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BESCHEN, David
BESCHEN, David. (Dubuque, IA-- ). Discarding information in the digital age provided the opportunity needed for GreenDisk, a company designed to handle sensitive data, whose president was David Beschen. Beginning in 1993, the company located in Sammamish, Washington has provided secured, audited disposal of information stored on electronic media including compact discs.
Initially the company was founded to help publishers dispose of unsold packages of obsolete software. Their concern was destroying the intellectual property on the discs. Demand from other clients led to recycling everything from a diskette to the entire PC.
Participants received a "Certificate of Destruction" with a bonded guarantee that the intellectual property and all of the physical materials were disposed of in an environmentally responsible manner. Plastics were recycled by outsourcing its labor to non-profit workshops employing disabled workers.
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Source:
Hogstrom, Erik, "Company Disposes of Information Stored on CDs," Telegraph Herald, August 8, 2004, p. 30