Posts by Emily
Tech Recycle: Turning Recycled Electronics Into Paid Workforce Training for Students
12-week paid program · Ages 18-22 · Certified, Secure Recycling with Value Back · Zero cost to participate For transition-age youth, preparing for life after school often requires more than classroom instruction. Students need opportunities to experience a workplace, develop practical skills and understand what it means to perform real work. That is where work-based…
Read MoreThe Domestic E-Plastics Crisis Nobody Is Talking About
The regulatory pressure on corporate sustainability has eased. That’s not a reason to stop doing the right thing. The Single-Use Problem Is Bigger Than Straws Every July, more than 170 million people in 190 countries commit to refusing single-use plastics for a month. The Plastic Free July campaign, now in its fifteenth year, has driven…
Read MoreITAD Documentation That Actually Holds Up in an Audit
A Certificate of Destruction Is the Minimum. Here’s What Audit-Ready Documentation Looks Like. At the end of an ITAD project, most organizations receive a certificate of destruction and file it away. If an audit never comes, that’s the end of it. But audits do come. Regulatory inquiries come. Data breach investigations come. And when they…
Read MoreData Center Decommissioning Services: The Last Gap in Your Cybersecurity Plan
Does Your Incident Response Plan Cover What Happens After the Server Is Unplugged? Ask your CISO who owns decommissioning. Then ask your IT director. Then ask procurement. You’ll get three different answers — and that’s the problem. ITAD sits at the intersection of IT asset management, information security, and vendor governance. It requires the scrutiny…
Read MoreCompuCycle and Pearland ISD Launch TechCycle: A Workforce Training Program Giving Students with Disabilities a Real Path to Employment
Innovative electronics recycling program trains 18–22 year old students with disabilities in real-world job skills — and is already changing lives. PEARLAND, TX — CompuCycle, a Houston-based IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) and electronics recycling company, and Pearland Independent School District have partnered to launch TechCycle — a hands-on workforce training program that teaches students with…
Read MoreITAD Isn’t a Recycling Decision. It’s a Risk Reduction & Brand Protection Decision.
Corporate hard drives with recoverable data have been sold on eBay. Containers of e-waste have washed up on Malaysian shorelines and been traced back to U.S. companies. In every case, the liability didn’t fall on the vendor who mishandled the assets. It fell on the company whose name was still on the data. These aren’t…
Read MoreThe $987 Billion Question: Is Your ITAD Partner Ready for AI’s Hardware Avalanche?
The data center industry is experiencing an infrastructure transformation unlike anything since the advent of the internet era. While headlines focus on the trillions being poured into AI infrastructure, a critical downstream challenge is emerging that demands immediate attention: the unprecedented acceleration of hardware refresh cycles and the mounting wave of complex electronic waste it’s…
Read MoreGoodwill Houston Partners with CompuCycle to Offer Simple E-Waste Recycling for the Community
Goodwill Houston and CompuCycle have partnered to give Houstonians a simple, trustworthy way to donate and recycle household electronics.
Through this collaboration, residents can drop off laptops, desktops, tablets, monitors, and other household electronics at participating Goodwill Greater Houston donation centers. Reusable items help fund Goodwill’s job training and community programs, while non-resellable electronics are sent directly to CompuCycle’s certified Houston facility for secure, fully in-house recycling—ensuring materials are responsibly processed locally from start to finish.
Read MoreCompuCycle Becomes Exclusive Woman-Owned E-Waste Processor in Texas with ISO 27001 Data Security Certification
New Information Security Management System (ISMS) Certification Guarantees End-to-End Data Confidentiality and Integrity for Corporate IT Asset Disposition (ITAD). HOUSTON, TX – December 9, 2025 – CompuCycle, an industry leader in secure and sustainable IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) and electronics recycling, today announced it has achieved the highly coveted ISO/IEC 27001 certification. With this achievement,…
Read MoreSecure Electronics Disposal in Houston: Why the City’s Largest Industries Trust CompuCycle
When a major healthcare system decommissions thousands of laptops, or an oil and gas company retires an entire data center, one question comes up again and again: What happens to all that data — and where do all those machines go? In Houston, a city defined by energy, healthcare, finance, and innovation, the answer matters.…
Read MoreCompuCycle Executives Join R2 TAC and e-Stewards Leadership Council to Advance ITAD Standards
Houston-based ITAD provider deepens its industry influence through active participation in standard-setting committees. As corporate ITAD needs evolve alongside stricter compliance and ESG requirements, CompuCycle continues to lead the way—this time by contributing directly to the development of industry standards. Two of CompuCycle’s top executives have recently joined the most influential certification committees in electronics…
Read MoreI’m Just a Computer: A Journey Through ITAD Recycling
Meet Chip the Computer – he’s about to take you on an unforgettable journey through the world of IT Asset Disposition (ITAD). Buckle up for an adventure that’s both educational and entertaining! Chapter 1: “Hello, I’m Chip the Computer” Chip sits on a desk, his monitor glowing with excitement and his friendly face beaming “Hi…
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