One off purge shredding service

The ‘paperless office’ has been talked about for more than forty years. The reality is that we have printed and stored vast quantities of paper documents every year and this trend has slowed hardly at all. As a result organisations and homes have retained papers that can be discarded at some point.

Many companies have well structured filing and archive systems complete with planned destruction dates for each category of document. Whether the archive is at your office or a separate storage location, ALLShred can visit to carry out your archive shredding when required. An annual visit to destroy another year’s old records is a recurring request. For large archive clearance jobs the high performance AXO shredder used by ALLShred means the work is completed more quickly and with a lower carbon footprint than our competitors.

When businesses relocate or reorganise their offices they always discover paperwork and records that have lain untouched for years. ALLShred can help you plan the clearout of redundant papers before the move so that you take only the minimum to the new location. We can advise on the recommended retention periods for different types of document. We supply heavy-duty polypropylene sacks in which to collect material for shredding when you are weeding out filing cabinets and racks. Companies that switch to digital storage methods have used us to shred the old paper files after scanning.

Individuals use the ALLShred service as well as businesses. For many a house move is the opportunity to clear the old personal financial records they have stored carefully for years. In other cases bereavement has left a collection of records containing sensitive data. As more people work from home so the requirement increases for a secure shredding service to prevent paperwork taking over the family home. For small quantities see the Bring To Us service.

ALLShred work to reduce the amount of work you need to do. Your main task is to identify and segregate what is to be destroyed.  Material can be left in archive boxes which will be returned for reuse. Our shredder is powerful enough to destroy a full lever arch file in seconds. There is no need to worry about removing staples and paperclips. We do ask our customers to minimise the quantity of plastic sleeves and wallets as the plastic contaminates the paper when it goes for recycling.

Purge visits are arranged at a time that suits you and to minimise disruption to your operations and the public. Visits can be made out of hours to avoid parking restrictions where required. In some cases we will arrange a series of visits over a period of weeks or months while you carry out a scanning project.