Document Shredding in Ohio
Do you throw sensitive/confidential information about your company or customers in the trash? Are you still storing unneeded documents? Or are your employees spending hours and hours just to shred the documents? Well, it’s time to do you and your company a favor! No matter if you are a small business of 50 employees or a large corporation of 5,000 employees, Specific Waste Industries provides confidential document shredding services in Ohio. So, if you want to dispose of a company’s financial records or just personal documents, remember us. We will protect your documents from data breaches and identity theft through our effective off-site document shredding. Make a smart decision and stay protected – Call us now!
We Offer Document Shredding Services in Ohio
As a regionally owned and operated service provider in Ohio, we have been protecting businesses, financial institutions, healthcare facilities, insurance companies, educational institutions, and government agencies for more than 40 years. So, if you have a small number of documents or even large ones, you can walk in/drop them off at our facility and watch your documents being efficiently shredded through our shredding container.
Our company is NAID Certified®, hence we can handle all kinds of confidential data. We always send our uniformed, bonded, and fully insured specialists to collect your materials. On top of that, our shredding services are charged at a low cost per pound.
Here are the types of shredding services that we currently offer in the Ohio area:
Professional Document Destruction
Our professional document destruction is ideal for disposing of a wide range of sensitive documents, such as financial records, legal documents, customer data, and internal reports. We typically use industrial-grade shredders to reduce paper documents into tiny, confetti-like particles. Through our destruction method, we ensure that the information in your document is irretrievable. Our services provide an added layer of security for your business.
Medical Document Shredding in Ohio
Through our medical records shredding in Ohio, we serve healthcare facilities, clinics, and medical offices. Our medical document shredding is 100% compliant with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). We can shred medical records, patient charts, prescription information, and any other healthcare-related documents. Our high-security shredders reduce these types of documents into small, unreadable particles to safeguard patient confidentiality and avoid potential legal and financial consequences.
Confidential Medical Record Shredding Services
It is very crucial to destroy confidential documents securely to protect privacy and prevent risks across personal and business contexts. Here’s why effective medical shredding in Ohio is essential:
- Privacy Protection: Since sensitive documents have sensitive and private information like personal identification details, bank account details, medical records, etc. So, document destruction helps to protect your privacy.
- Legal Compliance: HIPAA, GLBA (the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act), and GDPR (the General Data Protection Regulation) mandate the secure handling and disposal of confidential information. So, secure document destruction helps maintain compliance with these regulations, protecting individuals and businesses from legal risks.
- Corporate Espionage and Intellectual Property Protection: Businesses and organizations handle proprietary and confidential information, including trade secrets, financial reports, and product development plans. So, if you fail to protect these documents, it can make an organization vulnerable to corporate espionage and intellectual property theft. That’s why safe document destruction is important.
- Environmental Responsibility: An average employee generates 6,800 sheets of paper a year. Often, after shredding, the resulting paper particles are recycled. Hence, document shredding helps to reduce the ecological impact of document disposal and supports sustainability.
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Shred All Types of Documents with Specific Waste
Here are the types of documents that we shred:
- Documents containing Social Security Numbers, PINs or passwords
- Copies of legal documents
- Credit card bills
- Payroll information or Bank Statements
- Personnel Files
- Tax records
- Credit reports
- Airline ticket
- Confidential documents
- Dental records
- Government documents
- Medical documents
- Real estate documents
- School files
- Security papers
Here’s how our document destruction & shredding services in Ohio differ:
- Legally dispose of all of the document waste (HIPAA Compliant)
- Seamless On-site and offsite document shredding
- Scheduled Pick-ups – Daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, annually, and one-time pick-up options
- Certificate of Destruction
- Recycling Commitment
Contact Specific Waste for All Your Paper Shredding Needs
Protect your sensitive information and maintain legal compliance with our secure document shredding services in Ohio. Our experts are available to answer any questions and provide a tailored solution to fit your unique needs. Don’t leave your confidential information at risk – contact us today at 877-425-2770, and let us provide you with peace of mind. We also offer medical waste disposal, hazardous waste disposal, and sharps disposal services in Ohio.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
After the documents are shredded, you can either drop them off at a local recycling center or you can bundle the shredded documents in a mixed recycling bin or (blue) bag. You can also compost the shredded papers. However, you shouldn’t compost glossy or waxy documents, fluorescent-colored documents, documents with metallic inks, or colored cards.
Almost every paper nowadays contains plastic. So, even though you can burn documents, burning them leads to carbon emissions. Plus, you just cannot burn documents as per your will; you need to have space to do so and should know your community rules. So, it’s always better to shred documents as it is safe and responsible, and it also reduces waste. Moreover, shredding is done by a trained professional who is familiar with safety protocols.
Shredding documents helps protect your personal and business information from identity theft, fraud, and corporate espionage. It also helps to keep you compliant with privacy laws and regulations, such as HIPAA, FACTA, and GDPR. Furthermore, shredding and recycling contribute to a sustainable environment by reducing paper waste in landfills.
You can shred the following documents in Ohio with us:
- Documents containing Social Security Numbers, PINs or passwords,
- Copies of legal documents,
- Credit card bills,
- Payroll information or Bank Statements,
- Personnel Files,
- Tax records,
- Credit reports,
- Airline ticket.
Absolutely! Shredding distorts paper documents into tiny, confetti-like particles, so shredding documents provides 100% security and confidentiality. On top of that, the shredded documents are further processed and recycled to ensure that no sensitive information remains.