Regularly Scheduled Paper Shredding Services

The average cost of an information breach can exceed more than £2.4M in lost customers, revenue, and fines. Protect yourself for less than you spend on coffee each month!

Keeping confidential information confidential

The most common way confidential information gets into the wrong hands is when it’s not handled appropriately. With Shred-it secure document destruction, all paper documents can go into our tamper-proof containers where 100% of the paper is destroyed and recycled, safely and securely. So, with a regularly-scheduled service, you’re not just protected on shredding day but every day.

Unique benefits of regularly scheduled paper shredding service

• FREE on-site DATA SECURITY SURVEY
• Secure, locked containers in your office
• Complimentary Workplace Privacy Policies
• Regularly scheduled collections
• State-of-the-art Secure Chain of Custody at every touchpoint
• A Certificate of Destruction after every service All shredded paper is 100% securely recycled

On-demand Shredding Service

Overflowing filing cabinets, storage boxes, and cupboards represent a very real risk to you and your business. Let us help you clear out the clutter and remove the risk.

Is your office starting to look cluttered?

From financial reports to personnel records, your business can accumulate a lot of paper in storage. And throw p-bot-halfing them out could mean you are in violation of data protection laws. Deal with office clutter the smart way and use our certified document destruction service.

Get rid of the risk, safely and securely

For businesses dealing with document overflow or for companies with less frequent needs, our one-off document destruction service is the best way to deal with office clear-outs. From our better-than-industry standards to our knowledgeable information security professionals, we offer a wide range of confidential waste shredding options to meet your needs.

Perfect for customers with a one-off need

• Easy, on-demand scheduling of your service
• Easy add-on to regularly scheduled service
• Any number of boxes: just a few or a full warehouse
• Provided by Certified Security Representatives
• Barcode scanning, integral to our Secure Chain of Custody
• Shred-it Certificate of Destruction following your service
• Helps ensure compliance with data protection legislation
• All shredded paper is 100% recycled

Hard Drive Destruction Service

As many as 87% of businesses don’t use a professional service to physically destroy old hard drives, USBs or other hardware that contain confidential information. Only physical destruction ensures the data on an old hard drive is 100% destroyed.

Your old technology could make or break your business

If your hard drive disposal process includes erasing, reformatting, wiping or degaussing old hard drives, you and your customers are still vulnerable. In fact, as long as the drives are physically intact, private information can still be retrieved.

Why choose Shred-it for hard drive destruction?

Shred-it applies the same proven, state-of-the-art, chain of custody protocols for hard drive destruction as we do for document destruction, ensuring safe, secure destruction of your media.

• Regularly scheduled collection or on-demand service
• A secure chain of custody at every touchpoint
• A certificate of hard drive destruction after each service
• Material is securely recycled with approved partners

How to destroy a hard drive

Shred-it's destruction machines (hydraulic crusher or shredder) are specifically designed to destroy your hard drives so that data can never be retrieved or reconstructed. Only complete, physical destruction will ensure that your digital data is permanently destroyed. Shred-it offers two options for permanent hard drive destruction:

Shredding Services*

Shreds your entire hard drive into small pieces using industrial grade destruction equipment. The hard drive shredding process completely destroys the drive platters, mechanisms, and the electronic components rendering the data unrecoverable.

Crushing Services*

Punching an irreparable hole through each hard drive with 3,400 kilos of force pressure. Completely destroying the drive platters, rippling and fracturing the magnetic surfaces and rendering the drive data unrecoverable.

* Subject to local availability

Media Destruction Service

Secure media destruction services for everything from old CD-ROMs to magnetic back-up tapes is the only way to be sure that your confidential information remains secure – no matter what format.

Get secure media destruction and protect your organisation

In today’s digital world, confidential information can be found in a wide variety of formats:

• Optical media (like CDs and CD-ROMs, DVDs and DVD-ROMs, Blu-ray, and HD-DVD)
• Magnetic backup tapes (any kind of DLT, mini cartridges and many more)
• Floppy Disks (3.5 inch disks, 5.25 inch disks, and others)
• Zip disks (100 MB, 250 MB, and larger)

Only physical destruction is 100% effective

Secure media destruction services from Shred-it are the safest and most effective way to shred and destroy a wide range of digital and electronic media. Locked containers and even magnetic erasing are not enough to ensure your confidential information will stay out of the wrong hands.

Why choose Shred-it for media destruction?

Shred-it applies the same proven, state-of-the-art, chain of custody protocols for media destruction as we do for document destruction, ensuring safe, secure destruction of your media.

• Scheduled service or on-demand
• A secure chain of custody at every touchpoint
• A certificate of media destruction after each service
• Material is securely recycled with approved providers

Speciality Shredding Service

Speciality shredding makes sure that your proprietary information, branded materials, and any other important items are kept out of the wrong hands and are securely destroyed.

It’s not just about the paper

Confidential information comes in many forms.

Shred-it is able to help your organisation protect the proprietary materials that could put your company or brand at risk if they were obtained by criminals, a competitor, or the public. Including, but not limited to:

• CDs, DVDs and USB drives
• Corporate promotional items
• Monetary Instruments - credit cards / debit cards Data tapes
• Identification cards
• Pill bottles
• Uniforms
• X-rays
• Casino chips/Playing cards

Why choose Shred-it to destroy your speciality items?

Shred-it applies the same proven, state-of-the-art, chain of custody protocols and leading shredding technologies for our speciality shreds as we do for document or hard drive destruction, ensuring safe, secure destruction of your confidential items.

• Easy, on-demand scheduling of your service
• Provided by Certified Security Representatives
• Barcode scanning, integral to our Secure Chain of Custody
• Shred-it Certificate of Destruction following your service

The Shred-it Protected Workplace

On their own, our products and services offer excellent protection from the risks of an information breach. But together they provide an integrated suite of services that helps ensure your workplace, your employees, and your customers are Shred-it Protected each and every day.

Shred-it Secure Chain of Custody

COur better-than-industry standards start with our secure chain of custody protocols. We invest in the latest technologies to ensure end-to-end tracking of your documents:

• Barcode scan at every touchpoint
• Tamper-proof containers keep hands off documents
• Locked trucks and secure containers for safe transit
• GPS-tracked fleets
• Secure, monitored facilities