Tailored Recycling and Disposal Solutions For Your End Of Life IT Assets

For over 25 years, CompuCycle has been a national leader in the electronics refurbishing and recycling industry. Founded in 1996, CompuCycle is a nationwide business and Houston’s first woman-owned e-Steward certified company with multiple certifications to its name. CompuCycle’s combined 130,000 square foot facilities, including our state-of-the art electronics shredder and plastics processor, enables us to handle all your e-waste recycling needs in-house, ensuring your IT assets are safely, securely and responsibly recycled.

Why Companies Choose CompuCycle

See why customers choose CompuCycle for responsible, safe and secure IT asset recycling and refurbishing.

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Secure Physical Data Destruction

Whether it’s private details from your customers, employees, business partners, or proprietary information critical to your business, protecting confidential data is paramount.

For businesses in regulated industries or those with stringent data protection needs, physical destruction of hard drives and SSDs is an essential service.

At CompuCycle, we offer Hard Drive, SSD and Media Storage Device Shredding as an option to meet compliance requirements and ensure your data is securely and irreversibly destroyed.

What is Hard Drive Shredding?

Hard drive shredding is a secure method of data destruction that involves physically dismantling and destroying hard drives to ensure that any data stored on them is completely obliterated. This process is crucial for organizations that need to dispose of old or outdated storage devices while ensuring that sensitive information cannot be recovered or reconstructed.

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Multimedia & Storage Device Shredding

In addition to hard drives, many other types of storage devices store sensitive data that can pose a security risk if not properly destroyed. CompuCycle offers comprehensive shredding services for a wide range of multimedia and storage devices, ensuring that data from these devices is permanently destroyed and cannot be recovered.

  • Floppy Disks

    Though outdated, floppy disks can still contain sensitive data. Our shredding process ensures that these older storage devices are physically destroyed, making any attempt to retrieve data impossible.

  • CD-ROM and DVDs

    Optical media like CDs and DVDs often store confidential files, backups, or other proprietary information. We shred these disks into tiny fragments, ensuring that no data can be retrieved or reconstructed from the shredded pieces.

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    USB Drives

    USB drives are commonly used to store and transfer data, but they can also become security risks if lost or discarded improperly. Our shredding services render these drives irreparable, ensuring that any stored data is securely eliminated.

  • External Hard Drives

    External hard drives can contain large amounts of sensitive data, including backups and archives. Through our industrial shredding equipment, we destroy the data-bearing components of external hard drives, preventing any possibility of data recovery.

Data Security Covered from All Angles: Physical Destruction or Secure Sanitization

Your tagged IT assets are securely transported to our facility, where they’re assessed for either recycling or refurbishing. Every step is tracked in real-time and accessible through our Client Portal, giving you full transparency throughout the process.

Choose between two options:

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1. Physical Destruction

If data security is the highest priority, assets can be physically destroyed, ensuring complete data elimination. Recyclable items are processed via our in-house shredder under e-Stewards standards, ensuring full environmental compliance.

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2. Certified Data Sanitization & Asset Value Recovery

To offset overhead costs, eligible IT assets can be refurbished for resale or redeployment, allowing you to recover value from your IT equipment while maintaining data security through certified sanitization processes. We adhere to the highest DoD 5220.22 and NIST 880-88 data erasure standards.

What Are The Benefits of Data Sanitization vs. Physical Hard Drive Destruction?

While physical hard drive and SSD shredding ensures complete destruction of sensitive data, it also means sacrificing any potential value your IT assets might still hold. Many companies are now opting for data erasure to NIST and DoD standards, which securely wipes data from devices without the need for physical destruction. This allows businesses to unlock the value of their IT assets through value recovery—enabling the resale or reuse of equipment that is still functional after secure data sanitization.

Maximize ROI

Secure data erasure allows you to remarket or reuse IT assets, transforming them into revenue-generating resources instead of writing them off as waste.

Support Sustainability Goals

Data erasure reduces e-waste by extending the lifecycle of IT equipment, helping your organization meet corporate sustainability and ESG targets.

Ensure Regulatory Compliance

CompuCycle ensures compliance with strict data security standards, whether you opt for data erasure or physical destruction, protecting your company’s sensitive information.

Seamless Asset Disposition

CompuCycle manages the entire refurbishing and resale process, giving you a hands-off approach to IT asset disposition while still benefiting from the sale of your assets.

Our commitment to sustainability goes beyond recycling electronics.

We deliver services that secure your data, champion environmental sustainability, and support community growth.