[dspillett]

>* Devices that do not pass this wiping procedure are physically destroyed on-premise*

If you are going to go to that much effort why not physically destroy the drive anyway? You might still want to test them to flag up problems in your process, but if you have the facility locally why not use it for all drives instead of paying an external party to do some of them?

[detaro]

They don't say that the drives are all destroyed by the external parties. And even if they are, I could imagine that proper recycling is easier if you have the full drives and not a shredded mixture of all the materials in it.