Safe Methods of Electronic Waste Disposal

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Safe Methods of Electronic Waste Disposal
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Because of the speed of technological development
most companies are finding that they have to
replace their computers sooner than they have
always done and sometimes so they can keep up
with hardware and software advancements or just
as a result of plain wear and tear. There are
many reasons why it is no longer cost-effective
for many businesses to keep on reusing their
outdated machines and this is why Chicago
computer recycling becomes such as viable option.
Even though computer recycling and donation are
great things for any company to do, they come
accompanied with some inherent danger.
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All machines that are slated for the electronics
recycle program have to become sanitized through
secure data destruction. Failure to do this
carefully there will be a lot of corporate and
customer information that will be vulnerable to
falling in the wrong hands especially by hackers
and data thieves. On the other hand, when
computers are not disposed of on the right
manner, there are two great risks that managers
should be aware of there is data security and
corporate liability as well as the environmental
risk because of toxic chemicals and components
that could easily be released into the
environment and cause a hazardous impact on the
environment and the community.
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Corporate liability risk The correct form of
computer recycling is more than being just
environmentally friendly there is also some
responsibility you have in regards to the data
that is contained in any old machine. You want to
avoid having your company liable for any
financial or customer information that could
easily fall into the wrong hands once you are
done with your computer recycle exercise.
Data theft If you are donating your computers
you want to ask yourself whether they contain any
sensitive and confidential information that
should not have the smallest chance of reaching
the hands of a data thief or a hacker. This is
why you may want to retrieve the hard drive and
ensure that proper hard drive shredding has been
done this is one of the best ways of sanitizing
your entire machine using secure processes that
you can trust.
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Do-it-yourself data security There are people
who believe that erasing files from their
computers is enough to keep away data thieves
from getting access to any confidential
information stored therein. You may want to use
data wiping software to make the retrieval of the
information more difficult but it may not
necessarily be a solid guarantee of secure data
destruction. You want to remember that when you
begin running a data destruction program you may
not be able to recover any such data you want to
work with a reputable electronics recycling
company to ensure that the process is done safely.
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