To shred or recycle? No need to choose

When your company partners with a secure shredding service that offers a certified recycling program, you’re getting the best of both worlds; you’re supporting the environment, fulfilling your Corporate Social Responsibility without compromising confidentiality and security.

Getting Greener About Compliance and Security

Besides the environmental impact, it’s not wise for any business to simply throw away its old documents or electronic storage media—and in many cases, it’s illegal. A host of federal and state regulations call for the secure destruction of certain kinds of information, ranging from consumer personal information to medical records and other industry-specific data. There’s also your company’s proprietary strategic information to consider. A steady stream of news about damaging corporate information leaks only reinforces the need for ultimate document and data security.

Shred-All policy

A Shred-All policy all but eliminates the chance for a potentially devastating security breach. Employees no longer have to struggle over whether a particular document contains confidential information. All employees have to know is that the document, by definition, has outlived its usefulness to the organisation. Their only responsibility at this point is to have it shredded.

The bottom line: Any information that your business or its customers might consider confidential cannot pass through your existing recycling program. If it does, you risk privacy violations, customer attrition and legal action.

In a secure shredding program administered by a trusted partner, your company disposes of its sensitive documents in special locked bins. The shredding service picks up the bins on a regular basis, for delivery in a secure vehicle to a secure shredding facility. There the paper is shredded beyond any possible reconstruction. Then it goes to a pulping mill for recycling.

As you would expect, it takes a large facility with a deep knowledge of efficient, economical and compliant document destruction processes to tackle these comprehensive goals. When you and your trusted partner perform these processes correctly, recycling doesn’t compromise your security. In fact, it likely enhances it.