Shredding Equipment
Different Types Of Paper Shredders And Services
Though naturally all paper shredding equipment are meant to shred your documents for you, they do this in different ways and at different rates - so you need to choose which one will suit your needs the best.
Paper shredding machines are necessities particularly in the US where a Supreme Court ruling (namely California v. Greenwood) set the rule that once you deposit sensitive documents outside your office or residence as trash, legally anyone can go through that trash and get what they want, based on the Fourth Amendment.
This means that if you make it a practice of placing sensitive documents in your trash (like old credit cards, old Automated Teller Cards, and bank statements that have expired or that are just plain old) you are literally opening yourself up to the possibility of identity theft.
This ruling by the US Supreme Court proved to be a boon to the shredding equipment industry, so that many individuals and organizations started either buying or renting document shredding equipment for their document security needs.
Types of Paper Shredder Equipment
For those with small-volume to medium-volume document shredding needs, you can probably get the personal or office type of paper shredder which can be easily transported from location to location within your office, and are relatively easy to use, and easy to maintain.But if your document shredding needs are pretty high-volume (maybe even massive) then you may want to look into the mobile document shredding services instead.
One basic reason for opting for these mobile shredding services is that your current office or industrial space or place of residence probably was not made to accommodate huge shredding equipment or to store the vast amounts of documents these high-volume machines can process quickly and efficiently.
Another reason is, unless your organization is a huge corporation or organization, your organization will probably not need a high-volume paper shredding equipment around nor could you afford it.
It is different for the big corporate players and large organizations though - they would probably be able to purchase paper shredders of that size and scope in service and will need to, to assure the best security for their sensitive documents that they can.
But for the smaller document shredding services users, it probably makes better financial and operational sense to just hire mobile document shredding services instead.
Mobile Document Shredding Services
An average mobile document shredding truck can process as much as 5,000 pounds of paper per hour with a maximum internal storage capacity of 15,000 pounds of shredded paper material.That means it is very likely one visit from the truck is sufficient to shred all your documents set aside for shredding at one time - and then carry off the shredded material for secure disposal. You may have to take into account the rate at which each truck can function because certain service providers do charge clients per minute of operation (probably because of fuel consumption.)
Also, certain people in your organization who happen to be in charge of discarded document security have to be present during the actual shredding. This is to comply with document security laws and also to provide assurance to the other members of your organization that all necessary steps were taken to shred the documents properly.
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