SCS Surplus Equipment Disposal

SCS has implemented a procedure to simplify compliance with the State's Data Elimination from University Equipment and Delivery/Disposal of Electronic Scrap (e-scrap) policies. Please Contact Mike Rhoton or Lori Sage-Karlson at 3-3257 before disposing and/or transfer of any equipment containing memory or integrated circuitry.

Individuals may perform the following steps to dispose of computers or contact electronics@scs.uiuc.edu to take care of it for you for a fee.

1. Read the CITES How To page: http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/security/diskscrub/howto.html
   Obtain the appropriate disk scrubbing software for your platform. For Windows Active Eraser go here:
   http://computing.scs.uiuc.edu/software-support/
2. Boot the appropriate disk scrubbing software.
3. Configure the software to overwrite 1 time.
4. Start the software.
5. When the overwriting process has finished, complete a surplus tag, filling in all the information requested. Please print in large block letters! Labels have been distributed to your group's safety personnel, or you can download one here: http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/security/diskscrub/labels/DataElimdslabel5163.doc
6. Affix the tag to the computer case where appropriate.
7. Deliver to Shipping and Receiving 29a Roger Adams Lab.
8. OBFS may recoup costs for handling or returning machines discovered to be non-compliant with data elimination standards, at the expense of the originator.