Why TAMS

How do you gain from partnering with TAMS?

TAMS treats your IT equipment in compliance with E-waste Regulations. TAMS in-house de-manufacturing procedure coordinates recyclables and partners with professional downstream vendors in order to ensure environmental compliance. When you select TAMS, you can be assured of detailed, auditable Reporting and proper Certification services.

How does proper Asset Management help to guarantee your safety?

We know that you take seriously the protection of your company’s sensitive data. Threats to data security occur from all directions. In order to help you feel safe from these threats, TAMS has implemented state of the art data erasure, facility security measures, and processing techniques that provide the highest degree of data security. TAMS always treats each of your devices as confidential and provide the highest level of security.

What is E-waste ?

At TAMS we define e-waste as anything that plugs in or runs on battery power. It will come as no surprise that our lives have become inundated with devices that fit that definition. Each of these devices have a variety of components that, if introduced to the landfill, will create environmentally hazardous leaching of toxic materials.

What is the environmental impact of disposing electronics into the environment without any precaution?

Electronics are complex devices which are made of a wide variety of materials. Some of the materials, such as lead, nickel, cadmium, and mercury, could pose risks to human health or the environment if mismanaged at their end-of-life. The EPA is very concerned about ensuring the proper management of used electronics and has undertaken important work to increase the collection and responsible recycling of used electronics.

Shipping your Electronic Surplus?

The collection and shipment of your e-waste is a bigger deal than you may realize. The proper packing and handling of these materials can be the difference between maintaining functional integrity of the assets and creating a pile of recycle material. TAMS experienced and trained personnel treat all of your assets as if they have top resale value.

We are concerned with three primary areas when managing surplus electronics:

1. Security of your data stored on electronic media associated with your computer equipment
2. Environmentally responsible and legal disposal/recycling of electronic assets
3. Recovering the highest financial return for your assets at the end of their useful life

• We handle all materials through re-use, recover, and dispose hierarchy.
• We meet customer requirements.
• Management is committed to enhancing customer satisfaction through continual improvement of its services (plan-do-check-act methodology), and maintaining a proper Focus Materials Management Plan through interacting processes.
• We uphold the main principles and intentions of the organization in regards to the relationship of our overall quality, environmental, health & safety performance for our materials, products, and our customers and vendors accordingly.
• We will manage our processes and our employees to become more efficient through proper documentation.
• Our Policy provides the framework for setting and reviewing objectives and goals/targets. Our Policy is documented, implemented, maintained, communicated and understood by all employees.
• The organization pledges to implement, operate, review, and amend (as necessary and appropriate) the systems in place to further enhance overall performance.
• Our main objectives and commitments are to:
  • Properly educate our workforce regarding focus materials
  • Thoroughly educate our workforce regarding the company's policy and objectives
  • Constantly grow our business to recycle more e-Waste to make the community and the world a better place.
• Our specific objectives related to safety, quality, the environment, and security are as follows:

• SAFETY:
  • TAMS will train all of it employees in the proper safety guidelines in order to maintain its safety record of:
    • Less than one man work day lost to on the job injury per year
    • Less than two workers compensation claims per year
    • Zero accident reports in material transport operations

• QUALITY:
  • TAMS production, training, and methods result in less than 2% return rate on items sold through the refurbishment channel
  • Customer satisfaction ratings of at least 4 points on a 1 to 5 scale

• ENVIRONMENTAL:
  • TAMS facility strives for less than .005% of waste (non-electronic) transported to the landfill
  • Zero waste generated at the TAMS facility
  • Air quality testing resulting in particulates 30% below DEQ standards

• SECURITY:
  • Alarm systems independently audited at least twice per year
  • 3^rd party testing and verification of data erasure area
  • All employees undergo a drug testing with zero tolerance for any substance tested positive

This policy will be communicated and made available, in regards to the performance of our systems to: the public, suppliers, customers, contractors and all other interested parties.

Read our full company policy here

Read our code of ethics here