Outdated PCs boot up business for disposal firm
Posted in Company Press
A great profile story exclusively about Kory Bostwick and PC Disposal.
Companies such as Sprint Corp. and Time Warner pay PCDisposal.com to take old equipment off their hands. The fee seems small compared with fines that can be levied should environmental regulators trace old equipment in a landfill back to a company -- a process helped by serial numbers. Bostwick said fines can go as high as $10,000 a unit. That hurts. Especially if the EPA finds 1,000 computers and hands down a seven-figure fine, as Bostwick said he has heard was slapped on one Fortune 500 company. Regulators say states need more people like Bostwick, who provides a full-service outlet for companies that otherwise may have thrown old PCs in the trash bin.
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you order PC Disposal's Secure Plus™ Risk Management Disposal service, these cages
will be delivered to your location. PrivaCages can easily be rolled from floor to floor
and room to room, allowing your staff to securely move old equipment to your shipping
dock for pickup by our company.
Sometimes publicity can be a bad thing. Like when
your company is in the news because client records were found in city dumps or bought on
an auction website. If recycling companies are keeping their promises to sanitize hard
drives, why does data keep showing up on hard drives that were supposed to be sanitized
or destroyed?