Shredding ensures your data can never be stolen from your old hard drives.

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When recycling computer equipment, it is essential to protect against the loss of proprietary information contained on hard drives. Federal regulations such as HIPAA, FACTA, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley require businesses to control and protect private information, in all its forms, all the way to the trash can.  (We all shred our paper, don’t we?)  Recovery of your data or the data of your customers by unscrupulous third parties can be costly and embarrassing. Simply "erasing" files on your hard drives or reformatting the drive is not enough.  Data can be easily recovered unless the right tools and software are used.

Global offers comprehensive services that ensure the elimination of your proprietary information. Global uses a Department of Defense approved overwriting process using state of the art equipment. Our process yields a permanent and complete deletion of data.

For added safety and absolute security, Global offers certified hard drive destruction using our in-house shredding system. The same process is used by Global to securely shred sensitive military electronics under our primary contract with the United States Department of Defense. At global, hard drives are shredded twice using our sophisticated shredding and separation systems technology. This is done on-site at our high security, limited access facilities in accordance with the same stringent guidelines Global follows for the U.S. military. The hard drives are reduced to small metal fragments from which information can never be extracted. The metal fractions are then further processed for commodity recovery.     

Our double-shredding process reduces hard drives to recycled scrap.