At Northamptonshire E-waste and Electrical Recycling, we’re all about keeping businesses working efficiently. In the fast paced world of business, there’s no room for surplus, especially if it’s taking up precious storage space. Our service ensures that your surplus tech waste is removed from the premises for free, with full compliance, including chain of custody documentation.

 

What happens after?

Well that’s dependant first on client requirements. Sometimes e-waste is designated by the client to be destroyed and recycled rather than reused. This includes hard drive/SSD erasure, which we can also provide certification of destruction for. Some clients are happy for working tech waste to be returned to the market, where it can find a second life as a useful asset to someone. Naturally, we prefer to give working tech a second chance, but that comes down to the client’s requirements for disposal. For e-waste that is no longer viable within the market, we’re talking computers and electrical equipment long past their put out to pasture data, we ensure that they are dismantled and recycled to yield the greatest return on recyclable materials. This means that circuit boards can be refined further for precious metal recovery, base metals that are abundant in e-waste, copper, brass, aluminium and steel, are returned to the supply chain, and minimal non-recyclable materials are sent to general waste.

 

What about the hard drives?

Well, depending on the needs of the client, these have several options. For blank hard drives, or ones that have previously been securely erased at the client’s end, these can go straight to the recycling stage. If the client is concerned that there may be data still on the drive that needs removing, we securely erase the drives using Killdisk Professional, a proprietary piece of software that is commonly used in data erasure environments to sanitise hard drives and SSDs. This renders the data on the drive securely erased by using a three pass overwrite method. This essentially writes zeros to all sectors of the drive in three consecutive passes. Due to the fact that data is derived from the arrangements off 1’s and 0’s, writing over everything with zeros makes any data remaining no longer present. A certificate of drive erasure is then generated by the program, and passed on to the client for their records. The drive at that point can go on to be safely recycled.

 

For anyone looking to securely erase a hard drive themselves, please see my website blog post How To Prepare Your PC For Data-Safe Disposal – Northamptonshire E-waste And Electrical Recycling.

 

Please see our website for a comprehensive list of items we accept for free recycling, we aim to repurpose and recycle as many items as we can.

 

For anyone in need of our services, whether now or at a later date, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We’ll be very happy to work with you!

 

Daniel

Northamptonshire E-waste and Electrical Recycling

https://www.northamptonshireewaste.co.uk/

07756145492