WHY RECYCLE THROUGH eFORCE RECYCLING...
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eForce has a strict compliance and certification program. This along with affiliations with other organizations make recycling safe for the environment.
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eForce Compliance provides the highest levels of sensitive data destruction as certified by our National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) AAA certification, the highest available certification for our industry.
What Is NAID AAA Certification?
NAID AAA Certification helps you verify that a potential shredding and destruction vendor meets the National Association of Information Destruction’s (NAID) strict information disposal standards. In order for eForce Recycling to achieve AAA certification, we had to pass annual, unannounced audits conducted by independent Certified Protection Professionals (CPP).
eForce Recycling has to continue to pass each audit to maintain the AAA certification. Each audit is rigorous to ensure our client’s data is being destroyed to the highest standards in the data destruction industry. During each audit, we’re assessed on:
To continue to provide your business with the highest-quality data destruction service, eForce Recycling continues to uphold the strictest standards through our voluntary AAA certification under NAID.
NAID AAA Certification helps you verify that a potential shredding and destruction vendor meets the National Association of Information Destruction’s (NAID) strict information disposal standards. In order for eForce Recycling to achieve AAA certification, we had to pass annual, unannounced audits conducted by independent Certified Protection Professionals (CPP).
eForce Recycling has to continue to pass each audit to maintain the AAA certification. Each audit is rigorous to ensure our client’s data is being destroyed to the highest standards in the data destruction industry. During each audit, we’re assessed on:
- Operational and facility security
- Information destruction processes
- Employee hiring practices
- Insurance liability coverage
To continue to provide your business with the highest-quality data destruction service, eForce Recycling continues to uphold the strictest standards through our voluntary AAA certification under NAID.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ELECTRONICS RECYCLING...
E-waste is ugly. E-waste is hazardous. Unfortunately, e-waste is shipped overseas by many recyclers, causing irreversible damage to human beings and the environment. Yet many organizations unknowingly choose recyclers who ship obsolete electronics overseas with no regard to their final destination. Employing the use of a recycler who ships overseas dramatically increases the risk of environmental liability. All organizations, either morally or legally, should develop a compliance plan for the disposal of retired electronic assets to avoid fines, litigation and even possible imprisonment.
A certificate of destruction or recycling is meaningless without full downstream accountability. Recording every pound that we receive and every pound we ship, regardless of the material, allows for us to provide transparent downstream verification of the materials we process.
Broken light bulbs. Computer upgrades. Dead batteries. Paper documents. These are just a few examples of everyday occurrences in daily business operations that require regulatory attention. Increasingly complicated compliance guidelines have placed a burden on organizations to assure adherence with local, state, federal, EPA, DEP and the multitude of privacy laws in existence today. We take care of these concerns for our clients with the assurance that everything we recycled is fully compliant.
eForce Recycling assures our clients that the highest environmental value is achieved and that all obsolete material is demanufactured onsite.
Electronics contain a number of hazardous materials that, when improperly disposed of, create an environmental hazard. Some of the benefits of proper recycling include:
Do you know about the Basel Convention?
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to prevent transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries (LDCs). It does not, however, address the movement of radioactive waste. The Convention is also intended to minimize the amount and toxicity of wastes generated, to ensure their environmentally sound management as closely as possible to the source of generation, and to assist LDCs in environmentally sound management of the hazardous and other wastes they generate. Read more...
Illegal shipments of electronic waste are in violation of the Basel Convention. We don't believe in negative campaigns against our competitors who have been accused of shipping overseas illegally. But we do feel it is important for our clients to know the risks associated with improper disposal: legally, morally and environmentally.
Interesting Facts:
A certificate of destruction or recycling is meaningless without full downstream accountability. Recording every pound that we receive and every pound we ship, regardless of the material, allows for us to provide transparent downstream verification of the materials we process.
Broken light bulbs. Computer upgrades. Dead batteries. Paper documents. These are just a few examples of everyday occurrences in daily business operations that require regulatory attention. Increasingly complicated compliance guidelines have placed a burden on organizations to assure adherence with local, state, federal, EPA, DEP and the multitude of privacy laws in existence today. We take care of these concerns for our clients with the assurance that everything we recycled is fully compliant.
eForce Recycling assures our clients that the highest environmental value is achieved and that all obsolete material is demanufactured onsite.
Electronics contain a number of hazardous materials that, when improperly disposed of, create an environmental hazard. Some of the benefits of proper recycling include:
- Reduction of environmental liability.
- Conservation of valuable resources, namely precious metals, copper, steel, aluminum, plastic.
- Saves valuable landfill space.
- Reduces lead emissions from incinerators, thus helping to reduce air pollution.
- Helps companies meet their recycling mandates.
Do you know about the Basel Convention?
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to prevent transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries (LDCs). It does not, however, address the movement of radioactive waste. The Convention is also intended to minimize the amount and toxicity of wastes generated, to ensure their environmentally sound management as closely as possible to the source of generation, and to assist LDCs in environmentally sound management of the hazardous and other wastes they generate. Read more...
Illegal shipments of electronic waste are in violation of the Basel Convention. We don't believe in negative campaigns against our competitors who have been accused of shipping overseas illegally. But we do feel it is important for our clients to know the risks associated with improper disposal: legally, morally and environmentally.
Interesting Facts:
- The Average Laptop Could Contain Data Worth Almost $1 Million according to a report by security-software company Symantec, and some could store as much as $8.8 million. It is critical that businesses start looking beyond just the price of the hardware and recognize that they also need to invest in protecting the data stored on these machines, Symantec concluded.
- The Gramm-Leach-Billey Act Imposes Up To $100,000 Per Violation for financial institutions that fail to protect customer information.
- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Holds Equipment Owners Fully Accountable in terms of fines and litigation, if their e-waste leaks toxins or more into the environment.
- You Can Go To Jail For Improper PC Disposal. Few executives are aware of fines and jail time that they can get for improperly disposing of old hardware according to a recent survey by Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) Financial Services.
