There are a lot of reasons why even small businesses elect to work with shredding services instead of doing shredding in-house. It’s certainly more convenient to have a service come and take away locked bins of your shreddable stuff, compared to maintaining your own shredder and having employees feed obsolete...Continue Reading

All businesses have sensitive data to protect, but paper shredding is even more critically important for healthcare entities than virtually any other industry. For healthcare offices, protecting information from exposure is more than a matter of professional conduct. HIPAA compliance makes it a matter of law. And recent trends indicate...Continue Reading

Creating and maintaining your record retention policy is one of those tasks that takes a little time upfront but can save a lot of time and confusion later on. It’s essentially a way of making sure everyone in your organization is on the same page about how to handle all...Continue Reading

One of the biggest challenges that businesses have around data security is that things always seem to be shifting. Every time you bring a new kind of IT system or technology into your organization, you have to figure out how to use it and figure out how to protect any...Continue Reading

As everything gets more expensive, we’re all looking for ways to cut costs. So if you’re looking at your current confidential data destruction pricing and wondering whether your business should save money by switching to the cheapest shredding service in your area, that’s understandable. If you asked me, I would...Continue Reading

Your business might need product destruction services for any number of reasons. Maybe it’s old or defective inventory that you can’t sell. Obsolete merchandise or models that are proprietary to your business. Products that were damaged in transit to you. Old uniforms with company branding from former employees. Or maybe...Continue Reading

Global shipping woes continue to tangle the supply chain, and you’re probably experiencing the effects (higher prices, long delays) in both your personal life and in your business. But certain international shipping challenges existed before the pandemic began, including managing shipments of defective products. What’s your business to do when...Continue Reading

Every responsible business owner knows by now that data security is an urgent and ongoing concern. No matter your industry or the size of your business, you’re vulnerable to data theft or an accidental data exposure at any time. Creating a strict data security policy helps you and your team...Continue Reading

You don’t have to have decades of experience in the paper shredding industry to understand the core differences among cross-cut, strip-cut and pierce and tear commercial paper shredders. One cuts paper both vertically and horizontally to create confetti-like shreds, another pokes holes and rips up the material, while the other...Continue Reading

Did you know that Elon Musk has such a sensitive sense of smell that Tesla job candidates are allegedly told not to wear fragrances to their interviews? Presumably, if you do get the gig and are going to be working in Elon’s proximity, you put your favorite cologne or perfume...Continue Reading