Shopping for a PC or Smart Phone? Chances are that as soon as you part with the cash for a new smartphone or 9.7-inch tablet or 4K / 3D / LED flatscreen television, a tiny part of your brain is already plotting its disposal?

Thanks to rapid changes in technology, a shifting media landscape, and falling prices, discarded electronics have become the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. In the US, they threw away $16 billion of circuit boards, transistors, and hard drives, also known as e-waste every year.

The numbers are smaller in the UK, but the point is the same.

When you buy a new electronic device for Christmas, take a little time to think what you are going to do with the old one and the data that is stored within it.

For more advice contact the experts at Secure Data Recycling

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