How To Dispose of Hard Drives In The UK
If you have a hard drive that needs recycling, you may be wondering where to dispose of it. Here are the best places to get your hard drive recycling done in the UK. The best way to dispose of hard drives – and destroy digital data that is no longer needed – is to have them physically destroyed by a professional document destruction company. This is the most effective and risk-free way to ensure information is permanently destroyed. Domestic Hard Drive Disposal That directive makes computers using digital storage media or a hard drive that store electronic data a type of appliance (Article 22). Accessories to hard drives, such as memory, are not covered by this definition. So you’ll have to destroy your hard drive yourself by filing it, shredding it, or obliterating it. The major shredding companies with offices in the UK are Filer’s, Falcon, Datacart and Bridgepoint. Hard drives will be sent to Billetone International for destruction and certified by their staff to be destroyed o...