Reviewing various articles about recycling computer kit revealed a number of links to sites which do it but the links no longer work. Those links represented various organizational efforts to deal with recycling.
Conversely, there's been a significant increase in corporate efforts toward recycling such kit, specifically by Staples, Office Depot, and even Best Buy among others. It appeared Staples offers to accept the most comprehensive array of hardware and that satisfies my need since I have a deceased disk drive.
Recycling computer kit matters because there are many materials in it you just don't want in a landfill. None of those corporate initiatives performs the recycling but they connect with outfits which have the equipment to extract the various elements, etc.
There is a security consideration to disposing of a disk drive even when it does not work. With the right equipment you could still pull data from it so releasing the device is an exposure.
One option is to smash the disk but that's so reprehensibly wasteful and that would guarantee it ends up in a landfill. I did consider that for a short time but wrote it off for that reason.
The security consideration in releasing the device to a recycle outfit is they can probably pull whatever they want from it whether at the data level of the elemental level. That exposure is judged to be minuscule since it would take an enormous effort to do it but a bad guy can buy credit card IDs by the truckload on the Dark Net.
Therefore, Staples looks like an excellent move for that drive since it's definitely done its last data transfer here. It's kaput. (Staples: Start greening your office)
I'm not as extreme about tree hugging as it may seem, in part because I don't get off on the bugs too much. It may even shock you to discover some of the elements in even your cellphone and recycling them is important for multiple reasons.
Ed: it's getting kind of preachy!
I don't want too much of that but I've just discovered the facility at Staples and the disk drive has been a Big Deal in this way since it's been sitting here, remaining deceased, throughout due to an impasse on what to do with it.
There's further significance since Yevette's old Mac is beyond resale value and that's a security exposure as well plus it carries its own packet of non-landfill elements. The same applies to her old monitor and that has zero resale value but can't go to a landfill.
Staples looks like an excellent solution.
Conversely, there's been a significant increase in corporate efforts toward recycling such kit, specifically by Staples, Office Depot, and even Best Buy among others. It appeared Staples offers to accept the most comprehensive array of hardware and that satisfies my need since I have a deceased disk drive.
Recycling computer kit matters because there are many materials in it you just don't want in a landfill. None of those corporate initiatives performs the recycling but they connect with outfits which have the equipment to extract the various elements, etc.
There is a security consideration to disposing of a disk drive even when it does not work. With the right equipment you could still pull data from it so releasing the device is an exposure.
One option is to smash the disk but that's so reprehensibly wasteful and that would guarantee it ends up in a landfill. I did consider that for a short time but wrote it off for that reason.
The security consideration in releasing the device to a recycle outfit is they can probably pull whatever they want from it whether at the data level of the elemental level. That exposure is judged to be minuscule since it would take an enormous effort to do it but a bad guy can buy credit card IDs by the truckload on the Dark Net.
Therefore, Staples looks like an excellent move for that drive since it's definitely done its last data transfer here. It's kaput. (Staples: Start greening your office)
I'm not as extreme about tree hugging as it may seem, in part because I don't get off on the bugs too much. It may even shock you to discover some of the elements in even your cellphone and recycling them is important for multiple reasons.
Ed: it's getting kind of preachy!
I don't want too much of that but I've just discovered the facility at Staples and the disk drive has been a Big Deal in this way since it's been sitting here, remaining deceased, throughout due to an impasse on what to do with it.
There's further significance since Yevette's old Mac is beyond resale value and that's a security exposure as well plus it carries its own packet of non-landfill elements. The same applies to her old monitor and that has zero resale value but can't go to a landfill.
Staples looks like an excellent solution.
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