| What do you think disposing off your surplus old | | | | equipment disposal? Is donating to charities or |
| computers, monitors, hard drives, and medical | | | | giving away to employees make sense and would |
| equipments in open lands or pitfalls would help you | | | | seize the SCR of any organization? |
| get rid of them? | | | | Keeping before all the legal repercussions and |
| No! You should be careful while taking such action | | | | HIPPA and Green compliance guidelines its more |
| to avoid legal repercussions which could be invited | | | | than important to go for the Computer or IT |
| by irresponsible disposing off or by the asset | | | | recycling option through a Specialized Computer |
| recovery ventures. Your surplus old computers, | | | | Recycling Solution provider having authority or |
| monitors or even IT scrap could be major source | | | | license to recycle the surplus old IT stuff |
| for water contamination, health hazards, and | | | | according to law that relieves you from your SCR |
| pollution that are restricted by law! A worst | | | | and provides you legal safe-guards against legal |
| scenario could be comprehended by a moving | | | | repercussions that could arise even in far future! |
| true story: A philanthropist organization gave | | | | The following steps should be observed while |
| away their surplus IT stuff to a charity for a | | | | surplus old computer recycling, monitor disposal, |
| good cause-- indeed. Unfortunately the charity | | | | secure data destruction or medical equipment |
| irresponsibly disposed off the same IT stuff in a | | | | disposal is required: |
| nearby pitfall/open land. Soon the event somehow | | | | 1- Get Computers, monitors and IT |
| brought to the notice of a watchdog agency. | | | | equipments inventory re-audited, |
| The investigators hinted by the e-waste tags | | | | 2- Get surplus old computers, monitors, |
| and serial numbers got hold of the original owner | | | | and IT equipments inventory re-audited, |
| who was then held responsible for the IT stuff | | | | 3- Get removed all sort of tags from the |
| disposing off. The good cause literally cost the | | | | computers, monitors and IT equipments, |
| organization a dearly amount in fine on just over | | | | 4- Get removed all sort of data from |
| sighting SCR (social corporate responsibility). This | | | | hard drives for secure data destruction, |
| event could be avoided if HIPAA and Green | | | | 5- Get Asset Recovery Servicesinvoice |
| guidelines were observed in letter and spirit! | | | | and Computer Recycling Certificate from the |
| What options then we have to get rid of our | | | | authorized computer recycling solution provider. |
| surplus old computers, monitors and medical | | | | |