SAFE, SECURE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY E-WASTE DISPOSAL

E-waste is a popular and informal name for electronic products that are approaching the end of their “useful life”. Computers, photocopiers and telephones are common electronic products. Many of these products can be reused, refurbished or recycled.

You may have heard that electronic devices are being thrown away in the trash with your personal information still on them. That’s a huge problem because when this happens, criminals can steal passwords and other private data to make fraudulent transactions or gain access for corporate Espionage!

The old ways of protecting ourselves from these threats don’t work anymore: no one really knows what kind of hidden sensors might be built into today’s computers – so there is nothing stopping an attacker who compromises one device from using his hacked machine as another gatekeeper (eavesdropping)? These days we need malware protection at every level; even web browsers cause vulnerabilities.

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THE MOST SECURITY WAY TO DESTROY YOUR E-WASTE

We can take away all your e-waste and have it safely and securely stripped, wiped and safely destroyed. One of our brilliant drivers will come to collect your old electronics, bring them back to us and we can start destruction. Magnets, water and stripping are some of the ways in which we start the process. Using the most up to date processes we will make sure your electronics have no lasting detail of your files at all.

Failure to protect your personal information can be costly. Most electronic devices that end up in landfills or incinerators contain personally identifiable information (PII), such as passwords and other sensitive data, making users vulnerable to identity theft and financial fraud.can’t just throw old computers and laptops in the regular rubbish bin with the rest of the office waste.
Hard drives contain sensitive data about your company, and throwing that data into a landfill does not respect legal privacy policies.

why e-waste should be done

First and foremost, your own personal safety

Over 70% of electronic devices discarded in general waste contains personally identifiable information (PII). This PII contains things like passwords, personal and business data, financial institution credentials, intellectual property, trade secrets and business information – the list goes on.

Next, there’s the threat to the environment.

Most electronics contain toxic materials such as lead, zinc, nickel, barium, chromium and many types of flame retardants. Lead in particular can damage the human body – blood, kidneys, central nervous system and more.

Lastly, there’s the opportunity to reuse some of the components of these products.

Gamers love to build their own hard drives that are capable of handling the power needed for their programs. According to a report from a few years ago, 23 million Australians have unused mobiles sitting in storage at home. Within these mobiles is about 10 tonnes of copper and 300kgs of silver. Copper alone is one of the most reused materials known to man. Silver can be refined and recanted several times over. Glass and plastics can be used over and over.