Recycle Your Media provides secure data destruction and recycling services for data storage media. They have over 25 years of experience in data media and invest in eco-friendly recycling technologies. They offer a cost-free and secure alternative to shredding that destroys data through degaussing and erasure, then recycles the materials. The process is audited and certified to meet security and environmental compliance standards while saving customers money over other disposal methods.

1. Secure data destruction for data
media

2. Who is Recycle Your Media?
• We are a market leader in the purchase and
disposition of used inventories of data
media, and the processes and technologies of
secure data sanitization
• The principals of the company have been in the
data media business over 25 years and invest
heavily into the research and development of
eco-friendly technologies for data media
recycling

3. Value Proposition
• A fully secure, end-of-life solution for data
media disposal that adds value to current
customer relationships
• A tape disposal alternative that is cost free and
provides incentives to your team
• A partnership in which we provide the specific
experience, proprietary technology, dedicated
personnel, market access, and financial
resources to make it a success!

4. Customers See the Value
• Data sanitization is a highly secure and auditable
process down to the individual tape
• Eradicating data and salvaging the tape aligns
with corporate and government environmental
mandates
• This process creates revenue and changes the
economics of tape disposition

5. Security Comes First
• Our priority is to protect the interests of your
organization and your customers
• We understand the severity of state and federal
compliance issues
• Data media, and the sensitive data that resides
on it, is our ONLY business
• We exceed all DoD, NAID, HIPAA, SOX and
GLBA guidelines for data destruction

6. A Secure Alternative to Shredding
• Data sanitization completed on-site at the
customer location or off-site at our secure
facility
• All secure logistical requirements are our
responsibility, customer has a menu of security
options
• Detailed auditing reports and chain of custody
• Certified letters of data destruction

7. Data Sanitization
• Degaussing (Purging)
▫ DoD specified degaussers
▫ Exceeds coercivity of specific format
▫ Four-pass process with verification
• Complete data erasure and encryption
▫ 100% of tape (“pin-to-hub”)
▫ 10 times the drive head strength eliminating all
signal
▫ Proprietary technology

8. Data Sanitization (cont’d)
Fully Erased… And Verified

9. Certification
• Tape audit by volser
▫ Listing of all serial numbers prior to data sanitization
▫ Confirmation by owner
Detailed chain of custody
▫ Chronological documentation including final
unit, box, pallet counts, weights, tape
formats, condition, etc.
• Letter of data destruction
▫ Details unit count by format and process

10. Secure Transportation
• Single shipment transport
• Custom Critical services
• Locked containers
• Detailed chain of custody

11. A Greener Solution
• Computer tape is NOT bio-degradable
• Plastic and metal components end up in landfills
• Low prices for media disposal often sends tape
across borders or to illegal dumps
• Incineration sends toxic chemicals into the
atmosphere
• The environmentally conscious solution is total
data erasure and recycling/reuse

12. Dollars and Sense
1 file box of paper= $5.00 1 file box of media= $500.00

13. Conclusion
• Shredding tapes is no longer the best solution to
data tape disposal
• Secure Data Sanitation provides customers a better
alternative
• A totally secure, environmentally -friendly solution
with complete chain of custody and certified data
destruction documentation for compliance
• The lowest net cost per unit by recouping the
material reclaim values, saving you and your
customers money.