The work undertaken at Maxitech.biz is helping fulfill an essential need for society today. It is no longer acceptable to dump electronic equipment when it is replaced by newer items. A service which can take those items and turn them into opportunities for training of unemployed and a resource for disadvantaged people is of great benefit. Maxitech.biz earns its success. It will be increasingly appreciated by those it serves.

The Rt. Hon.
The Lord Dixon-Smith
Shadow Minister of Environment

Research has shown that fear of sensitive information stored on old PCs being used maliciously is one of the biggest obstacles preventing environmental disposal and re-use of old IT equipment.

In Nov 2004, Maxitech Managing Director Peter Paduh (right) made a presentation to over 50 representatives of city firms at the Environmental Best Practices event hosted the London Stock Exchange and organized by the Corporation of London. The subject was "Secure Data Removal to enable
Re-use of IT Equipment"

At the presentation, he confirmed that sensitive information can be securely removed and 'wiped' from all machines as long as companies use a reliable and trustworthy organisation with high standards of data removal.

Maxitech provides data removal or drive wiping up to the US Department of Defense clearing & sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M. This standard requires all storage and indexing locations on the hard drives within the computer to be overwritten three times with zeros and random characters. This is generally adopted as industry standard.

Faulty Hard Drives that cannot be wiped of data are physically disabled prior to recycling through an authorized process.

Maxitech.biz physical and data security policy forms part of our BS EN ISO 9001:2000 certification.