On Wednesday, October 12, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Bryan Savage wrote:
> Before you let a PC hard drive out of your sight.........
> http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/update/donatecomputer.mspx
>
> If you can't overwrite the Hard Drive, use a sledge hammer on it.
>
> Bryan
> (RAND Corp. used to melt them down)
>
One of our pieces of business (here at Star industries) is to recycle
computers (e-waste). Hard drives, as well as everything else, are
"de-manufactured" back into basic stuff -- metal, plastic, components,
etc -- and returned to the basic materials market. Everything gets
melted/dissolved/crushed & baled. It's all done on this side of the
ocean by Cheesehead Wisconsonites. Nothing* goes to landfill anyplace.
We've sent about 140,000 pounds of e-waste to the recycler so far in C
Y 2005. Since we're a confidential document destruction company we've
got some pretty good protocols about keeping secrets, whether on paper
or on hard drives. All the stuff we do is traceable cradle-to-grave.
I investigated a firm in Cleveland that was going to use a proprietary
chemical process to recover the precious metals from the boards -- but
the "reserved" the right to re-sell anything they didn't want to bathe
in their juice, and since I tell our customers that their stuff will
never again see the light of day -- no go to Cleveland.
* Well, maybe the wood from all those old console television sets. . .
Jon E. Wennerberg
Owner
Star Industries
P O Box 1054
Marquette Michigan 49855
906 249 3342 Office
906 249 5247 Fax
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