For Your Information

Today's information explosion can be devastating to your business. Businesses are using more and more paperwork to keep track of various information. The possibility of your company business becoming someone else's knowledge is not worth a chance.

Document destruction is the ultimate in maximum security for instant destruction of sensitive and confidential documents. All businesses need to discard confidential data because every business is entrusted with information that must be kept private.

Just about every business has a need for document destruction.

Recycling is not an adequate alternative for information destruction

The "acceptable" paper is stored for indefinite periods until there is enough of a particular type to process. The sorted paper, still intact, is then baled and sold to the highest bidder, often overseas, where it may be stored again for weeks or even months until it is finally used to make new products.

There is no fiduciary responsibility inherent in the recycling scenario. Paper is given away or sold and, in doing so, a company gives up the right to say how it is handled. There is, also, no practical means of establishing the exact date that a record is destroyed. In the event of an audit or litigation, this could be a legal necessity. And further, if something of a private nature does surface, the selection of this unsecured process could be interpreted as negligent. For these reasons, the choice of recycling as a means of information destruction is undesirable from a risk-management perspective.

If environmental responsibility is a concern, materials may be recycled after they are destroyed, or a firm can contract a service that will destroy the materials under secure conditions before recycling them. Any recycling company that minimizes the need for security has its own interests in mind.