Commercial Asset Recovery

Asset Recovery Programs

Large corporate and government enterprises, as well as small business, need to regularly upgrade their technology hardware infrastructures platform to remain competitive. This constant cycle of refreshing technology creates the ongoing need for the environmentally and economically viable disposition of equipment.

Stockpiling and storing this equipment isn't the answer. Placing electronic equipment, which potentially constitutes hazardous waste, in the trash could lead to fines and penalties from local and state Environmental Protection Agencies.

GreenSight works with its clients to identify and execute remarketing programs designed to return the maximum recovery value for technology assets, while ensuring the highest level of data security and environmental compliance. GreenSight leverages its long-established remarketing channel network to facilitate in the fast recovery of residual value for its customers' equipment. By deploying specialized sales teams dedicated to the efficient resale of used technology equipment, GreenSight can provide industry leading resale values in a rapid order. In many instances, GreenSight will even pay its customers up front for technology assets earmarked for asset recovery. In all cases, customers receive Certificates of Disposal certifying that all technology equipment was remarketing or disposed in an EPA-compliant manner.

Data Security and Destruction

In addition to recycling used electronic products, GreenSight offers the most advanced methods for sanitizing data from, or completely destroying, PC desktop, laptop and server hard drives.

GreenSight complies with the highest standards for sanitizing electronic data by using "Active Kill Disk" software which adheres to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD 5220.22-M Sanitization Schedule) standards. This data sanitation utility optimizes the hard drive wiping process by performing three passes which overwrite random characters across the drive platters, rendering the data irretrievable by standard recovery methods. This "Three Pass DOD" sanitation can be employed on all IDE/SCSI drives of any size, and complies with the U.S. Government data erasure standards for all secret, sensitive and classified information.

Hard drives that are not capable of running the "Active Kill Disk" software are destroyed using a hard drive crushing device that has the capability of boring a 2.5 inch diameter hole through the drive and all of its platters, rendering the data on the drives irretrievable.

Definition of Electronic Waste (E-Waste)

Electronic waste, or E-waste, includes technology equipment, consumer electronics, cell phones and other electronic items that are considered at their ends of the useful and lives and have been discarded by their owners. In recent years, the volume of E-waste both in the United States and abroad has grown dramatically - almost one billion personal computers alone will be replaced worldwide by the end of the decade. If not processed properly, E-waste becomes a major source of toxins and carcinogens and may contain such hazardous materials as lead, mercury and cadmium. Despite its common classification as a waste, disposed electronics are a source of considerable recycling activity due to its potential demanufacture and reuse and downstream material recycling of its constituent raw materials.