Sims Recycling Solutions touts its on-site hard drive destruction service

Sims Recycling Solutions, with Americas headquarters in West Chicago, Illinois, has acknowledged the one-year anniversary of its on-site hard drive shredding vehicle, which began servicing customers Aug. 14, 2013. Since its introduction, the vehicle has destroyed almost 100,000 hard drives, which is nearly 200,000 pounds of material, Sims says.

Within the past year, Sims acquired two additional vehicles to keep up with demand. In addition to these vehicles with built-in degaussing and shredding capabilities, Sims Recycling Solutions also owns portable equipment to service areas outside of the vehicles’ coverage areas.

The benefit of using an on-site hard drive destruction service is the advantage of witnessing the physical destruction prior to being transported to a recycling facility, the company says.

“As reliance on the cloud and convenient mobile storage solutions grows, more data will continue to be stored on servers and hard drives,” says Sean Magann, vice president of Sims Recycling Solutions. “This mobile hard drive shredding service has been great for data centers and businesses in need of convenient data destruction options that offer maximum security.”

Customers using this service can observe the degaussing and/or shredding of their equipment and will be provided with certificates of destruction, the company says. Video copies of the shredding also are available by request. Further processing and recycling is conducted at the closest Sims Recycling Solutions facility.

Sims Recycling Solutions, a business unit of Sims Metal Management Ltd., is a global leader in electronics reuse and recycling, offering IT asset disposition and mobile device refurbishment services. Sims provides disposition services for all types of retired electronic equipment to local, national and global customers in every business sector including data centers, health care, financial service and technical organizations.