Free Computer Equipment Recycling Available At All Green Electronics Recycling

By: Keith Hunt Click author's name for more of his/her articles

All Green Electronics Recycling announces that they are offering free pick up and free disposal of pc systems to companies nationwide.

"Most businesses are disposing of their old computer hardware responsibly. But there are millions of computer systems owned by corporations that will not be disposed of correctly. This is a very real concern for us and the protection of our environment," states Arman Sadeghi, President of All Green.

All Green Electronics Recycling based in California is a nationwide electronics recycler and provides secure disposal of computers, monitors, TVs, cell phones and many other electronics except for household appliances.

"It's not that these enterprises are irresponsible, they simply don't know what to do about recycling of computer equipment. computer equipment disposal is our business and we know how to handle the situation and make sure old computers and monitors find their way into landfills or in the hands of child laborers in developing nations."

"To ensure this doesn't happen we are offering free pick up and no charge disposal of old computer equipment to any business nationwide."

The Environmental Protection Agency states that used computer equipment as one of the fastest-growing waste problem in the United States. Computer and monitor components such as circuit boards, batteries, and color cathode ray tubes contain hazardous materials including lead, mercury and chromium. If computers are simply dumped, these toxins can be released into the environment - into the ground and water through landfills, or in the form of toxic incinerated ash.

There is another issue and that is the information stored on the hard drive. Or more importantly what we assume has been wiped from the hard drive.

Craig Crossman, columnist and host of the nationally syndicated computer radio show, Computer America alerts "Data deleted on a hard drive is really not deleted. The OS (Windows, OX S, Linux, etc.) just marks the space to be available for new data and eventually the “deleted” data will get overwritten. However if you want to make sure you data is truly deleted, you need a utility designed to erase data by overwriting it with random patterns of ones and zeros. There are many such utilities available, some free, some are included within of a suite of utilities. In any case, be sure you use one of these deletion utilities in order to insure you data has been completely overwritten and thus deleted."

Sadeghi continues, "Can companies rely on staff to delete sensistive information recommended by Craig Crossman? Probably not. This means that businesses will have to test every system before it leaves the premises. Depending on the number of computer systems being sent for recycling this procedure could take weeks."

"We can save companies time and money as we offer a secure service for the disposal of computer equipment such as ones that included sensitive information. Businesses can send a representative to monitor the computer equipment disposal if they wish."

“Corporations are always upgrading their computer systems. We urge companies to consider the computer equipment disposal at the same time they are making the purchase of new systems," concludes Sadeghi.

For more information on free computer equipment pick up and disposal call All Green Electronics Recycling at 800-780-0347 or visit their website at http://www.allgreenrecycling.com/