Shredding

Confidentiality and the need to protect one's identity made document shredding a priority and a necessity for all businesses.


Services Shredding Truck

Wasteco helps companies minimize liability and build safeguards to identity theft by providing state-of-the-art shredding services that track and document every stage of the process. Our service includes:

  • Certificate of Destruction
  • Regular, permanent on-site and/or off-site document destruction
  • Office cleanout and/or purges
  • On-site or off-site document destruction
  • Yearly bulk purges
  • On-site or off-site media destruction
  • Product destruction
  • Plant based services

Programs/Equipment

Wasteco provides secured document shredding services, both on-site and off-site. With the addition of our state of the art shredding vehicles we can deliver fast and secure service right to your doorstep.

  • Collection by security checked Security Service Representatives
  • Locked storage containers
  • 24 hour security camera surveillance and regular foot patrols for plant based operation
  • Certificates of Destruction
  • 64 or 95 gallon totes
  • Secure consoles complete with internal bag

What Should be Shredded

Here are some examples of sensitive documents we shred for our clients.

  • Invoices
  • Research data
  • Brand data
  • Ingredients or process list
  • Purchase orders
  • Financial reports
  • Internal memos
  • Customer and prospect lists
  • Receipts
  • Bills of lading
  • Incorrectly completed documents
  • Handwritten notes that contain confidential information
  • Address labels from junk mail and magazines
  • ATM receipts and bank statements
  • Birth certificate copies           
  • Canceled and voided cheques
  • Credit card bills, carbon copies, summaries, reports, histories and receipts
  • Documents containing names, addresses
  • Phone numbers and email addresses
  • Documents relating to investments
  • Documents containing passwords or pin numbers
  • Driver’s licenses or items with a driver’s license number
  • Employee pay stubs and employment records
  • Expired passports, visas, luggage tags
  • Travel itineraries and used airline tickets      
  • Un-laminated identification cards (school IDs, provincial IDs, employee ID badges, military IDs)   
  • Legal documents and tax forms
  • Investment, stock and property transactions           
  • Items with a signature (leases, contracts, letters, cards, postcards)
  • Medical and dental records
  • Papers with a social insurance number
  • Pre-approved credit card applications
  • Receipts with chequing account numbers
  • Report cards, transcripts and resumes
  • Utility bills (telephone, gas, electric, water, cable TV, internet)

FAQ

Why is shredding so important?

To protect personal and customer information and identity from theft.

Why use a service when I can shred myself?

Using a third-party service provider shifts liability away from your company and leaves your employees free to work on more productive tasks.

What do you do with the shredded paper?

All shredded paper is sent to paper mills where it is recycled.

Do you service low volume businesses?

Yes. Our minimum service frequency is once per month.

How do you determine how many consoles we need?

Our rule of thumb is:
One console per 20 employees
Or
One console per five employees who handle documents daily.

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