GUIDE · NAID AAA · i-SIGMA · HOW TO READ THE CERTIFICATE
The NAID AAA Certification Field Guide
The buyer’s deep-dive: how the i-SIGMA specification is organized, the complete endorsement list and the facility-vs-mobile designation, Access Individual screening, the receipts and failed-device documentation you should receive, scheduled and unannounced audits, why membership is not certification, and how to verify a claim in the directory.
~16 MIN READ · ANCHORED SECTIONS →
GUIDE · R2v3 · SERI · SCOPE, APPENDICES, DIRECTORY
The R2v3 Certification Field Guide
Why the certificate belongs to a facility address, the ten Core Requirements that matter, the appendix letters A–G and what B actually requires for sanitization and independent verification, Appendix A’s downstream due diligence, the two-stage audit and annual surveillance, and how to verify status in SERI’s directory.
~17 MIN READ · ANCHORED SECTIONS →
GUIDE · IEEE 2883-2022 · STANDARDS
The IEEE 2883-2022 Field Guide
The standard that now holds the sanitization techniques NIST points to: Clear, Purge, and Destruct by storage technology and interface — ATA, SCSI, NVMe, embedded flash, tape, optical — sanitize commands, cryptographic erase, verification, and the six questions to ask a vendor.
~15 MIN READ · ANCHORED SECTIONS →
GUIDE · GDPR · REGULATIONS
The GDPR & IT Asset Disposal Field Guide
What Europe’s privacy law requires when hardware holding personal data retires: storage limitation and integrity-and-confidentiality, the right to erasure, the Article 28 processor terms that bind an ITAD vendor, Article 32 security, the 72-hour breach clock, and the fine tiers — primary text quoted.
~16 MIN READ · ANCHORED SECTIONS →
GUIDE · FERPA · EDUCATION RECORDS
The FERPA Field Guide
Education records, the two express destruction duties in 34 CFR 99.31 and 99.35, the Department of Education’s PTAC data-destruction guidance, where records hide on campus, and the state and HIPAA overlay — for schools, districts, and universities.
~14 MIN READ · ANCHORED SECTIONS →
GUIDE · ISO 9001 / 14001 / 27001 / 45001 · RIOS
The ISO Management-System Standards Field Guide
Four logos, four systems: what ISO 9001, 14001, 27001, and 45001 each certify, how accredited certification and scope work, the RIOS reference (what it certifies and where R2v3 accepts it), the 27001 controls that govern media disposal, and how to read the whole vendor wall.
~15 MIN READ · ANCHORED SECTIONS →
GUIDE · BATTERIES & UPS · LITHIUM-ION / LEAD-ACID
The Battery & UPS Disposition Field Guide
The most dangerous and most regulated object in a retired fleet: what thermal runaway is, what EPA’s universal waste rules require, how 49 CFR 173.185 governs shipping (and why damaged cells never fly), the 2026 state-of-charge rules, the separate lead-acid UPS stream, and where black mass goes now that Washington calls it strategic.
~19 MIN READ · ANCHORED SECTIONS →
GUIDE · CRITICAL MINERALS · URBAN MINING / DPA / BIS
The Critical Minerals Recovery Field Guide
What’s inside retired IT hardware and why Washington wants it back — the China and Taiwan chokepoints (they’re different), the 2023–2026 export-control timeline, the Defense Production Act response, how recovery physically works from shredder to refinery, the honest urban-mining math, and the enterprise ITAD playbook.
~18 MIN READ · ANCHORED SECTIONS →
GUIDE · VENDOR DUE DILIGENCE · CREDENTIALS
ITAD Vendor Due Diligence: Vet a Vendor & Read the Credentials
How to vet any ITAD vendor on evidence, not adjectives — independent certification, insurance, chain of custody, reporting — then a credential decoder explaining what R2v3, RIOS, NAID AAA, the state permit, and the sanitization standards each actually prove.
~22 MIN READ · ANCHORED SECTIONS →
