E-Waste You Should be Shredding:
- Hard Drives
- Disks
- Microfilm
- Tapes
You say you don’t have much confidential information that needs to be shredded? Think again! Here is a list of the type of information that absolutely should be shredded.
- Account records and ledgers
- Activity sheets
- Advertising
- Applications
- Appraisals
- Bank statements
- Bids and quotes
- Budgets
- Business plans
- Canceled checks
- Client lists
- Contact lists
- Corporate tax records
- Correspondence
- Customer records
- Disciplinary reports and promotions
- Educational reports
- Expense reports
- Financial statements
- Forecasts
- Formulas, product plans, and tests
- General service information
- Health and safety reports
- Internal reports
- Legal documents
- Lottery tickets
- Magnetic media
- Maps and blueprints
- Marketing plans
- Medical records
- Microfilm and microfiche
- New product information
- Payroll documents
- Performance appraisals
- Personnel files
- Plastic credit and ID cards
- Research and development reports
- Sales forecasts
- Specification drawings
- Strategic reports
- Strategies
- Supplier purchase orders
- Supplier reports
- Supplier specifications
- Test scores and class rosters
- Training information programs
Can & Cannot Shred
In order to maintain the recycling integrity of the shredded paper, we follow these basic guidelines. This list is intended as a reference. If you have questions about materials you need destroyed, please contact us.
What CAN be shredded with paper:
- Paper clips
- Staples
- Binder clips
- Rubber bands
- Office paper (any color)
- Manila folders
- Envelopes (plastic windows are okay)
- Patient folders (fasteners are okay)
- Spiral notebooks
- Newspapers
- Magazines
What CANNOT be shredded with paper:
- 3-ring binders
- Plastics bags
- Hanging file folders
- Garbage
- Stickers
- Film
- X-rays
- Corrugated cardboard
- Digital media