Dec 29, 2009
Old Hard Drives Get Sculpted Do you wonder what to do with your old hard drives? Certainly, hard drives from end-of-life computers and servers should never be discarded thoughtlessly -- but what are your options? The most secure option for effectively managing your hard drives is shredding your storage devices which includes [ click for more...... ]
Sep 29, 2009
Irresponsible E-cycling Conjures Catastrophe To perform an illusion, a magician employs a number of techniques to make their trick appear truly enchanted. If done well, the audience is left amazed because, for a moment, they are able to suspend reality and believe that the impossible feats performed in front of their eyes are in fact [ click for more...... ]
Aug 27, 2009
UNICOR's Irresponsible Computer Recycling When A Recycler's Vision Isn’t So Crystal Clear
“Responsible business practices” is a phrase that has gotten its fair amount of exposure as of late. Organizations and corporations who seem to have “gotten it right” throughout their decades of service have been [ click for more...... ]
Jul 29, 2009
The 42-inch Gorilla in the Room Flat-panel Processing: The 42-inch Gorilla in the Room
It’s a topic that’s often been bandied about in our industry; discussed in a somewhat philosophical way rather than with any hard-and-fast practical applications. Commentary on the subject has been mixed, as have the suggested [ click for more...... ]
May 01, 2009
PC Recycler Shreds 18,000 Tapes in 1.5 Days Today marked a very cool milestone for PC Recycler, we just completed one of the biggest shredding jobs we've ever done with our mobile shredding truck. We are very excited and thought we would share the moment with some of our customers and readers of our blog.
Over the last two days (well [ click for more...... ]
Apr 22, 2009
Computer Recycling Policy Update We thought that we would share some of the changes that are going on across the country at the state level pertaining to electronics recycling. As you can see, individual states are taking action to improve recycling laws and regulations from the manufacturer, recycler, and consumer standpoints. [ click for more...... ]
Apr 16, 2009
Insight Into IT Spending We recently uncovered the following article that we thought would be interesting to our customers and readers. The article sheds some positive insight and discovery about the state of IT spending and where companies are making those investments. The company that did the survey was Robert Half [ click for more...... ]
Mar 27, 2009
What Happens to Your Data? What Happens to Your Stored Data When You Recycle Your Old Computer?
It is important to dispose of and recycle old cell phones, electronics and computer equipment appropriately, and many counties and businesses are helping to make it simple for you. Don't forget though - anything you have ever [ click for more...... ]
Mar 20, 2009
PC Recycler Participates in Job Shadow The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) and Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) matched students with businesses in the Northern Virginia area for the 2009 NVTC Groundhog Job Shadow Day. Every year, more and more students are looking to participate in the Shadow Day event. In its first [ click for more...... ]
Mar 10, 2009
Monthly Collection Gets Paper Shredding If you thought our monthly residential computer recycling event couldn't get any better, think again. Besides all the friendly greetings and helpful staff unloading your car and the fact that we do it even when it’s raining, we thought that we would add one more service to our monthly event. [ click for more...... ]
Feb 24, 2009
Cell Phone Shredding Video Studies have shown that cell phones cannot be completely wiped clean of data. This can get risky to discard the phones, which could contain information like business plans, details of customer relationships, information on the structure of the company, details of bank accounts and other personal [ click for more...... ]
Feb 11, 2009
25% off Data Destruction Services In this day and age, security is a huge part of our lives. People's identities, corporate secrets, and Federal Government information are being exposed every day. PC Recycler wants to help fight this problem. Over the next 45 days we are running a promotion of our onsite and [ click for more...... ]
Jan 27, 2009
How a computer is recycled - literally We are wrapping up our annual survey this week and we wanted to get a jump on a question that we asked. A part of that survey was in conjunction with our new blog that we started back in November 2008. We asked people if they could have one question answered in regards to electronics [ click for more...... ]
Jan 05, 2009
PC Recycler’s Annual Survey The holidays are over and the New Year is finally here. PC Recycler would like to start off the year by hearing from you! We have compiled our annual business and consumer survey for 2009. These questions have been put together to get an idea about our customers’ needs because we care about [ click for more...... ]
Dec 31, 2008
Destroy your data before you recycle! With the holidays behind us, many companies in the computer recycling industry will start what we like to call: the spring collection event season. I’m sure you’ve seen, read or heard about these events going on in your community. Over the holidays, many people replaced [ click for more...... ]
Dec 31, 2008
Cox Communications & PC Recycler Event Cox Communications & PC Recycler Event
Cox Communications and PC Recycler have partnered up to offer a special electronics recycling event in preparation of the Digital Television (DTV) Transition. The event will also be a chance for anyone who has questions about DTV to [ click for more...... ]
Dec 15, 2008
The Computer Recycling Export Debate The Computer Recycling Export Debate
If you have not noticed some of the recent headlines about the computer recycling industry, then you have been missing a very heated debate. The topic of this debate involves the exportation of computers and other electronics for recycling to other [ click for more...... ]
Dec 08, 2008
Reuse or Recycling - Which is better? Most people don’t know that reusing an electronic item is far better than recycling it if you have the choice. Why is that?
Well first, let's explain the difference as some people think they are the same. When we say recycle, we mean physically destroying the item and processing [ click for more...... ]
Nov 26, 2008
Hard Drive Shredding Video Hard Drive Shredding Video
We are not professional video journalists here at PC Recycler, but we love our new hard drive shredding service so much that we thought we would take a crack at the idea. Below, you have our attempt at making a commercial/video. Hope [ click for more...... ]
Nov 24, 2008
What is a Degausser? What is a Degausser?
Customers are always asking us: what is a degausser and do we need to use hard drive degaussing service ?
Well, first let's start by explaining what a degausser is. Basically, a degausser is a machine that changes the magnetic domain of [ click for more...... ]
Nov 15, 2008
60 Minutes Segment - Who's to blame? 60 Minutes Segment - Who's to blame?
If you did not get a chance to watch the CBS "60 Minutes" segment on the exportation of electronics to China - you should watch it. Here is the link to the program:
60 Minutes Video
Besides the fact the owner of [ click for more...... ]
Nov 12, 2008
Blog on Computer Recycling and Data Destruction Blog on Computer Recycling and Data Destruction
If you haven't noticed yet PC Recycler has a blog! It's part of our Web 2.0 roll out. What is web 2.0 anyway?
Lots of people and customers over the 8 years we've been in business have asked questions about our business. [ click for more...... ]
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"Our project demanded complete security of our information. PC Recycler knows the importance of proper and complete destruction of critical data. They provide great customer services, convenient pickup and safe recycling."
Tijuan B., Perot Gov. Systems
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