The holiday season is slowly creeping up on us. As we do our holiday shopping while trying to tune out the catchy tunes while trying to pick out the best gifts, there should be another thing on your mind. What to do with all the old electronics you’ll likely replace with newly gifted ones by the end of the season. Many people immediately think to just toss or donate, but the most eco-friendly (not to mention wallet friendly!) option is to recycle!

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This year for Christmas, Santa will likely be kind enough to bring many of us new electronics of some sort. But what do you do with all of your old electronics now that you have shiny new ones? 

Data is the currency of your business, can help drive revenue, and can reduce costs and productivity. Every little bit contains a vast amount of personal data that you don’t want falling into the hands of the wrong people. Data doesn’t stop being valuable because it’s on a broken device or stored on a hard drive stacked in a box in the back corner of your server room. Even deleting the files isn’t going to get rid of the data completely. This is why proper data destruction is so important.

The world of medical science is constantly advancing at a breakneck pace, and medical electronics that may have been top of the line a few years ago are now outdated. All of this medical waste starts to pile up and it’s hard to find proper ways to dispose or recycle them. Luckily, Arrow Scrap is here to help. 

E-waste is the mass total of electronics that end up in landfills, or sent to developing countries to be hazardously burned and processed in order to extract bits of gold and other precious metals. These electronics that are thrown away rather than recycled or reused end up leaching toxic elements like chromium and mercury into the environment, negatively impacting humans, plants and animals.

It’s time to hit the beach, grab a cold one, or have a backyard barbecue. But you know what time it is? It’s time to scrap.

Many of the items that come to mind when you think of summer can be scrapped to be both environmentally responsible and to put some cash in your pocket.

Whether you went on a year-end spending spree for the latest electronics for your business or simply need to replace or decommission old and outdated equipment, recycling your electronics is a great idea. But it’s important to know the proper way to dispose of it and why it’s so important in the first place.

You go to great lengths to recycle everything from cardboard to plastic to glass, but what about old car parts? Even routine maintenance can generate waste. For instance, oil filters shouldn’t just be recycled – they must be. The law requires it. Here are some more car-related items you may not have thought to recycle – but you should!

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, commonly known now as HIPAA, has provided patients with the privacy they need but it’s also been a challenge and disruption to the way medical records are maintained and managed from an IT perspective. Patient authorizations are required for any data sharing and breaches of HIPAA can have big financial applications to healthcare providers and networks. In fact, millions upon millions of dollars have been paid out in HIPAA-related breach of privacy cases. This extends to your ITAD practices as well. It’s key to have the right partner to help you navigate.

Proper data management is the key to protecting the security of your company’s sensitive information. In fact, companies are responsible for generating, storing, and securing sensitive data such as financial information, transactions, personally identifiable information, medical information, and more. In addition to the moral & logical responsibility of protecting this information, companies also have a legal obligation to keep sensitive data secure. 

Corporate Compliance regulations vary by industry, but they are crucial in developing your company’s risk management policy. One of the biggest risks of exposure for your company is through poor data destruction polices. Simply destroying IT assets or throwing them out with the trash is not an option, particularly if your organization deals with sensitive data. 

Due to the hard work and advocacy by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), the Department of Homeland Security designated scrap yards such as Arrow Scrap as essential businesses on March 25, 2020.