Blue Revive provides IT asset disposition for organizations across Mississippi, covering scheduled collection, serialized intake, data sanitization or destruction, resale evaluation, and documented material recovery. Every engagement closes with documentation the client can put in front of an auditor. Contact us for a Mississippi quote.
The Mississippi Market
Mississippi’s enterprise IT is spread across a few anchor markets. Jackson carries state government, the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and a utility headquarters in Entergy Mississippi. The Gulf Coast adds Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Keesler Air Force Base and the Naval Construction Battalion Center, the ports of Gulfport and Pascagoula, and tourism and resort operations. NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Hancock County adds rocket engine testing. North Mississippi and the Golden Triangle add Toyota in Blue Springs and PACCAR in Lowndes County, Nissan sits in Canton north of Jackson, and universities in Starkville, Oxford, Hattiesburg, and Jackson add institutional volume. A large data center campus under development in Madison County adds a hyperscale facility to the state’s estate.
Much of what retires here holds defense, health, or manufacturing data, and many sites sit in smaller communities, so multi-site coordination matters.
Mississippi IT Disposal and Data Security Requirements
Verify all statutory and rule text with counsel before relying on any summary.
Federal requirements
Two federal layers apply in every state regardless of what the state does.
The data-security layer reaches most organizations through at least one framework. The FTC Disposal Rule at 16 CFR Part 682 governs consumer report information. The GLBA Safeguards Rule at 16 CFR Part 314 reaches financial institutions and the service providers they engage. The HIPAA Security Rule addresses media disposal and reuse at 45 CFR 164.310(d)(2) for covered entities and business associates. PCI DSS requires media holding cardholder data to be rendered unrecoverable. NIST Special Publication 800-88 Revision 1 supplies the Clear, Purge, and Destroy definitions used to specify a sanitization outcome, and the method has to suit the media technology, since techniques valid for magnetic drives are not automatically valid for flash storage.
The waste layer applies to the physical material and is summarized in the state section below.
Mississippi electronics disposal rules
Mississippi has no state electronics recycling program law and no statewide e-waste disposal ban. The state’s electronics program is informational, and its one mandate reaches state agencies only.
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality runs an informational electronic waste program that educates residents, businesses, and local governments on end-of-life electronics. A 2013 law requires state agencies to use recyclers that meet accredited recycling standards when disposing of electronic assets, effective July 1, 2014, and directs the department to maintain a directory of them. That requirement applies to state agencies, not private businesses.
For business electronics, the operative rules are federal and hazardous waste rules, and a business’s obligations depend on its hazardous waste generator status. Components exhibiting hazardous characteristics are regulated under RCRA. Batteries, lamps, and mercury-containing devices may be managed under the universal waste rule at 40 CFR Part 273. Cathode ray tube displays fall under 40 CFR 261.39. Where a determination is required, EPA Method 1311 is the test. Lithium-bearing equipment is regulated in transport under UN3480 and UN3481. With no state channel at any size, Mississippi organizations rely on a commercial recycler, and the vendor’s documentation is the compliance record.
Mississippi data and privacy requirements
Mississippi has not enacted a comprehensive consumer privacy statute, and the comprehensive bills introduced in 2025 have not passed. The state’s data security rule is the breach notification statute at Miss. Code Ann. section 75-24-29, which the Attorney General enforces and which treats unauthorized acquisition of unencrypted electronic media containing personal information as a reportable breach. Mississippi has no general data disposal statute for private businesses, so disposal obligations come mainly from federal frameworks and sector rules. Insurance licensees also carry the Insurance Data Security Law at section 83-5-801 and following. Healthcare operations carry HIPAA Security Rule obligations at 45 CFR 164.310(d)(2), and financial institutions and their service providers carry GLBA Safeguards Rule obligations. Shipbuilders and defense suppliers along the Gulf Coast should separately confirm what their contracts require for media disposition, including DFARS safeguarding requirements referencing NIST SP 800-171 and the CMMC program where controlled unclassified information is involved. Confirm applicability with counsel and your contracting officer.
What Blue Revive Handles
Servers and storage: Rack and blade servers, SAN and NAS arrays, JBOD shelves, loose drives
Network and telecom: Switches, routers, firewalls, optics, structured cabling, VoIP hardware
End-user devices: Laptops, desktops, thin clients, tablets, mobile phones, monitors
Data-bearing media: HDDs, SSDs, NVMe, LTO and other tape, optical media, removable flash
Facility and power: UPS systems and battery strings, PDUs, rack enclosures, KVM hardware
Peripherals and specialty: Printers and multifunction devices, point of sale terminals, kiosks, lab equipment
Mississippi Coverage
Jackson and the Capital Region: State government, academic medicine, utilities, banking, university
Gulf Coast: Shipbuilding, military installations, port operations, tourism and resorts
Stennis Space Center and Hancock County: Aerospace, rocket engine testing, federal research
North Mississippi and the Golden Triangle: Automotive manufacturing, engine assembly, university research
Canton and Madison County: Automotive manufacturing, data centers, healthcare
Oxford and north Mississippi: University, advanced manufacturing, healthcare
Hattiesburg and south Mississippi: University, healthcare, polymer research
Blue Revive operates from Buford, Georgia, and serves Mississippi as scheduled project work, with multiple sites consolidated into a single mobilization where practical. Site access requirements, decommissioning windows, and any fixed deadline such as a lease end or contractual return date should come into the first conversation, since those usually drive the schedule more than the physical work does. Contact us to scope a Mississippi engagement.
Who We Serve
Shipbuilding and defense contractors, aerospace and federal research operations, automotive and heavy equipment manufacturers, data center operators, healthcare systems and academic medical centers, utilities and energy operators, port and logistics operators, resort and hospitality operators, universities and districts, state and municipal agencies, and managed service providers.
Chain of Custody and Documentation
Documentation is the deliverable that survives the engagement. Blue Revive builds a serialized record from collection forward: asset counts and identifiers captured at pickup, reconciliation at receiving against what was manifested, sanitization or destruction recorded per unit for data-bearing media, and disposition recorded per unit at the end.
Clients receive certificates covering destruction and recycling, an itemized asset report, and documentation of downstream handling. Where regulated components are separated, associated handling records are retained. Recycling tonnage and diversion figures are available in a format usable for ESG reporting frameworks including GRI, SASB, CDP, and TCFD where a client reports against them. Documentation supports an audit position. It does not by itself guarantee a compliance outcome.
How the Process Works
Scope and inventory. Define asset types, counts, locations, data-bearing media, and the regulatory or contractual constraints that apply.
Schedule and collect. Coordinate site access, decommissioning windows, packing, and transport, capturing asset identifiers at the point of collection.
Receive and reconcile. Check intake against the collection manifest and resolve discrepancies before processing.
Sanitize or destroy. Process data-bearing media to the agreed outcome, referencing the Clear, Purge, and Destroy definitions in NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1.
Recover value. Evaluate assets with market value for resale and dismantle the remainder for controlled material recovery, separating regulated components.
Document and report. Issue certificates of destruction and recycling, itemized asset reporting, and downstream handling records.
Mississippi ITAD Questions
Does Mississippi have an e-waste law?
Not a program law or a disposal ban. Mississippi’s Department of Environmental Quality runs an informational program, and a 2013 law requires state agencies to use recyclers that meet accredited recycling standards for their electronic assets. Federal rules apply in full, including RCRA characterization, universal waste standards at 40 CFR Part 273, the CRT rule at 40 CFR 261.39, and lithium transport requirements under UN3480 and UN3481.
Is there a state program a Mississippi business can use?
No. The state’s electronics activity is educational, and its one mandate covers state agencies. Businesses of every size need a commercial recycler, which makes vendor documentation the whole of the compliance record.
What matters most when we retire drives that held personal information?
Mississippi’s breach notification statute, Miss. Code Ann. section 75-24-29, treats unauthorized acquisition of unencrypted media containing personal information as a reportable breach, so a retired drive that leaves your custody unsanitized creates exposure. Specify the sanitization outcome using the Clear, Purge, and Destroy definitions in NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1 and retain documentation demonstrating it. Confirm the specifics with counsel.
We are a shipyard supplier on the Gulf Coast. What should we specify?
Start with your prime contractor and contracting officer, since contract clauses set the required outcome. Then specify the method using the Clear, Purge, and Destroy definitions in NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1, the point at which it must happen, and the evidence format your reporting needs. Equipment that may have processed classified information is outside commercial scope and goes through your security officer’s prescribed channel.
Contact Blue Revive for Mississippi ITAD
Contact us: https://www.bluerevive.co/contact
Office: 4540 Atwater CT, STE 107, Buford, GA 30518
To scope a Mississippi IT asset disposition engagement, contact us.
