Confidential Shredding & Waste Disposal

Before disposal, we recommend you securely store confidential documents in locked containers or secure rooms with limited access, ensuring your information remains confidential until our confidential waste collection team safely removes it for shredding.

Confidential shredding is the process of securely destroying documents with sensitive information, protecting against unauthorised access, by compliance with privacy laws. It is essential for maintaining privacy and security in personal and business contexts.

Our services are not limited to paper shredding. We can securely destroy a wide range of materials, including hard drives or end-of-line prototype products, ensuring your confidential waste is disposed of and recycled correctly.

Certified shredding specialists within on-site secure environments. These services guarantee a monitored, law-compliant, and secure destruction process

You should confidentially shred financial records, client/customer information, and proprietary company data. Secure shredding of these documents is critical to prevent identity theft and information breaches.

Document retention periods are dictated by legal and operational mandates, with durations varying by document type. 

• Accounting and Tax Documents: Private companies, 3 years; public companies, 6 years.
• Immigration Checks: Retain for 2 years post-employment.
• Expense Accounts and Wage/Salary Records: Keep for 6 years; minimum wage records for 3 years after the pay period.
• Leave and Working Time Records: Store for 2 years from creation.
• Parental Leave Records: Maintain for 3 years after the tax year ends.
• National Insurance and HMRC Correspondence: 3 years post-tax year.
• Accident Reports: 3 years from the incident date, longer if under 21.

Yes, confidential shredding bins are essential for securely collecting documents before destruction. If a business prints confidential documents or receives letters, it safeguards sensitive information until it can be properly destroyed.

Confidential waste bags are secure containers for disposing of sensitive documents. They are sealed and transported directly to a shredding facility, ensuring the confidentiality and compliance of the disposal process.

Contact one of our reputable shredding professionals to accommodate your various needs, from one-time to regular services, facilitating secure document destruction.

Yes, we provide detailed records documenting the secure destruction of your documents, where the documents have been collected, and the weight of the documents, the quantity of bags/archive boxes. Offering transparency and compliance assurance.

You will be sent a Certificate of Destruction.

Yes, we offer regularly scheduled shredding services, ensuring continuous and reliable management of your document destruction needs. This helps maintain ongoing compliance and information security. Regular collections are often in securely closed bags or lockable consoles.

We are open on a Tuesday 10am – 2pm.  You do not need to make an appointment, but please just call on the day to make sure we are open just in case of an eventuality.  We do try to put this on our Roupcycle Facebook Business page if there is an issue.

There is parking in front of the warehouse so we can assist with carrying bags and boxes of paper. Your bags or boxes will be weighed and shredded in front of you. The shredder is near the shutter of our premises, so you can watch safely (please do not enter the premises).

We hear this all the time and then ask; do you have a letterbox and receive post? Do you have a printer? Do you write on post it notes or in a note pad?

If yes to any of these questions, then are you staying GDPR compliant with your customers information which could include their name, contact details and confidential data.  This information can not be disposed of in the general waste or recycling bin.