Secure Data Destruction Services

Ecogreen IT Recycling can help you to destroy a hard drive data securely, ensuring that your information remains safe and secure. Avail of our leading data destruction services to make the sensitive information irrecoverable in the UK nationwide.

Secure Data Destruction Services

Importance of Data Destruction

As the problem of electronic waste grows in the country, computer recycling can be a greener and more efficient option for your business. However, before you send your computers for recycling, you need to make sure to get rid of all the private information stored in your drives.

Your hard drives and storage devices contain private personal data and business information, such as customer lists, passwords, and credit card numbers. If this data falls into the wrong hands, this could pose a significant threat to you through data breaches. This is why your discarded items need to have their data destroyed so that they cannot be misused. At Ecogreen IT Recycling, we use GDPR-compliant data erasure methods for your peace of mind.

Importance of Data Destruction

Ecogreen Secure Data Destruction Services UK

Ecogreen IT Recycling offers secure data destruction service following high industry standards. Our data disposal services can be tailored according to your requirements from single wipe standards to sophisticated methods such as degaussing on-site physical destruction and crushing off-site.

We are aware not all businesses function in the same manner, however, it is important to understand the needs of each industry. So, we offer tailor-made data destruction solutions to your business.

Why Get Our Data Destruction Services?

Our hard drives and other such storage devices usually contain personal and confidential data such as business contracts, customer lists, passwords, credit card numbers and photos.

People should know that a quick format won’t stop their data from falling into the wrong hands because there is always a possibility that an alien entity will end up accessing data by using data recovery software.

Our IT recycling services come with secure data destruction to ensure 100% destruction or erasure of your data by helping you prevent identity theft.

Secure Data Destruction Methods at Ecogreen

Data Destruction is not an easy process that could be done without professionals. There are several data destruction methods that can be used but the choice must depend upon the sensitivity of your data and storage device.

Secure Data Erasure

Secure data erasure is the most reliable method of having your data erased. In case of secure data erasure, each block of data on your hard drive and storage media is overwritten with a series of unusable data. The unusable, unreadable data passes over each block multiple times and then ensures that all data on the drive has been completely overwritten.

Data Shredding

In some cases, having your data destroyed within the drive may not be good enough. It might contain sensitive information that needs to be destroyed physically – making the data inaccessible forever. This is why we also offer data hard drive shredding, where your hard drives are shredded into small chunks that are completely unusable.

Data Degaussing

Data stored in laptops or desktops are usually located in the hard drive, which is a form of magnetic media. This means that your hard drive uses magnetic patterns to recognize the information it carries. However, using a data destruction degaussing machine all your data can be erased by generating a powerful magnetic field that would make all magnetic data on the device unusable.

Hard Drive Crushing

If you do not want your hard drive to be shredded into thousands of pieces, you can choose to have your hard drive crushed. Ecogreen has a team of experts who would carefully punch a hole into your hard drive so that your drive platters are destroyed, rendering all data irretrievable. Our experts will punch an irreparable hole in each of your hard drives with extreme pressure, 3,400 kilos to be exact. This kind of pressure will render the data irretrievable by ensuring the destruction of drive platters.

On-Site Data Destruction

Some clients have different priorities based on their business policies. Considering your issues, we also offer on-site physical data destruction. If need be, you can oversee and witness our certified data destruction process by yourself, so that your mind remains at ease.

How Ecogreen IT Recycling Can Help?

When it comes to the protection of your private data, Ecogreen does not compromise.

WEEE Directive Data Destruction

WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Directive is a legislation that aims to stop as much e-waste as possible from ending up in landfills by promoting the reuse of WEEE whenever or wherever possible. In simple words, it stops organisations from treating WEEE as ordinary waste.

The WEEE directive requires businesses to implement an IT waste disposal policy that ensures compliance with it. Disposal process is quite complex; therefore, businesses usually hire professional and secure IT disposal services for asset disposition to carry out the process.

Data Destruction Certificate

After the secure data wiping method, we provide you with the data destruction certificate. Once all data is completely erased, a data destruction certificate is generated with a serial number unique to the item whose data has been destroyed. The process of secure data erasures is verified by us, and even if this method leaves some traces, your drive will still be destroyed physically – ensuring that your data remains protected.

We will provide you with certificates of destruction for your asset disposal to help you with your audit trail. They will serve you as proof that your business complies with all the data protection laws and your personal or confidential data is no longer at risk.

Equipment Used for Data Destruction Process

For our data sanitization services, we use CPNI (Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure) approved shredders that can break down your hard disk drive into pieces as small as 6mm. We scan serial numbers before destroying your drive to ensure the completion of the audit trail.

Our experts can crush an irreparable hole in your hard drive with an extreme pressure of 3,400 kilos – almost equivalent to the weight of an Asian elephant. Our data destruction methods can include from 1 wipe standards to the highest secure data erasure grades. That’s why government-based departments work with us, including councils, as our solutions are tailored to meet their requirements.

FAQs

Contact Ecogreen IT Recycling for secure data destruction services in the UK. We will collect your equipment from your location and get it recycled for you. Before the recycling process, you can book your IT equipment for data destruction if sensitive data is stored on the devices.
Eco Green IT Recycling will erase data from your hard drives while ensuring compliance with the WEEE directive. The certificate of destruction will be provided for each of the following option

Yes. Our secure data erasure includes each media erased to the highest standards, along with certification against that piece of media. Furthermore, the data destruction certificate contains relevant information including the make, model, and the serial number of the device.

Here at Ecogreen, we use a powerful degaussing machine that generates a magnetic field of 18,000 Gauss – more powerful than the electromagnets that are used to lift cars in junkyards. This ensures that all your data is destroyed, but also renders the data-carrying media completely unusable in the future.

We use a degaussing machine for eliminating or reducing the magnetically stored information on your hard drives. Our machine will start erasing or neutralising the magnetic data from your hard drives, after we will expose them to its powerful magnetic field.

Our data shredding process includes scanning serial numbers, which ensures the completion of the audit trail. Our secure data destruction process can also be overseen and witnessed in person, so it’s totally reliable. Disposing of hard drives is not easy, especially when you don’t have a CPNI approved shredder. We use these shredders to shred your hard drives down to 6mm, as per requirement.