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RECYCLE EQUIPMENTAny computer equipment, working or not, can be donated to FREE GEEK; we will repair and reuse what computers we can. Non-functioning computers and scrap will be recycled responsibly.
Please see this link for equipment donations. WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR COMPUTER WHEN IT IS RECYCLED?Computers that are deemed obsolete or broken are demanufactured and separated into their basic components. FREE GEEK then finds a local industrial recycler to process the materials.
FREE GEEK works with companies that we are confident are handling the materials in an environmentally responsible manner. WHAT HAPPENS TO DONATED HARD DRIVES?At Free Geek we take the utmost care to ensure complete data destruction of all user data that is donated to us. Hard drives that meet our specifications for reuse are removed from their systems and wiped in our hard drive sanitation banks. The process we use complies to DOD (Department of Defense) 5220-22.M standards for data destruction. Every sector of the hard drive is overwritten 3 times using a destructive write which ensures that ALL data on the drive is completely destroyed and totally unrecoverable. Hard drives that are below our specifications for reuse are physically destroyed on site. Magnetic media such as floppy disks and backup tapes are disassembled in our recycling area and the plastic components are shredded by our plastics recycling vendor. Optical media such as cd-rw discs are physically destroyed as soon as we receive them. If you want to wipe your own hard drive before donating it, you can use one of these open source tools to do so:
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