eWaste

At Wacom, we're taking steps to improve our workplace and our products so that they make less of an impact on our natural environment. We encourage our customers to recycle our product packaging and any used electronics, including computers, monitors, and televisions.

Many states have collection programs that recycle electronic components, instead of disposing of them in landfills, so when your Wacom product reaches its time for retirement, we ask that you seek out information on a program near you.

Wacom Technology, as a manufacturer of electronic monitors, is subject to and fully compliant with ewaste legislation in various states. The link below will direct you either to local recycling resources in your state or Wacom's take back program. The take back program is free to consumers and applies to the following states:

• Hawaii
• Indiana
• Maryland (a free shipping box can be obtained by emailing ewaste@wacom.com or calling 1.800.922.6613)
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Missouri
• New Jersey
• New York (SEE more information below)
• North Carolina
• Oklahoma
• Pennsylvania
• South Carolina
• Texas
• Utah
• Virginia
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin

For access to Wacom’s recycling program or more information on collection sites and statewide eWaste recycling programs, visit this link:

http://wacomapi.upsrow.com.

NEW YORK
The New York Electronic Equipment Recycling and Reuse Act require manufacturers of covered electronic equipment to operate recycling programs for their covered electronic devices. Covered electronic equipment includes desktop computers, portable computers, computer monitors, keyboards, mice, small electronic equipment (e.g., MP3 players/iPods, DVD players, cable boxes video game consoles), small-scale servers, facsimile machines (less than 100 pounds), scanners (less than 100 pounds), printers (less than 100 pounds) and televisions.

The act also requires Wacom to accept one piece of electronic waste of any manufacturer’s brand with the purchase of a similar Wacom product.

For recycling of Wacom branded products proceed to:

http://wacomapi.upsrow.com

In New York state, consumers in a municipality with a population of ten thousand or greater where there is no UPS drop-off location can arrange for a UPS pick-up by clicking the 3-Attempt UPS driver indicator or emailing ewaste@wacom.com to arrange a UPS pickup.

If returning another manufacturer’s brand please email ewaste@wacom.com with the name of the manufacturer and model. You will be emailed a shipping label or given instructions for pick–up.

Information on Data Sanitization
Prior to recycling your hardware, you may want to consider the need to remove any data it contains. A number of Federal and/or state laws may affect your need to adequately sanitize data that maybe contained on your hardware device. Please use the resources listed below to assist you in your data sanitization decisions.

Resources:
A number of resources concerning data sanitization are available on the web by performing a search.
Here are links to two resources. The first provides a broad background on data sanitization. The second provides a software download that can be used for data sanitization (one of many available on the web).

The US Department of Commerce through is National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published Guidelines for Media Sanitization (NIST Special Publication 800-88):
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-88/NISTSP800-88_with-errata.pdf

NIST 800-88 publication makes reference to the University of California San Diego’s Center for Magnetic Recording Research (CMRR).  CMRR’s site contains a helpful Q & A, as well as a software download mentioned by NIST Special Publication 800-88:
http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml

For Wacom Technology recycling results visit this link.

For Virginia Annual Report visit this link.