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Why Shred The Law Your Organization must comply with laws and regulations, requiring that it protect certain information when it is discarded. An increasing number of laws actually require organizations to shred or face steep fines. At the federal level FACTA (Credit Report Info), HIPPA (Healthcare) and Gramm-Leach-Bliley (Financial) require specific physical safeguards such as shredding to meet compliance. Stiff penalties could result! if you are not compliant. Your Customers Whether your customers are consumers concerned about Identity Theft and Privacy, or companies concerned with protecting trade information, you are entrusted with information that they consider to be extremely confidential. In fact, whether you know it or not, you have an "implied contract" to protect that information simply based on the fact that you are collecting the data to conduct business. They have the legal right to expect you to take every precaution to protect it including shredding it before it is discarded. Dumpster Diving Dumpster Diving, the number one source of personal and business information theft, is LEGAL! The US Supreme Court has ruled that you forfeit the right of ownership to discarded information. If you don't protect your information, the courts won't either. Dumpster Diving has become Investigative Journalism 101. With all the privacy compliance laws, it is the first place reporter's look when trying to grab a quick headline. Privacy is the newest consumer awareness issue. Confidential information in your dumpster is an easy source for sensational headlines. Your Employees Employees (past and present) have a legal right to have their personal information protected by shredding before it is discarded. Insurance records, employment applications, time cards, health records, accident reports and attendance records are examples of information that legally must be protected. More Profits What is more economical for your business? Paying a trusted employee to separate, remove paperclips and staples and sort card stock from paper, then having them stand over a paper shredder sometimes for hours to shred documents and then clean up the mess? OR You Could... Have us install a locked bin of a size that suits your needs and call us or just have us stop by and empty it on a schedule. We can shred in minutes the same amount of material that it would take an employee 8 hours to do by hand. With our equipment, there is no need to separate staples and card stock, so no one is looking through the material that is being shredded. Recycle - Save the Earth When you pay an employee to shred documents what is done with the waste? Most likely it is put into the trash. We recycle all of our waste materials. For every 1 ton of paper recycled:
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