of Computers & Other Electronic Equipment

The electronic products that you use for the ease of corporate work need care not only when they are functional, but also when they have outlived their useful lives. Electronic disposal is just as important, and even more so, as compared to when these are being used.

There are several aspects why electronic disposal is of such great significance. Firstly, environmental pollution regulations, at various levels, bar any effort of discarding electronic equipment as scrap till they are processed first. Secondly, quite a few of these electronic items contain precious metals and economic considerations demand that these are recovered before putting them up for recycling.

There is an important issue especially in the case of computer disposal and that is the issue of data destruction. Before computer disposal action is set in motion, it is incumbent on Asset Recovery companies such as Arion Global Inc to either wipe or shred the hard disc first in order to protect both intellectual property and sensitive data from falling into wrong hands. Read more...

Efficient and Confidential Recycling of Electronic Waste- a Brief

Electronic waste recycling is an essential aspect of corporate responsibility to ensure prevention of environmental degradation and reduction of carbon footprint. At the facility for Electronic Waste Recycling in Los Angeles, Arion Global Inc offers services for the recycling of the entire range of unwanted consumer electronics. These include not only the computers and monitors but also pagers, PDAs and smart phones, cell phones besides MP3 players, DVDs and TVs. These services entail computer disposal, computer recycling, hard-drive shredding, and the wiping of hard drives.

The Electronic Waste Recycling facility in Los Angeles has electronic recyclers and not only recycles all kinds of discarded electronics that include servers, test equipment, networking and scrap mobile phones but also provides the service of pickups for computer disposal. In the case of the pickup service the staff from Arion will come to your office and remove the electronics for recycling quickly. Since the thrust of Arion is to keep components out of landfills, the company’s Los Angeles domestic process will ensure steps that include asset tag removal and the total compliance with all regulations whether these are local, state or federal. For more details please visit our website.

How to wipe hard drive safely?

If you fail to wipe hard drive properly, you stand the risk of leaking highly sensitive data that might still be retrievable from some layer of it. Wiping hard drive should be undertaken such that the computer hardware is rendered completely unusable.

 Mere erasing the data from the hard drive or formatting the drive is not enough for complete data destruction. Ideally, the drive should be physically destroyed to leave no scope for the drive being reused or donated or sold to a third person. The data shredding services own equipment that is designed to wipe a hard drive in totality. They employ a hydraulic crusher to destroy the hard drive, available both on-site and off the site. If the data is highly sensitive in nature, you can call one of these services at your place of work and get the wiping of hard drive accomplished on-site only. It is their business to ensure the confidentiality of your information and they use state-of-the art equipment to make sure of it.