Wisetek’s EARTH Recycling Program is underpinned by these fundamental commitments:
- We provide full chain of custody tracking and reporting of all redundant/obsolete assets from our receipt to final disposition. This ensures every step in our data sanitization, re-use, recycling and recovery processes is transparent and auditable. An outcome report is always provided enabling the calculation of the Electronics Disposal Efficiency (EDE) % rating.
- We explore, as a priority, all options to extend the useful life of redundant/obsolete assets through verified reuse for original purpose, remarketing or socially responsible donation.
- We use responsible, zero landfill recycling practices to ensure non-functional redundant/obsolete assets are converted to re-usable components of commodity grade materials that can be reused in new products.
- We prohibit the disposal of end of use electronic equipment or components to any destination which is not approved by our rigorous audit standards.
- We comply with local and regional environmental laws and regulations and use independent third parties to evaluate and certify our compliance.
- We protect the health and safety of everyone working in our Responsible Recycling operations with independent verification.
- Our customer’s data security is paramount; we therefore carry out reliable data sanitization in compliance with NIST SP 800-88 standards in a secure environment, providing full traceability and evidential data destruction and certification for each hard drive received.
- We comply with the requirements of the Basel Convention, relevant European WEEE Directives and the legal requirements of destination countries.
- Our Responsible Recycling operations are independently certified to ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and the Responsible Recycling (R2) standard.
- In addition, our US sites are certified to eStewards standard.
- We commit to protect the brand image and sustainability reputation of all our customers