[Bedon292]

You can have principles you desire to follow but still legally have to follow NIST 800-88. Can even add feedback to future iterations of the publication and attempt to get it changed in the future. Doesn't change the current requirement though.

And running a "shred" with multiple passes requires hardware and electricity to run, which needs to be maintained and scaled to such a level that the process could be done within a reasonable timeframe. Large drives these days could take multiple days each to run plus verification time. And now scale that to thousands of drives. That's a lot of additional hardware and electricity. Where recycling the shredded drive feels more eco friendly. But don't have any actual numbers to support that. Would definitely be interested in actual numbers and how things would play out big picture.