Secure & Sustainable IT Disposal for Rhode Island
Commercial Electronics Recycling, ITAD & Shredding Services in RI
Data Recycling of New England provides commercial electronics recycling, secure paper shredding, on-site hard drive shredding, and IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) services for businesses, educational institutions, municipalities, healthcare providers, and organizations of all sizes across Rhode Island.
Serving Businesses and Organizations Statewide
Data Recycling of New England, your New England provider, delivers reliable and secure computer recycling, comprehensive ITAD, and shredding services throughout Rhode Island. With our headquarters in Assonet, MA, just minutes from Tiverton, RI, we are positioned to serve Rhode Island businesses quickly, and our local presence ensures responsive collection and processing for the computer and electronics recycling needs of businesses across the state. Choose a regional provider you can trust for your Rhode Island computer recycling requirements. Learn more about our transparent recycling process and computer recycling process.
Who We Serve
Following our vision and mission, we aim to make electronic recycling solutions obtainable for all industries in Rhode Island, with services tailored to your specific needs.
Educational Institutions
We handle electronic recycling and data destruction for schools across Rhode Island. Keep student and staff data safe while reducing e-waste in an eco-friendly way.
Corporate Solutions
We provide secure electronic recycling, data destruction, and document shredding services to help RI businesses maintain compliance with privacy regulations and reduce e-waste. Our certified hard drive shredding ensures that sensitive information is completely destroyed
Healthcare Facilities
We offer HIPAA-compliant information destruction services, including secure document shredding and data sanitization for old hard drives, ensuring your patient data is fully protected.
Municipal Services
We work with many towns in Rhode Island offering electronic recycling and Appliance Recycling through pickup at transfer stations as well as house to house options. We securely collect and recycle e-waste, ensuring eco-friendly disposal for your community.
Non-Profit Organizations
Host a fundraising collection event to raise money by encouraging your community to recycle electronics. We provide secure e-waste recycling, shredding, and data destruction for your cause.
Individuals
Rhode Island residents can also securely dispose of old electronics and hard drives. We ensure data destruction and eco-friendly recycling for individuals who want to protect their personal information. Residents can conveniently schedule a drop-off at our facility in Assonet, MA, or participate in our community collection events.
Our Commercial Services in Rhode Island:
Electronics Recycling
Responsible and secure recycling for all types of commercial electronics generated by Rhode Island businesses.
Hard Drive & Media Shredding
Certified on-site and off-site data destruction services to protect sensitive business information throughout Rhode Island.
Collection Events
Convenient e-waste collection services for businesses and organizations, promoting responsible recycling and fundraising for your nonprofit.
Reporting / Certificates
Certificates of Destruction for your security needs, plus itemized reporting.
Paper Shredding & Document Destruction
Affordable off-site shredding for business documents, with bundled discounts when combined with electronics recycling pickups across Rhode Island.
Secure Pickup Services
Reliable and secure pickup services for your electronic waste, ensuring hassle-free disposal.
Statewide Coverage in Rhode Island:
We serve businesses, schools, municipalities and organizations in every city and town in Rhode Island. From the commercial core in Providence and the office parks along the Route 2 corridor in Warwick and East Greenwich, to Quonset Business Park in North Kingstown, the mill properties in Woonsocket and Pawtucket, and the hospitality and defense employers around Newport.
Rhode Island’s size works in your favour. Nearly every address in the state sits inside an hour of our facility, so a single-office pickup does not have to wait for us to build a route around it.
We cover all five counties — Providence, Kent, Washington, Newport and Bristol — including Cranston, East Providence, Central Falls, Johnston, North Providence, Smithfield, Lincoln, Cumberland, West Warwick, Coventry, Barrington, Bristol, Warren, Middletown, Portsmouth, Westerly, South Kingstown, North Kingstown and Narragansett.
Working in a particular part of the state? See our Providence area page for coverage across greater Providence, or our Warwick page for Kent County.
Rhode Island Businesses: Understand Your E-Waste Responsibilities
Rhode Island treats business electronics differently from household electronics, and the difference catches a lot of companies out.
The state’s manufacturer-financed take-back program, created under the Electronic Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling Act (R.I.G.L. Chapter 23-24.10), covers households and K-12 schools. It does not cover businesses. Commercial generators have to make their own arrangements for retired equipment and manage it under the applicable hazardous or universal waste rules.
At the same time, covered electronics — televisions, monitors, CPUs, laptops and similar devices — have been banned from disposal at the Central Landfill since February 1, 2009. A business can neither throw them out nor hand them to the state program.
Separately, Rhode Island’s Identity Theft Protection Act of 2015 requires personal information to be destroyed in a secure manner, expressly including shredding, pulverization, incineration or erasure, once it is no longer reasonably needed (R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-49.3-2). That obligation follows the data onto the drives inside the equipment you are retiring.
Businesses with 50 or more employees also fall under Rhode Island’s commercial recycling rules and file annual recycling reports with RIDEM.
We handle the disposal side of all of it, and provide the Certificate of Destruction and serial-level reporting that shows what happened to each asset.
Serving Your Region in Rhode Island
Rhode Island sits at the centre of our service area, and we are based just over the line in southeastern Massachusetts. We also provide secure electronics recycling, ITAD and shredding services across the rest of New England. To view our full regional coverage, including nearby states, visit our New England Service Area Page.
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FAQ - Rhode Island
Why is computer and electronics recycling important in Rhode Island?
Recycling keeps harmful materials out of the environment and our water, and in Rhode Island it is also a legal requirement — the state has a landfill ban on covered electronics. Read our RI E-Waste Ban Guide for what it means for a business.
What electronics are banned from disposal in Rhode Island landfills?
Covered electronic products — televisions, computer monitors, CPUs, laptops and similar devices with screens over nine inches — have been banned from disposal at the Central Landfill since February 1, 2009. Putting them in a dumpster is not a legal option for a Rhode Island business.
Does Rhode Island’s state e-waste program cover my business?
No, and this is the point most companies miss. The manufacturer-financed program created by the Electronic Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling Act covers households and K-12 schools only. Businesses are excluded and must arrange their own disposal, which is exactly what we do.
What does Rhode Island law require for destroying data?
The Identity Theft Protection Act of 2015 (R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-49.3-2) requires that personal information be destroyed in a secure manner, naming shredding, pulverization, incineration and erasure, once it is no longer reasonably needed. Deleting files or reformatting a drive does not meet that bar. Our hard drive and media shredding does, and comes with documentation.
Where can Rhode Island businesses recycle old computers and electronics?
With us. We pick up from your site anywhere in the state, handle data destruction and recycling, and return a Certificate of Destruction. There is no need to transport equipment yourself or find a drop-off that accepts commercial volumes.
What happens to my electronics after recycling?
We follow a reuse-first approach: usable equipment is tested and resold wherever possible, which is what funds our buy-back pricing. Non-reusable items are recycled through certified downstream partners for proper material recovery. Nothing covered by the landfill ban is landfilled. Learn more about us and our process.
Do you offer commercial e-waste pickup in Rhode Island?
Yes. We run scheduled pickups for businesses, schools, hospitals and municipalities right across Rhode Island, one-time or ongoing, from a single pallet to a full office or data centre decommission. We supply the labour, packaging and transport.
What types of electronics do you recycle for Rhode Island businesses?
We recycle a wide range of equipment, including:
- Computers, laptops and servers
- Hard drives and storage devices
- Monitors, printers and office equipment
- Networking equipment and cables
- Phones, tablets and small electronics
- UPS units, telecom gear and most other IT hardware
See our electronics recycling and ITAD page for the full picture.
What data destruction methods do you use?
Secure overwriting or physical shredding, matched to the media type and following NIST SP 800-88. Solid state and flash media are physically destroyed rather than degaussed, because magnetic erasure does not work on flash.
Do you offer on-site hard drive shredding in Rhode Island?
Yes. Our mobile shredding truck comes to your Rhode Island facility, destroys the drives while your staff watch, and the serial report is generated and printed before we leave. We also offer off-site shredding at our secure facility if you would rather not host the work. See on-site hard drive shredding.
Is paper shredding available for Rhode Island businesses?
Yes. Paper shredding and document destruction can be scheduled on its own or combined with an equipment pickup on the same visit.
Do you recycle electronics in my Rhode Island town?
Almost certainly. We cover all five counties and all 39 cities and towns, from Woonsocket down to Westerly and out to Newport and Block Island. If you are unsure, ask — the state is small enough that we rarely have to say no.
Can you pick up from multiple locations in different towns?
Yes. Multi-site pickups can be scheduled together and reported either per location or consolidated, whichever way you need to account for the assets.
Accepted Electronics & IT Equipment
- TVs - Flat Screen & CRT
- Monitors - Flat Screen & CRT
- Computers
- Servers
- Network Switches
- Phones
- Projectors
- Large office computer equipment
- Medical Equipment
- Back up Batteries
- Laptops
- Printers
- Fax machines
- CD-roms
- DVD-roms
- VCR’s
- Audio Equipment
- Video Games
- Disc Drives
- Modems
- Cards
- Keyboards
- Computer Mice
- Electronic Wires & Plugs
- PC Speakers
- Recording, Surveillance or Camera Equipment
- Digital Cameras
- Cell Phones & Accessories
- Parts & Pieces of Computers
- Regulated and Non-regulated Appliances: Air Conditioners, Refrigerators, Stoves, Microwaves, Mini-refrigerators and Coolers
Get a Free Quote for Commercial Services Anywhere in Rhode Island:
Ready to discuss your commercial electronics recycling, ITAD, or shredding needs throughout Rhode Island? Contact Data Recycling of New England today for a free, no-obligation quote. For inquiries call us at (508)822-2054, email us at info@datarecyclingne.com or fill out our contact form below.