IT Asset Disposition — Verified, Compared, Connected
The wrong ITAD vendor will cost you more than the equipment is worth.
We verify certifications, compare capabilities, and connect IT leaders with disposition vendors they can actually trust — without taking money from the vendors we cover.
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Does your organization have a documented IT asset disposition policy?
The reality
What happens when ITAD goes wrong.
The closet
Somewhere in your facility there is a storage room with retired laptops stacked against the wall. Nobody is sure how long they've been there. Nobody has checked whether they were wiped. Nobody has a record of the serial numbers. When an auditor or a regulator asks about the disposition of assets in that room, you will not have a good answer. That's not an ITAD problem — it's a documentation problem that ITAD is supposed to prevent.
The audit
Your ITAD vendor gave you certificates of destruction. You filed them. Six months later, during a HIPAA audit, the auditor asks for the chain-of-custody documentation showing how the drives were handled between pickup and destruction. The certificates show the end state. They don't show the middle. Your vendor's contract doesn't mention chain of custody. You are now explaining a gap that your vendor was supposed to close.
The eBay listing
A server that left your data center turns up on eBay. The seller doesn't know what's on the drives. They may not have checked. Your ITAD vendor processed thousands of assets that quarter and can't confirm whether that specific device went through their certified destruction workflow or was sold for parts. The device has your company name stenciled on the side. The drives have not been wiped.
What Compare ITAD does.
We build and maintain a verified directory of ITAD vendors across North America. Every vendor profile is compiled from public sources and cross-referenced against the certification registries that actually matter: SERI's R2 Certified Facility Registry, the e-Stewards Certified Recycler Directory, and the NAID AAA Member Directory. Certifications we can verify are marked verified. Those we cannot are labeled self-reported.
We publish The ITAD Brief — plain-English editorial coverage of compliance, data security, vendor selection, and value recovery. We write for the people who have to make these decisions, not for the vendors who benefit from confusion.
We are not owned by, affiliated with, or paid by any vendor for editorial coverage. Our commercial model is disclosed in full on this page.
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Coverage
Four things that determine whether your ITAD program holds up.
Data Security
Sanitization standards, chain of custody, on-site vs off-site destruction.
Compliance
R2v3, e-Stewards, NAID AAA, HIPAA, GLBA, state e-waste regulations.
Value Recovery
Resale economics, settlement reporting, revenue-share structures.
Environmental
Circular IT, reuse-first programs, ESG reporting, scope-3 emissions.
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$9.36M
Average cost of a data breach involving improperly disposed assets.
68% of organizations have no formal IT asset disposition policy. That gap costs money, creates regulatory exposure, and puts data at risk that should have been destroyed months ago. The directory is free. The assessment is free. The risk of doing nothing is not.