How to Choose a Paper Shredding Service?

In part-I of this article we discussed the importance of shredding for disposing off the documents containing sensitive information. We also discussed about the usefulness of professional document shredding companies. Now we will discuss about choosing the right document shredding company for our business. We will discuss the important factors that need to be considered before taking the services of the shredding company.

Which one is better: mobile shredding or plant shredding? The mobile shredding service is better for the documents which are more sensitive and consists of information about the financial transactions or applied patent of any product or business secrets. You will want that these types of disposed documents should be shredded in your presence because you will not want to take any risk of information leakage. In this case the mobile truck equipped with all necessary shredding equipments will be brought to your office premises and all the documents will be shredded there.

On the other hand, if you choose plant shredding, the documents to be shredded are taken to the shredding plant of the shredding company. This is a cheaper option. The plant shredding is also safe and you may consider it for your less sensitive documents and routine discarded files. It is also advisable here that you should always monitor the process of shredding yourself if you choose mobile shredding as it is a costlier option and you have to pay in order to get peace of mind from any possible identity theft threat.

The choice of the shedding service should also be dependent upon the volume of the documents likely to be shredded. It will be a foolish step to engage a mobile shredding service for documents that are less than 5000 pounds in weight. The mobile trucks are capable of shredding 5000 pounds of documents in an hour and the company will charge for at least one hour from you. If you have few boxes of documents to be shredded than better consider the courier service like Ship-n-Shred. If you have a large volume of the documents of about 20000 pounds to be shredded than the plant shredding will be cost effective for you.

You should always prefer the services of the company that is “AAA” certified from NAID (National Association of Information Destruction) as there is no government agency yet that issues certificates to the shredding companies. You should also fix your schedule for shredding well in advance as most of the shredding companies will demand at least 24 hours before starting their task. It should always be noted that off-time hour for shredding will you cost more.Check out maintenance of your paper shredding machine and hiring a professional shredding company, and learn how to recylce office paper, choosing and deciding shredding services.

You may also rely on the recommendations of your friends who have already used the services of a shredding company. You will also require that your documents in the form of some storage media like hard drives, compact discs and floppy discs may also be shredded properly. So before taking the services of any company negotiate with them about disposal of such material.

The most vital factor in deciding about taking the services of any shredding company is the cost involved. You should carefully research on the Internet or in the market and should try to hire the services of the company that provide it services on the basis of per-bin or per-box rates. So you should always check for the quotations from several companies.