SERVICE STANDARDS
Data-bearing Equipment & Destruction Policy
Important instructions for computers, drives, phones and other equipment that may contain information.
Website edition: 5 October 2026 · Quality Waste Limited
Before collection
Identify data-bearing items, confirm that you have authority to dispose of them, back up anything you need and tell us your security requirements. Remove personal accounts, activation locks and remote-management restrictions where appropriate. Do not send passwords in an ordinary enquiry.
Secure Shredding & Data Destruction
Data-bearing media are shredded as standard, and a Certificate of Data Destruction is included. Equipment recycling is handled separately from the shredding of its data-bearing media.
Inventory and certification
A Certificate of Data Destruction is included as standard and records the destruction work completed. Additional asset-level serial-number reporting can be discussed with the team. A general recycling receipt does not replace the destruction certificate.
Contract and questions
Where applicable, agree controller/processor terms and any subcontracting before data-bearing assets are transferred. Our service quotation defines the work and evidence included. Read our Data Security Policy and Data Breach Policy or contact our team for a specific requirement.