As a technology integrator, Wachter specializes in tech upgrades for industries as varied as retail, quick-serve restaurants, manufacturing, and healthcare. Those upgrades invariably come with hardware upgrades. So what happens to the old hardware? As part of Wachter’s commitment to reducing waste where we can, e-waste recycling can be an option for aging technology determined to be outdated or nearing end of life.
Nina Yanzuk, Warehouse Manager for Wachter Technology Services, says Wachter partners with recycling companies that can safely and securely decommission and destroy electronic waste. During a technology update, customers can ship e-waste to Wachter, where her team will separate, inventory, and schedule a pickup from an e-waste recycler.
E-waste disposal is more than just passing a magnet over a hard drive. Equipment like hard drives, monitors, printers, server racks and cabling and the records inside must be safely powered down, inventoried, and disposed of according to environmental and data privacy regulations. Once Wachter powers down a system, our technicians create a report of each item removed and the recycling partner can track each item through the decommissioning and recycling process via a parent-child audit.
Once the audit is complete, the recycler can provide a certificate of destruction so the customer knows their sensitive or confidential data has been safely and securely destroyed.
Wachter maintains a nationwide network of technology and service partners. No matter where in the country your technology update takes place, our team of W2 technicians and electricians can service your project from start to finish, including sourcing an e-waste recycler to accommodate your project. We can even decommission and recycle systems used in highly regulated industries like healthcare and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
When you partner with Wachter for a technology upgrade for your business, our project managers think through each stage of the project from inception to final walkthrough, including disposal and decommissioning of obsolete technology. Thanks to our partnerships with regional and national e-waste recyclers, our customers never have to answer the question “What are we going to do with all this old equipment?”
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