Proof the data's gone. No invoice.

Bayou Asset Renewal collects retired computers, servers and storage across Northwest Louisiana. Every drive is erased to NIST SP 800-88 or physically destroyed, and you get a serialized certificate you can hand an auditor. There is no charge — we are paid out of whatever the hardware is still worth.

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Shreveport · Bossier City · Caddo & Bossier Parishes · Northwest Louisiana

What we do

Four steps, and the third one is the product

Most people think they're hiring someone to haul equipment away. What they're actually buying is the document that proves the data is gone — because the liability for that data stays with them until it is.

Collect

Scheduled pickup against a signed manifest. Units travel whole, drives installed — no gap where something can go missing.

Record

Every device logged on receipt: serial, media type, source system, date, receiving signature. This is the anchor everything reconciles to.

Sanitize

Erased to NIST SP 800-88 with a per-device certificate, or physically destroyed — on your site, while you watch, if you prefer.

Recover

Working equipment is tested, graded and resold; the rest is recycled responsibly. Those proceeds are what pay for the service, which is why there is no invoice.

What you receive

A certificate that holds up when someone checks

Plenty of vendors hand over a single-page letter saying "your equipment was destroyed." That proves nothing about any particular drive. Ours is serialized, line by line, and reconciles against your own decommissioning list without manual matching.

Certificate of Destruction

SAMPLE — format only

Certificate no.: BAR-2026-0418
Date of destruction: 2026-09-18
Location: Shreveport, LA
Devices in batch: 42
Standard applied: NIST SP 800-88r1

Asset tag	Serial	Media	Source system	Received	Method	Disposition
BAR-11627	ZCT0K8QX	HDD 1 TB SATA	OptiPlex 5090	2026-09-14	800-88 Purge	Verified erased
BAR-11628	S6PWNJ0T413905	SSD 512 GB NVMe	Latitude 5420	2026-09-14	800-88 Destroy	Shredded, witnessed
BAR-11629	WD-WX21DA1K7PR9	HDD 2 TB SAS	PowerEdge R440	2026-09-14	800-88 Purge	Verified erased
BAR-11630	192639802114	SSD 256 GB SATA	ThinkPad T14	2026-09-15	800-88 Destroy	Shredded, witnessed

Every certificate carries the client, date, method with its NIST reference, item count, destruction location, timestamped chain of custody with signed handoffs, and the certifying operator's signature. Where a client requires sworn documentation, we have it notarized.

Where we stand today

We'd rather tell you than have you find out

Bayou Asset Renewal is a new Louisiana company built on years of hands-on practice — teardown, testing, grading and resale of retired equipment. Here is exactly what is in place now and what is not. If you need something we can't defensibly deliver, we'll say so.

Louisiana LLCRegistered with the Secretary of State, 2026In place

Hands-on teardown, testing and gradingYears of practice in exactly this work, predating the companyIn place

Established resale channelsActive seller accounts with trading historyIn place

NIST SP 800-88 software erasureLicensed data erasure with per-device certificatesIn place

On-site physical destructionDrive destruction at your location, witnessedIn place

Serialized chain of custodyPer-device logging from pickup through final dispositionIn place

General liability insuranceBound before any engagement that requires a certificate of insuranceOn request

$5M cyber liability insuranceIn place before any engagement involving regulated dataOn request

R2v3 certificationFacility certification for electronics recycling — targeted for year twoNot yet

NAID AAA certificationSpecialist data destruction certification — targeted for year twoNot yet

What it costs. Nothing. Collection, data destruction, certificates and reporting carry no fee, and we keep the proceeds from whatever still has resale value. That is the whole arrangement, stated plainly so there is no question about it later.

The one exception: a load that is overwhelmingly low-value material — CRT monitors, older printers, bulk cabling — costs more to process than it returns. We will tell you that before pickup and quote it rather than quietly absorb it.

What our certifications mean in practice. If your policy or your client agreements require an R2v3-certified vendor today, we are not that vendor yet, and we'll tell you so on the first call rather than the third. We'll point you to someone who is.

If what you need is documented, defensible destruction from someone local who answers the phone and can be on site the same week — that we can do now, and we'd like the chance to prove it on one batch.

Who we work with

Starting where we can genuinely help

Managed service providers

You refresh client hardware constantly and it piles up in the back. We take whole units, handle the drives, and return a certificate per client — so your chain of custody never has a gap in it.

Professional offices

Law firms, accountants, insurance and real estate agencies. Small volumes, real obligations, and usually no good answer for the closet full of old machines.

Clinics and credit unions

Regulated data on a scale that doesn't justify a national vendor. On-site destruction means the drives never leave your sight.

Offices moving or closing

Relocations, downsizing, consolidations. One pickup, everything documented, and nothing to pay.

Get in touch

Tell us what you're sitting on

Rough device count is enough to start. We'll tell you what we can collect and whether we're the right fit — including when we aren't.