It’s once again that time of year. The office is a mess because desks and filing cabinets are filled with documents that you no longer require. Why not purge with SecureShred rather than going through the effort of shredding your own documents?
In any company, keeping your office organized is crucial. Purge shredding is not only a terrific method to get rid of unnecessary paperwork and organize your office, but it also enhances data security, benefits the environment, and saves you time and money.
Purge Shredding: What is it?
When a business has to destroy a lot of documents, they can employ the one-time service of purge shredding. Simply gather all the documents you wish to be destroyed and call SecureShred to arrange a pick up.
Throwing your paper in the trash may be quicker, but there are security dangers involved. Utilizing SecureShred’s purge shredding service will protect your data. All of oyur paperwork is gathered and placed in a shred bin, which is then destroyed On-site or transported to our facility and destroyed . You receive a Certificate of Destruction after your records have been shredded. Knowing your records have been securely destroyed, you can feel secure you are protected from data breaches.
It is time-consuming and expensive to do the shredding yourself. Unlike a professional shredder, your normal office shredder has limits on how much you can shred at once i.e. you will be limited as to how many sheets you can shred at one time. Add up the employee time plus the expense of owning and maintaining your own shredder, and its certainly cheaper to hire SecureShred to handle your shredding.
Using SecureSHred is easy – just gather and prepare your documents in advance. After that, you leave the rest in the hands of SecureShred’s trained shredding professionals.
Organizing Your Office
Keeping up with your document destruction can help keep your office organized, will not only improve productivity, but it may also lower stress levels among your staff. You can concentrate on more important work if your office isn’t cluttered and you can locate your documents easily.
The easiest approach to keep up with your document shredding is to perform an annual document purge. With purge shredding, when your outdated files start to accumulate again, you can simply schedule another appointment with SecureShred. Annual or Bi-Annual Cleanouts are popular with our clients.
What Happens to Material That Is Shredded?
When the shred truck has departed your office and you resume your regular activities, you may wonder what will happen to the shredded materials…..
When our shredding trucks are filled to capacity with shredded material, they are driven back to our partner recycling facility in Long Island, where it is compacted into bales. The bales are shipped to a paper making recycling plant where the shredded paper is pulped in water and bleach before being turned into the end product of paper towels or toilet paper.