E-Cycle Environmental

In today’s business environment end of life accountability of an organization’s expired computers is imperative. There are obvious reasons for this, like protecting our environment and abiding by state and federal regulations to insure that our old computers do not end up in a landfill or on a boat to China.
Controlling information is another reason end of life of accountability is so important. Many people take for granted how much information is stored on a computer hard drive. From the inner workings of a business to personal information about employees it is all on the hard drives of our computers. If that information gets into the wrong hands important trade secrets can be lost and your employees identities can be stolen. In order to protect employees and company information the federal government implemented numerous laws and regulations.
E-Cycle Environmental recognized that businesses need the ability to comply with these laws and regulations in disposing of their e-waste in order to avoid being fined by the government and sued by employees. We have created programs that come with a complete package that will give your place of business total accountability of your obsolete equipment’s end of life disposal. You will rest assured that your business will be able to prove from a physical document that your information was destroyed and the equipment was disposed in an environmentally friendly fashion. This will be able to be tracked all the way down to the serial number on each individual piece of equipment

Acts that will affect a how a business handles destruction of information:

FACTA- the law requires the destruction – “shredding or burning” or “smashing or wiping” – of all paper or computer disks containing personal information “derived from a consumer report” before it is discarded.

FERPA- is a federal law intended to protect the privacy of student education records. Disclosure is only allowed by written consent of the parent or eligible student.

HIPPA- to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all electronic protected health information the covered entity creates, receives, maintains, or transmits.

Sarbanes Oxley Act- companies must demonstrate a consistent application of their stated records retention policy in order to verify the SEC filings consistently match all paper and electronic documentation.