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Whats different about this service compared to other destruction services?

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Whats different about this service compared to other destruction services?

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Many existing recycling services rely exclusively on trust-based certification of remote destruction. A significant dilemma for recyclers is that old PCs and the hard drives contained therein have residual value in secondary markets such as Eastern Europe and Africa. Therefore, the most commercially profitable secure recycling activity is to apply some cursory overwriting routine to erase data from the drive and sell it on in the secondary market. Otherwise, even if hard drives are destroyed at remote sites in Ireland, there is little or no way to prove conclusively that each and every drive has been processed properly. The disks must pass through many hands before the destruction step, and can remain in storage for extended periods of time. Unless you travel to the remote destruction site, you will have no guarantee that your requests have been fully complied with. CDS destroys your hard drives before your eyes and magnetically degausses the drives prior to destruction. This represent

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