IT Equipment Disposal Singapore and Recycle Services
For any business organization, information and IT Equipment Disposal Singapore are vital assets, more so for a knowledge-based organization. All information exists in the digital format and every activity an organization is involved in deals with handling information in some form over the IT equipment.
Disposal of existing IT Equipment comes up when an organization is looking to upgrade its systems. An IT Equipment Disposal Singapore Policy is a policy that governs the secure disposal of those IT equipments which the organization is no longer going to use.
Any information that an organization has pertaining to its clients, suppliers, consumers, etc. is privileged information and as such sensitive. It is of great value and should be protected at all times. It is thus important to lay down rules of how the IT equipments are handled during the work-day and even beyond. The same rules apply when the equipment is being disposed off. The equipments need to be sanitized in order to protect such sensitive information from falling into the wrong hands creating privacy issues or in the hands of the competitors.
Whether an organization decides to donate its IT equipment or sell it for scrap or hire a third party to deal with them, it is important to identify what constitutes as ‘IT equipment.’ The other thing which the organizations need to identify is sensitive and personal data. Categorizing data can facilitate their ‘treatment’ when equipments are being refurbished.
Most IT Equipment Disposal Singapore and remarketing companies provide wide range of customized services to suit the needs of their clients, reduce security risks and leaks and maximize for them their equipments’ remarketing value.
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Some of the services offered by IT Equipment Disposal Singapore and remarketing companies are:
- De-installation: with companies spread locally and globally, keeping track and removal of IT equipment can be cumbersome. This service entails removal of all IT equipment from any given site.
- Data erasure and destruction: simply deleting your data from your equipment may not be enough. Special software is used to wipe all data from the IT equipments before they are recycled.
- Remarketing: IT equipment which are less than 3 years old typically have a higher recoverable value. Remarketing can help in attracting the highest market price for such equipments.
- Equipment destruction and certification: most companies provide environmentally safe disposal of IT hardware and provide certificate of destruction to organizations.
- Logistics: picking up of equipment from the site and transporting it to the processing plant.
Apart from defining an IT Equipment Disposal Singapore policy, it is equally crucial to maintain a practice of good documentation. A chain of custody when dealing with assets containing sensitive data is important. At any point, an organization should be able to track what process their IT equipment is undergoing and whether the data is being properly handled and erased. A solid IT Equipment Disposal Singapore policy can protect the company from law suits and endangering sensitive information.
IT Equipment Disposal Singapore
An average life spam of an IT equipment is three to five years. Thereafter, the IT equipment will be replaced to be either kept away or thrown away. Techtra Solutions provides another alternative for you by using our proper IT Disposal and trade-in methods.
We collect the unwanted items from our clients to find a new home for them if it is in usable condition. Our service is environment friendly and you will receive a certificate after the disposal. Upon evaluation, we might be able to provide a trade-in program for your current needs for IT solutions or products.
Apart from disposing, we also provide degaussing and destroying of sensitive data/media on storage disks and tapes. Depending on your requirements, we will recommend best economical and secured way to facilitate the process either offsite or onsite.
Recycle or Reuse for charity
As mentioned, in many Singapore organisations the average lifespan of an IT Laptop or PC will be 3 to 5 years. Thereafter, the IT department will allocated budget for the company to proceed with a laptop or PC refreshment.
In some cases, the equipment are being thrown away as clients do not know what to do with it. Some recycling vendors extract the valuables inside and leave the remaining for recycle. However, in such cases you can give it to us and we will donate to charity organisation. This small actions might not change the world but it can help out a lot of non-profit organisations to educate the needy community.
As for recycling, we do it in the most environmental friendly way. The pollution results from improper recycling has affected too many Eco-systems in our planet. Thus, it is our responsibility to make this world a cleaner and better place to live in.
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Turn your unused item into money.
IT disposal is a sensitive procedure as it involves data from every company. Hence, it is important to ensure that you dispose your items to a correct vendor and data will be destruct and gone forever. We do not recommend our clients to provide unwanted machines with existing data in it.
However, some clients would want the convenience of a 1 stop solution service. Therefore, our team would at our end ensure that the disposed items will be fully taken care of. In most situations, all data storage devices will be immediately removed to destroy.
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The best thing about using us is we provide an estimated pricing to buy back your unwanted machines. Thus, clients just need to provide us a list of items and our specialist will evaluate the pricing for purchase. This process will help you to save time from site surveying and back and forth communication to negotiate on the pricing. Our evaluated price will be based on the list of items our clients provided, hence in any situation if items are missing a re-evaluated pricing will be offered.
Once items collected go through the destruction process, our financing team will provide the cash or checque payment to you or your company. Therefore, making this a simple and enjoyable process where companies can remove used IT devices and earn money. Start listing down the used items lying around in the company, you might end up with a fruitful return.
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