Shredding Service Q & A

As a trusted resource for our clients, we’re asked questions about document shredding service all the time. If you’re in the market for a privacy protection solution, there’s a good chance you may have a question or two like some of those we’ve listed below. Here are the answers you’re looking for:

A: We recommend offsite shredding.  Onsite shredding leaves your provider vulnerable to wind, rain and unapproved eyes in an open parking area.  Offsite shredding offers a reliable and affordable privacy protection solution for your business. Your documents are transported in a GPS-tracked vehicle by screened professionals to a shredding plant where they’re destroyed and recycled behind locked doors and under camera view.

A: A Certificate of Destruction is a document you are given after your files are shredded. It notes the time, day and method of shredding and offers legal proof of destruction.

A: After your documents are shredded they are baled and transferred directly to a paper pulp recycling facility.

A: Using a paper shredder to destroy your confidential documents isn’t efficient or secure to final disposal. Your employees spend hours putting paper through a small machine that can be done by a professional provider in a matter of minutes.  A responsible shredding provider takes the shredded pieces directly to a paper mill for pulping.  That means no recyclers selling your paper to the highest bidder or leaving it unsecured for identity thieves.

A: As often as you need them to be. You can invest in either scheduled shredding or a one-time shredding purge service.

A: Yes, non-paper items like tapes or hard drives with sensitive data should be shredded. Data on digital devices is still accessible even after the devices are erased or reformatted. The only way to eradicate the data is to physically destroy the device. A hard drive and media shredding service shreds digital devices into tiny particles.

A: Yes, a document shredding company like us also serves home owners with residential shredding services. A uniformed driver picks up your personal documents at your door and transport them to shredding plant for professional destruction. A residential shredding service eliminates “thieves” rummaging through your trash and recycling bins.