Upcoming Events

CHARLBURY SHRED-IN
Saturday 4th December 2010 10.00am-12.00pm

The ALLShred mobile shredding truck will be at the Spendlove car park from 10.00am to 12.00 noon on Saturday 4th December 2010 to shred your documents in cooperation with Charlbury Area Waste Action Group CAWAG.

Please collect a heavy-duty sack from Charlbury Post Office to contain your material.

Payment is £5.00 per sack on the day and £2.00 of this will go to the nominated charity.

If anybody has large quantities of material that require destruction please contact Ian MacKay at ALLShred Limited on 0800 389 5155.

SHRED-IN at WYCHWOOD SCHOOL
Saturday 6th November 2010 9:00am-11:00am

Reduce the risk of Identity Theft

Dispose of confidential and personal documents with high security. Make a contribution to the Wychwood Primary School funds at the same time.

Collect an ALLShred heavy duty sack(s) from Milton under Wychwood Post Office.

Bring your full sack(s) to Wychwood School on 6th Movember 2010 between 9.00am and 11.00 am and the contents will be shredded in minutes in the ALLShred mobile shredding truck while you wait. When complete you will receive a Certificate of Destruction.

The charge is £5.00 including VAT per sack payable on the day. For every sack shredded £2.00 will be paid to the school.

If you have larger quantities of material to be shredded, please contact Ian Mackay at ALLShred Limited on 0800 389 5155 to make arrangements.

News

AllShred supports Charlbury Area Waste Action Group CAWAG.

5th June 2010

The first Charlbury Shred-In of 2010 took place on Saturday 5th June at the Spendlove car park. No sooner had the Allshred mobile shredding truck arrived just before 10.00am when the first resident arrived with two full sacks of documents for shredding. The shredding was done, the Certificate of Destruction completed and signed and one more person was confident that their personal information could not get into the wrong hands and be used by criminals.

By the time the Shred-In closed at 12.00 noon 22 individuals had bought 383 kg of documents to be shredded and £72.00 was handed over to Christine Elliott for the selected charity, the Charlbury Community Centre Appeal. The shredded fragments were shipped back to a UK paper mill for recycling into household tissues a few days later. This weight of 383 kg is the equivalent of 5.75 trees that are recycled.

Several individuals have retained the heavy-duty sack supplied by Allshred so that they can continue clearing out old papers and be ready for the December Charlbury Shred In.

Christine Elliott’s faith in the Charlbury community was rewarded and the Charlbury Shred-In is set to be a bi-annual event. The next date is Saturday 4th December 2010.

Shred-In Success

The ‘Shred-In’ at Wychwood School on Saturday 8th May was a success with a useful contribution to the school fund. Several new users bought along their sacks of documents and were delighted by the speed of service. Regular users of the bi-annual ‘Shred-In’ ensured an increase in the total weight shredded to 316kg. This means the equivalent of 5 trees recycled.

First Secure Shredding company in England to get NAID AAA Certification

Feb 6th 2009

ALLShred – the first shredding company in England to achieve NAID AAA Certification.

Just two years after it started operations, Chipping Norton Oxfordshire based ALLShred Limited is the first shredding company in England to achieve NAID AAA Certification. This follows a detailed audit against the stringent requirements of the international standard carried out by an independent security inspector. The NAID AAA criteria are recognised as the most demanding of all assessments of secure shredding operations in the aspects covered. As well as an annual audit visit, companies will receive an unannounced audit during the year to ensure that the demanding standards are maintained.

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Business Waste

New regulations from 30th October 2007

30th October 2007

New regulations for business waste apply from 30th October under the EU wide Landfill directive.

The purpose of the rules is to

* Increase the level of recycling and recovery

* Reduce potentially polluting emissions from landfill.

If any of your business waste currently goes to landfill, you are now obliged to treat it

This may not be as onerous as it sounds. The simplest and easiest form of treatment is to segregate the different waste streams. e.g separate paper, cardboard, plastics. This will enable you to recycle the individual materials and thereby reduce the volume of waste sent to landfill.

The legal definition of treatment requires three elements (the ‘three point test’)

1. It must be a physical, thermal, chemical or biological process

2. It must change the characteristics of the waste

3. It must do so in order to :
* Reduce its volume, or
* Reduce its hazardous nature, or
* Facilitate its handling, or
* Enhance its recovery.

On-site secure shredding qualifies as a form of treatment under the regulations. Many of our regular customers use ALLShred both to protect the integrity of their information at disposal and to ensure recycling of their paper to meet their environmental obligations.

If you want to know how you can meet your new obligation, please contact ALLShred to see if our services can help.

Henmans liberates 125 large trees from former offices

9th June 2007

Henmans LLP has taken advantage of its move to new offices to clear old files out of the basement of its former building in Oxford city centre, shredding over 8 metric tonnes of old files that were no longer required. This volume of paper equates to around 125 large trees. The shredded material will be shipped to a paper mill to be recycled into household tissues. Using recycled paper in this way to make tissues instead of virgin pulp uses 65% less energy and 50% less water.

The clearance and shredding operation was carried out onsite by ALLShred Ltd, mobile shredding specialists, who arrived every evening of the clearance with a large shredding truck that parked on the street. The files were wheeled out of the basement at a rate of 1700kg per hour in special sealed wheelie bins, and shredded on the spot into tiny fragments that were then held in the secure compartment of the ALLShred truck before being shipped to the papermill.

Julia Iball, managing partner, commented, “We are instituting a firmwide community and social responsibility policy, and ensuring that our waste is carefully managed and properly recycled is a part of that. ALLShred offered us a service that was not only completely secure but allowed us to find a useful home for our waste paper.”

Ian MacKay, managing director of ALLShred, added, “This is a good example of how a responsible firm can ensure the absolute security of its client information and make a worthwhile contribution to reducing the demands on our environment.”