Service

IT Asset Disposition — Rhode Island

Home turf: same-week scheduling for most Rhode Island decommissions and cleanouts, no travel minimums anywhere in the state.

The process

Scoping call
On-site serialized intake
Erasure reports + settlement

Service area

Statewide, no pickup minimum.

Rhode Island rules for old computers and the data on them

Computers, monitors and TVs cannot go in the trash in Rhode Island. The free state program is for households and schools, not businesses, and two state laws require a business to destroy the personal information on equipment it gets rid of.

Throwing it away

Since January 31, 2009, no one may throw away a desktop or laptop computer, a monitor, a tablet, or a TV or video display over 9 inches with a circuit board. It has to be recycled. (R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-24.10-5)
Landfills and transfer stations may not accept those devices for disposal. (§ 23-24.10-5)
The law's definition of a computer leaves out keyboards, mice, cables, and servers marketed to professional users. (§ 23-24.10-3)

Free recycling

Manufacturers pay for a statewide program that takes covered devices free from households and K-12 schools. (§ 23-24.10-11)
Businesses are not covered by that program and arrange and pay for their own electronics recycling. (RI DEM)
At the Resource Recovery Corporation, businesses and non-profits can drop off fewer than 15 complete systems for a fee; larger amounts go to a commercial e-waste recycler. (RIRRC)

Rules for businesses

Business electronics are managed as hazardous or universal waste. The state's hazardous waste rules list used electronics as a universal waste from the day they are discarded. (250-RICR-140-10-1)
Anyone who collects or recycles covered devices in Rhode Island must register with RI DEM every year. (§ 23-24.10-10.1)

The data on it

Any business or agency holding a Rhode Island resident's personal information must destroy it securely, in any medium, for example by shredding or erasing, and may not keep it longer than reasonably needed. (R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-49.3-2)
A second law requires a business to shred, erase, or otherwise make unreadable the customer personal information it no longer keeps. (§ 6-52-2)
Under that law each record disposed of improperly is a separate violation, with a civil penalty of $500 each up to $50,000, and harmed customers can sue. (§ 6-52-3)
It does not apply to a business that contracts with another business to destroy the information and keeps evidence of that contract. The first law has no such exemption. (§ 6-52-4)

A plain-language summary with the official source for each point, checked September 2026. It is not legal advice. Every drive we take in is erased to NIST 800-88, and the erasure report is yours on request.

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