I want a shredding company

Benson

I work from home and use some much paper its untrue!! Unfortunaly there is no way I can reduce this as its all necessary documentation that I receive from my contacts and suppliers.

However to comply with Data protection I need to safely dispose of this paper as it has peoples confidential information on it.

I keep burning out personaly shredders and to be honest they fill up so quickly i find them a ballache to use!

Does anyone know how much these mobile shredding vans cost? Anyone got any recommendations?

WestonDave

The one we use at work seems to charge about £55+VAT per visit (plus a time charge if you have loads - our biggest site with 6 bins comes to about £130!) and they come once a month. They give you a large locked (you get a key just in case!) box to put the paper in which has a canvas bag inside - they replace the bag and take the full one out to the lorry, shred it and then give you a certificate of destruction.

We've not had any problems with them (well apart from when the lorry broke and spread fluid all over the road but that was their problem clearing it up!) - they took over from a previous supplier that used to take the stuff away and shred it at their base. Company is called Shred it but I think there are different franchises. I guess you might be able to have collections every other month to cut costs as you'd have to be generating your own body weight in waste paper each month to fill the bin in that time!

bigdoozer

carefull, very few of these guys shred on site though they say they do.Most bag it as mentioned but simple take bags away (even shrek-it) and sell to waste paper companies who rough shred in a warehouse between which time is is stock piled in a big heap. The destruction cert also conveniently acts as order form and invoice too. £15 a bag was average (approx 15kgs).
Shop around, shred easy, shred it, iron mountain, local tip, regular bonfire.