Secure Data Destruction ‒ Keeping Your Data Safe When it comes to recycling corporate IT assets, secure data destruction is a company’s most pressing concern, especially for those companies safeguarding classified, private or proprietary information. Hard drives are just like file cabinets and
Congress Mulling An e-scrap Export Ban
Congress may look to add new regulations covering e-scrap and the disposal and recycling of used electronics by reintroducing the Responsible Electronics Recycling Act (RERA). Though RERA failed to become law during its last go-round, it sparked an intense debate within the e-scrap recycling
When to Redeploy and When to Dispose of Retired IT Assets
Upgrading IT equipment, cloud migration and consolidation can leave enterprise with a slew of retired IT assets to handle. The choice boils down to disposing and recycling or redeploying. What companies can’t afford to do is stash away their retired IT assets in storage. Doing so not only wastes
What is a Memory Liquidator?
We live in a world of specialists. With organic farming specialists, yoga specialists and even dog housebreaking specialists; having a niche seems to be the latest trend. So it’s not surprising that in the IT and memory liquidation industry, there are people who specialize in finding and
Why Condition is Critical to Your HP Parts
When buying and selling used HP parts it is very critical to know the ins and outs of the genuine product label. Knowing how to identify your HP labels and how to take care of them can help you avoid receiving fraudulent modules, and increase the value of your memory. HP uses a majority of different
The Latest in Federal E-waste Recycling Laws: What You Need to Know
Change is on the horizon for e-waste recycling laws and regulation. A new head of the EPA and recent new stories have shined a spotlight on a troubling trend in e-scrap recycling. A thriving international black market has developed in recycling IT equipment. And the poisonous materials inside scrap