Document Shredding Services FAQs

Shredding documents is the most secure way to protect yourself from data theft, identity theft, and other breaches. Your documents will be thoroughly destroyed and disposed of so that no one will have access to your private, confidential data.

Individuals should shred any documents that contain sensitive or personal information, like account numbers, social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses, signatures, children’s names, passwords, and other data that could be used for identity theft. It’s a good idea to shred financial documents, identification documents, medical records, tax documents, legal documents, and employment documents. Businesses should follow their company’s retention and destruction policy and shred HR and personnel documents, financial documents, real estate documents, legal documents, and any documents containing private or confidential information.

Hard drives and electronic media cannot be ‘shredded,’ but we do offer hard drive destruction and electronic recycling services.

Mobile shredding and on-site shredding are both shredding services provided at your home or business. Off-site shredding services are pick-up services where we take the documents to our secure facility for shredding and destruction.

Yes, our professional shredding services are much more secure than shredding your documents yourself. We use strict security measures and adhere to stringent confidentiality standards to prevent unauthorized access to your documents.

The shredded paper is recycled, making it a very environmentally friendly way to properly destroy and dispose of sensitive documents.

We offer one-time or as-needed shredding services, scheduled or recurring shredding services, and document clean-out or document purge projects.

If we are completing mobile shredding, you can watch the shredding process. However, due to security and compliance requirements at our facility, we do not allow clients to watch off-site shredding.

Yes, after the shredding process is complete, you will sign our electronic record, and we will email you a Certificate of Destruction.