I the past when I have had to get rid of a bunch of old media.  I did 
some net searching and found a company that specifically dealt with this 
as well as equipment recycling.

They agreed a price for the amount of tapes that I had; collected them 
and then they were confidentially destroyed.  I believe they were put in 
a furnace.  We were then issued with a certificate of destruction as proof.

This avoided any messing around with degaussing, erasing etc.

James

Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Had a few questions.
> 
> 1. How do you handle it?
> 2. You can send tapes off-site to Iron Mountain, degauss them before you 
> send them off-site, that is one option.
> 3. How much are the machines that "securely" and physically destroy the 
> tape media?
> 4. If they're physically destroyed, how do you deal with the tape shards, 
> how do you dispose of the material?
> 
> How do others on this list deal with bad tapes (with thousands of errors 
> etc) how do you properly dispose of them?
> 
> Justin.
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