clearwater schools ask first
Straight answers about school IT equipment recycling, student data, and scheduling around the academic calendar.
What certifications do you hold?
STS performs NIST 800-88 compliant data destruction for school media, with controls aligned to HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001. We also support DoD 5220.22-M overwrite methods and provide serial-level certificates of destruction for every asset processed.
What areas do you serve?
We provide free pickup throughout Pinellas County for qualifying volumes, including the city and Clearwater Beach. Schools and colleges outside the county can request a quote, because STS serves schools, businesses, and agencies in all 50 states.
Do you provide audit documentation?
Each project includes an itemized asset report with serial numbers and full chain of custody records. A Clearwater certificate of destruction is available on request, giving school business offices a record to file for audits.
Can you schedule around academic calendars?
Many schools schedule removals during winter break, spring break, or summer, and we plan dates around testing windows and staff availability. Same-week pickup is typically available once your team confirms a date, a loading area, and a point of contact.
How do you handle student data under FERPA?
Storage media is sanitized or destroyed before any equipment is recovered, and each device is logged by serial number. Our process is designed to support FERPA compliance, while your district keeps responsibility for its own records and retention policies.
Do you work with school district purchasing?
STS provides itemized asset records and certificates that purchasing teams and business offices can file for surplus and audit reviews. Buyers at campuses like Keiser University's Clearwater Campus typically expect serial-level documentation, and we provide it on every project.
Service Areas & About Clearwater
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About Clearwater
St. Petersburg College, Keiser University, and Pinellas Technical College anchor Clearwater's college and technical education sector, where retired lab and staff devices call for secure, documented disposal.
Clearwater ended its e-waste collection days, and since October 2022 the city and county no longer send electronics to private recyclers. Schools and campuses now need a documented business channel for retired devices.
According to the Global E-waste Monitor 2024, only 22.3% of the 62 million tonnes of e-waste generated worldwide in 2022 was documented as formally collected and recycled.
STS serves Clearwater from our 250,000 sq ft processing operation. Our school, university, and education electronics recycling program supports institutions nationwide.
Where Your Equipment Is Processed
STS Electronic Recycling, Inc. is headquartered in Jacksonville, Texas, and has served schools, businesses, healthcare systems, and government agencies across all 50 states since 2011.
Equipment collected in Clearwater is staged locally and transported to one of our two R2v3 certified processing facilities in Jacksonville, Texas and Houston, Texas, where all data destruction and material recovery takes place.
Collection, transport and processing are staffed by STS crews rather than subcontracted to a third-party carrier, which is why the chain of custody holds from your dock to the certificate.
Ready to Get Started?
Schedule your free pickup for qualifying volumes. Same-week scheduling is available around your school calendar.
Want FERPA planning detail first? Get the Clearwater education IT disposal FERPA guide before you schedule.
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