Shredding FAQs

We service many clients who use us just once as well as companies who need to shred regularly.

Depending on your location, shredding can be scheduled as soon as the next day.

All businesses have occasion to discard confidential data. Customer lists, price lists, sales statistics, drafts of bids and correspondence, and even memos contain information about business activity, which would interest any competitor. Every business is also entrusted with information that must be kept private. Employees and customers have the legal right to have this data protected.

Yes, after it is shredded in our trucks, it is taken to our secure facility in West Chester, PA or directly to the recycler.

No, shredding is done with the large commercial shredder mounted in our trucks, which are parked in your parking lot or adjacent to your building. This mobile shredding allows you to watch the process if you so choose.

Yes, you can keep your boxes to reuse.

For security reasons. Recycling services are not designed to provide security. Generally, recycling services use open collection containers, which are unsecured. Generally, the employees of recycling service companies are not security-screened personnel. Paper is taken to the warehouses, which are accessible to other people, and the paper is then sorted for grade. The courts have ruled that once you place your material into the trashcan, recycling receptacle, or dumpster, you lose all privacy rights to that information, no matter how sensitive or proprietary it is. The laws on public domain protect the people taking the information – NOT YOU! You may be held liable for negligence if the discarded material does harm to someone.