Sims Recycling Solutions announces two new on-site data destruction services: on-site degaussing and on-site secure hardware destruction. On-site degaussing uses electromagnetic fields to erase data from hard drives and tapes, rendering them useless. On-site secure hardware destruction uses specialized NSA-approved machinery to physically destroy hard drives by bending, breaking, and mangling components to guarantee the drives are no longer usable. Both services can be witnessed and are certified, and all materials are then transported securely for further processing.

1. On-Site Data &
Hard Drive Destruction
Sims Recycling Solutions is pleased to announce the addition of two new on-site destruction
services to its comprehensive asset management and recycling portfolio.
Allowing data to leave your site is not an option. Sims Recycling Solutions can provide on site
data erasure, degaussing or physical hard drive destruction without interrupting your office
environment.
ON-SITE DEGAUSSING
Sims Recycling Solutions’ portable degausser ensures data is destroyed
on hard drives and data-tapes. Through the use of very powerful
electromagnetic fields all data is eradicated from magnetic media
storage devices. Degaussed hard drives are rendered useless.
ON-SITE SECURE HARDWARE DESTRUCTION
Sims Recycling Solutions’ customized service travels to your site to
physically destroy data bearing electronics. Specialized NSA approved
machinery physically destroys hard drives by bending, breaking and
mangling the hard drive and its internal components. The data platters
are bent and separated from the hub, the hard drive housing is cracked,
the PC board is broken and the read/write heads are mangled. Damaged
hard drives are securely transported to a Sims Recycling Solutions
facility where the hard drives are shredded into pieces. Physical
destruction guarantees that your hard drive is no longer useable.
ASSET MANAGEMENT & CERTIFICATES
Sims Recycling Solutions can record serial numbers of all materials
destroyed to provide comprehensive reporting. Additionally, a certificate
of complete destruction will be provided for your records.
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2. On-Site Services
On-site Services
LOGISTICS capture and auditing OF assets
On-site data On-site secure hardware destructiOn
Sims Recycling Solutions will transport your
This service compiles a comprehensive list of electronic BENEFITS OF DEGAUSSING travels MEDIA site to
This is a dedicated service that YOUR to your
electronic waste and remnants of hardware and
assets on site to ascertain what crushed • Degaussing your bearing ensures your
physically destroy data media items such as compact
materialis being disposed of. This allows your company
software directly to one of our processing discs, data-tapeswith hard drives. Anprivacy truck
compliance and Government 18 tonne
centers for furtheroff equipment from the asset
to appropriately sign shredding/destruction. All houses this specialist machinery that can granulate
mandates such as the HIPAA and GLBA
register, whilst giving IT managers information on the above assets down to flakes less than 6mm in size.
equipment will be properly and securely deletion.
software licenses available for reallocation or Acts.
Ensuring the secure destruction of any data and
recycled in anthe Lifecycle Services proposition to
It also allows environmentally friendly manner. • Degaussing yourthe destruction,only way
allowing you to witness media is the if necessary.
All vehicles arediscern the most appropriate disposal
work with you to secure and for an additional of erasing data on failed hard drives and
strategy.
fee we can provide a “no-stopping” service. Thistapes. can be combined with a secure media bin.
service
Allowing you to safely collect and store data
• Degaussing your media eliminates the
bearing items until it becomes cost-effective to call in
The drivers/operators of our vehicles are all possibility of recovering sensitive
the shredder service.
security cleared with full background checks.
On-site data erasure information from disposed media.
The Lifecycle Services proposition operates Blancco • Degaussing your media allows for
QUALIFICATIONS Using specialist rigs, brought to
Data Cleaner (BDC).
environmentally friendly recycling.
your site, we are able to securely destroy the data on up
Sims Recycling Solutions’ processing to the HMG
facilities
data centre decOmmissiOning
to 1,000 hard drives a day. BDC is approved A combination of the above services allows the Lifecycle
operate to No. 59001 Quality Management, ISO
IA Standard ISO (Issue 3.1, October 2009), the most BENEFITS OF DESTROYING YOUR MEDIA
Services proposition to provide the complete and
14001 Environmental Management and OHSAS
stringent data destruction standard in the world, it also • Witness the destruction of your hard drive
secure decommissioning of large storage arrays or of
18001 Health and Safety Management
complies with US Department of Defense standards. complete data centres. Full reporting is available on the
by an NSA approved destroyer.
systems. As the largest recycling company • Ensure compliance with all physical hardware
decommissioning process from data and
On-site data erasure using BDC is also available in destruction to an inventory of all materials removed
in the worldanywhere in the assured your data
remote sites
you can rest world using the Lifecycle destruction criteria as set forth by various
from site.
is safe and your electronicSite Service.
Services proposition’s Remote waste is properly laws and regulations.
managed. • Receive a certificate of destruction for
your records for use in the case of an
COMPLIANCE LOgistics
audit.
On-site degaussing Once the data or hardware has been securely destroyed
Sims Recycling Solution’s onsite to ensure data is
A portable degauser is also available services meet at your site, Sims Recycling Solutions will transport it
NIST, HIPAA,hard drives and data-tapes. This uses very
destroyed on PCI-DSS and GLBA compliance directly to one of our processing centres. We operate a
and guidelines requiring destruction all data on a
powerful electromagnetic fields to destroy of data Contact Your Account Representative: for the
policy of ensuring the vehicle is fully accompanied
magnetic storage device.
contained on electronic devices. duration Graham
Deborah of the journey. All vehicles are GPS tracked and
a “no-stopping” policy.
where necessary we can provide
Account Executive
security cleared with
The drivers of our vehicles are all
(916) 746-7331
full background checks.
QuaLiFicatiOns
As part of the world’s largest metals and electronics
recycling company, you can be assured that Sims
Recycling Solutions has the appropriate strength to
match our promises and obligations to clients. All Sims
Recycling Solutions’ sites operate to ISO 9001 Quality
Management, ISO 14001 Environment Management and
OHSAS 18001 Health and Safety Management systems.
Certificate No. EMS 93774 Certificate No. FS 37108 Certificate No. OHS 511434
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