MacBook Pro 13 "mid-2009 - hard disk of cloth before selling it for parts

I'm selling my MacBook Pro 13 "mid-2009 for parts.  The motherboard crashed.  The laptop is no longer active.  I have all the data of the hard disk (made for me by the repair store), but I still need to remove the hard drive and erase all that it contains.  I can understand how to remove it, but the advice to clean the hard drive would be very appreciated.  Thank you!

Here are some steps provided by Apple: disk utility (El Capitan): delete a volume

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