Why Shred?

​1.  SDS services improve your company's bottom line.
  • ​Employees will not have to waste hours standing at the office shredder allowing them more time allotted to their primary responsibility.
  • No need to purchase, repair or replace costly shredders or special containers.

2.  Both Federal and State laws require businesses to protect the confidential information collected from customers. 

  • California Assembly Bill 2246 (October 2001) "California Shredding Law" mandates that a business "must take all reasonable steps to destroy or arrange for the destruction of a customer's records within its custody or control containing personal information which is no longer to be retained by the business... and that any business in violation is subject to civil action".​
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) sets national standards for the protection of health information, as applied to the three types of covered entities: health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers who conduct certain health care transactions electronically. 
  • The Privacy Act of 1974 was established to ensure that government agencies protect the privacy of individuals and businesses with regard to information held by them and holds these agencies liable if any information is released without authorization. 

3.  Rates of identity theft, fraud and industrial espionage are dramatically increasing. 

  • Based on data released by the FTC in 2004, reports of identity theft increased 34% between 2002 and 2003. 
  • Corporate espionage is estimated to cost U.S. companies $7 Billion dollars yearly.


4.  Dumpster diving is a reality.
  • Shredding of incidental business records discarded on a daily basis protects your company by ensuring destruction of materials such as bids, memos, plans, forms and designs. 

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