Most Recycled Hard Drives Get Crushed
We Have A Hard Drive Crusher: When you recycle a computer, laptop, or Macbook at Seattle Electronics Recycling chances are the hard drive will get crushed. Recycled hard drives that are One Terabyte or larger may get securely wiped with DBAN tested and then re-used. We use hard drives that are recycled for adding storage to refurbished computers. Any hard drive that does not test good, or is larger will be destroyed by crushing. Others may be destroyed by having the green board removed and then the hard drive’s circuit board is purposefully broken so it can not be re-used.
Above Is A Picture Of Our Hard Drive Crusher: This hard drive destroyer is portable. We can take it to our corporate recycling clients, and destroy their data on-site. Some companies require their company’s data be destroyed before they can recycle the hard drives. Our portable hard drive crusher makes this easy. We recommend the IT Department removes the hard drives from computers they want to recycle so destroying them is easier.
Hard Drive Circuit Board Recycling
We Recycle The Circuit Boards From Recycled Hard Drives: Hard drive circuit boards contain rare earth elements in many cases. It is important to recycle as many hard drives as possible. Mining and finding these rare materials is not healthy for the planet. The more old hard drives that industry, and consumers can recycle the need for mining these elements is not as great.
We Do Not Shred Hard Drives: When a computer recycler shreds hard drives dust is created. Any amount of dust created from shredding hard drives is bad for the environment. Even a little bit. Seattle Electronics Recycling chooses to securely wipe drives when possible for re-use. When a hard drive can not be re-used it is crushed, and the metal and circuit boards are recycled and processed.
Above Is A Video Of Hard Drives Being Crushed
This Is How Recycled Hard Drives Get Crushed: If you are interested in watching, here is a video from the manufacturer of the hard drive crusher we use. As you can see hard drives recycled with us can not ever be used. They are broken for good.