Our mobile shredders, which are securely integrated into our bespoke shredding vehicles, can handle 3 tonnes of paper shredding per hour. Our secure and cost-effective shredding services are a quick and easy way for your business to meet GDPR data destruction requirements, and we’ll provide you with a Certificate of Destruction for your Chain of Custody records. Any document containing sensitive information should be destroyed when no longer needed and within regulation timeframes – even if it’s just a scribbled note of a customer’s address. Shredding confidential paper documents is essential for businesses and organisations with the latest data protection law. Since the introduction of GDPR and the rise in reported confidential data breaches, paper shredding is required more than ever. We may be living in the digital age, but the paperless home or office is still far from a reality and demand for our paper shredding continues to grow.

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Expired Permanent RecordsĮxpired passports and driver’s licenses, copies of birth certificates, old insurance policies and resumes should be shredded. Also, shred any tax-related documents used to support those tax returns can also be destroyed. No reason to keep old tax records longer than the IRS requires. Within a year, destroy pay stubs, bank statements, and medical bills that have been paid.

Also, remove and shred pharmacy labels before throwing away the empty prescription bottles. Sales and cash withdrawal receipts from ATM’s, junk mail credit card offers. Also, shred sales receipts, unless the items purchased have warranties. Destroy ImmediatelyĪfter paying credit card or utility bills, shred them immediately. Depending on the type of document and its content will govern when it should be destroyed.

Destroying documents with your personal information reduces the likelihood of becoming an identity theft victim. If you are a person that likes to keep things just in case remember that identity thieves can’t get access to documents you have destroyed. Many security professionals recommend that you can shred many documents sooner than seven years. That means any document that you put in the regular garbage is available to anyone that wants to look through it. Greenwood, found that there is no expectation of privacy in trash that is left for collection in an area accessible to the public. Many people are surprised to learn that someone can legally dig through their trash once it has been put out for pick up. Don’t waste your time or make a mistake, ensure you are in compliance with shredding laws, shred everything. So how do you decide? The time it will take to review each document would be great not to mention the possibility of making a mistake. Half of every document has some piece of information that is required by law to be shredded. So what needs to be shredded? The simple answer is destroy everything, here is why. Paper usage is still growing every year even with the advancements with paperless technology.

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