The definition of “Information Bearing Media” is

Any medium on which information is recorded, the final disposition of which shall be addressed in an information destruction policy. The type of media bears no impact on the type of business record or the sensitivity of the information; however, the type of media does play a very important role in determining the proper method of secure disposal to be used to achieve secure destruction.

Information Bearing Media comes in lots of forms:

Paper, Hard drives, Memory Cards, USB Devices, Mobile Phones, Tablets, laptops etc

All Information Bearing Media needs to be destroyed at the end of it’s life, contact Secure Data Recycling to understand more about the hidden dangers.