DRM

At Direct Resource Management, waste prevention, electronics recycling, IT asset disposition, and secure data destruction are our passion. Whether you’re a corporate, small business, government or residential client, it’s almost impossible to expect you to know all the ins and outs of waste prevention and electronics recycling when you’ve got more important goals to worry about. As specialists who take pride in knowing every detail of the process, our mission is to provide you with waste prevention, electronics recycling, IT asset disposition, and secure data destruction services to the highest standard of security, ethics and cost-efficiency possible. We’re here to take care of the entire recycling process so you can stay on track and focus on what you do best.

See why our portfolio of satisfied clients keeps growing – call us today to set up a consultation and we’ll put together a plan specific to your industry or company. No matter what your needs are, our well-established system can cover them all, including services like:

• Both source reduction and reuse are waste management techniques for the non- production or unmaking of waste. In other words, waste reduction of this type can be defined as the reduction, avoidance or elimination of the generation of solid wastes. Since source reduction and reuse both result in the prevention of waste in the first place, the amount of waste which must composted, recycled, landfilled, etc. is reduced. Waste reduction of this type should be given the highest priority in solid waste management plans, because it reduces the demand placed on the management system.
• We’re certified for your peace of mind. As an ISO 14001 and R2 certified electronics recycler, you can rest assured knowing your old technology won’t end up in landfills or simply sent off to another country or offloaded on a third-world country.
• We do it efficiently. By having us handle the entire electronics recycling process, you can reduce your overhead and save on costs.
• Security is crucial. We 100% guarantee your sensitive proprietary data and consumer information will be permanently removed from storage devices. We even send sample spot checks to a specialist third party data recovery firm to ensure data has been irreversibly wiped.
• We fully comply with industry-specific regulations, like the standards of DOD 52220.22-M and NIST 800.88, using the latest sanitization and data destruction methods.

Why choose Direct Resource Management?

DRM provides safe, secure and reliable electronics recycling solutions that produce the greatest benefit to the environment while minimizing the financial impact for our customers, including corporate clients, businesses, government clients, OEMs and individuals.Our team of industry leaders, innovators and experts has developed systems and solutions to ensure peace of mind, eliminate the complexity of dealing with multiple vendors and boost your bottom line.

• 100% Ethical & Legal Recycling Solutions
• You’ll Have Peace Of Mind With DRM’s Guaranteed Security Measures!
• Take-Back Program To Drastically Reduce Recycling Costs!

Why You Should Choose Us

Corporate electronics recycling can be a logistical nightmare for any company – data destruction security, complex regulations, different categories of electronics, and ethical accountability are just some of the major headaches that burden a corporation like yours. Trying to do it all yourself would simply be inefficient, so we’re here to take the burden off your shoulders by specializing in covering every corporate electronics recycling service you need. Our industry-leading team of experts will put together a 100% secure, legally safe, and ethical plan that will reduce your overhead and costs, while also bringing money back to you by recovering as much revenue as possible from your old technology. Our passion is electronics recycling – call us today and we’ll take care of all the details every step of the way, so your company can focus on doing what you do best.

Corporate-level clients expect and deserve professional, responsive customer service, which is why we always assign you a dedicated project manager right from the start to answer all of your questions and provide regular status updates for your project. You can rest assured knowing that when you call our office, we’ll always answer your questions immediately when possible, or at latest within the same business day.

Our team of experts knows exactly how to meet each of your recycling needs and boost your bottom line with our full range of solutions:

• Our Take-Back Program is specially designed for corporations to reduce your recycling costs and maximize savings by having us provide all of the recycling, repackaging and remarketing services
• Rest assured knowing that we guarantee your corporate data and consumer information is protected with a start-to-finish security program that fully complies with the standards of DOD 5220.22-M and NIST 800.88, using the latest sanitization and data destruction methods
• Strict security measures ensure that no information can be recovered from any hard drive we process
• We regularly send processed sample units to a data recovery firm to confirm that data has been wiped to the highest of standards
• All services are administered in secure, fully enclosed facilities that are monitored through surveillance networks
• Security employees are all thoroughly screened in background and drug screening tests
• Ethics are paramount to us – we’re proud to be an ISO 14001 and R2 certified electronics recycler, which means none of your electronics end up in a landfill or illegally exported to another country or become a burden to a third-world country

Our experts have done it all, so you can trust us to cover every angle of your corporate electronics recycling project. We know you’ve got a lot at stake – your money, your reputation, and your peace of mind. Call us today to join the robust portfolio of corporate clients that already trusts us to responsibly and efficiently perform critically important data removal and technology recycling.

The Best Electronics Recycling for Small Businesses

Every company knows the headache of old technology piling up as it’s being replaced, but what most companies don’t realize is that there’s a simple solution that can quickly and efficiently remove these old electronics and improve the company’s bottom line – electronics recycling for small businesses. Our process of electronics recycling for small businesses at Direct Resource Management not only ethically disposes of e-waste for the business, it also can help your bottom line through resale of old technology.Helping businesses remove old electronics is our specialty, as we offer a full set of services that can address all of your recycling needs start-to-finish. Call us today to learn more about how our services can help make your life easy and financially benefit your company.

Data destruction services designed especially for small businesses

Nowadays, you can’t simply dump your old computers since they contain sensitive data about your company, clients, or employees – or all three!Simply using your computer’s basic deletion functions does not guarantee complete destruction of this sensitive data – even if you delete every file, there are still methods that can enable a resourceful thief to steal your data. That’s precisely why we’ve developed a completely foolproof security program that follows the strict standards of the Department of Defense (DOD 5220.22-M) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST 800.88).Not only are all materials processed and inventoried in our secure facilities with employees who have undergone background checks, we even send samples of our processed devices to a third party firm that specializes in data recovery, to verify that they’ve examined and concluded that they have no way to recover data from the devices.Whether you have private employee information or client data that you can’t afford to expose to criminals, you can rest assured that when you hand off your old electronics to us for processing, that data will never fall into the wrong hands.No matter what electronics you need to recycle, there’s no one better to safely, efficiently, and privately recycle old electronics for your business. Call us today and we’ll immediately take the burden off your shoulders for any large quantity of old electronics.

Electronics Recycling Laws Cover More Than Just Computers
While computers contain a large quantity of hazardous materials like lead, they aren’t the only electronics equipment that must be responsibly disposed of. Cell phones, smart phones, and mobile phones in general all contain many chemicals that can end up in groundwater systems when sent to landfills, which is precisely why they are “considered hazardous waste” in the state of California.Because of the wide array of electronic devices that should be recycled to protect our environment, Direct Resource Management accepts everything from computers to cell phones and IT equipment like routers and modems.

No matter what electronics you’re considering recycling, make sure you do it ethically and efficiently by calling us and having us handle the process for you from start to finish. We’ll be more than happy to pick up any large amounts of electronics for free, or if you’ve just got one or a few individual items, we welcome you to drop them off at our facilities located conveniently in the middle of the San Francisco Bay Area, in San Leandro.

Electronics Recycling for Residential Consumers

In an era increasingly defined by computers, mobile phones, tablets, and other personal electronic devices, many people are beginning to realize that electronics recycling for Residential cosumers is a basic necessity. But while this need is becoming more and more difficult to ignore in our daily lives, electronics recycling for residential households is still a relatively unclear process.

While you may simply be hoping to get rid of old electronics that are cluttering your household, it’s also important to note that there are very real legal regulations in place that compel you to avoid dumping many electronics in the trash to be sent to landfills. For example, the state of California bans electronic waste like cell phones from being sent to landfills and also bans sending e-waste abroad to other countries to use in their landfills.These types of regulations may seem like an unwelcome burden to you, but they’re designed in your best interest and to protect the community and our society as a whole. Many electronics like computers and cell phones contain hazardous materials like lead, which can find its way into not just ground soil but also our water supplies. Responsibly recycling your electronics means doing your part in keeping our environment and our health safe from these dangers.

The Environment and Ethics of Electronics Recycling
Along the same lines, the growing problem of e-waste is having a very real impact on our world from an environmental and ethical point of view. Mercury, lead, copper and cadmium are just some of the harmful chemicals that are fine when performing important functions in our electronics, but become a very real hazard to the environment when they leak into surrounding soil and water supplies. Thesechemicals come from everything from TVs, computers, laptops, LCD screens, mobile phones, tablets, batteries and more – and many of these electronics don’t even need to be thrown away, they can be recycled!

In fact, the manufacturing process for a single computer and monitor involves 539 pounds of fossil fuel, 48 pounds of chemicals, and 1.5 tons of water. Imagine all of the resources we could be saving by simply reusing these devices instead of making everyone buy a brand new one! In an era and state where water shortages are becoming the norm and ways to reduce fuel consumption are a top priority, the reduction of e-waste through electronics recycling is an ethical imperative for us to protect our natural resources.While environmental considerations are of the utmost importance, there’s also a huge moral and ethical stake in electronics recycling. Wealthier nations like the United States have long been wrapped in the controversy of sending electronic waste to landfills in poorer nations. What’s the problem with the United States handing over electronic waste to third world countries if they’re happy to take them? Laborers in these landfills smash, crack, melt and cook the electronics to try to salvage all kinds of materials from gold to plastics, but in the process they release all kinds of hazardous chemicals in a completely uncontrolled way. Not only does this affect the surrounding environment, but real human beings. A study published by Environmental Health Perspectives found children in the Chinese village of Guiyu – where many people work in electronics landfills – had lead levels 50% higher than those in surrounding villages and far higher than safety limits set by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As many of you probably already know, lead is known to cause brain damage.