
Achieve corporate and fiscal peace of mind by choosing a professional shredding service.
In the UK over the past ten days there’s been plenty hitting the headlines about cyber attacks on high street names, and we can see how the infiltration of systems and theft of confidential data have the power to cripple operations for weeks. Those same brands will be hoping that it doesn’t stymy their inner workings, as indeed did happen to the British Library, an institution that is still in recovery mode following a catastrophic attack in October 2023.

But that’s in the digital world. Paper is not the same, is it?
Sure, paper is not the same. It doesn’t offer quite the same potential of multiple simultaneous access and injury points. However, it’s still not safe to assume that the general waste is the right place to dispose of any archive, cupboard or drawer clear-out. Documents related to nearly every aspect of your business are ripe for criminal pickings if they contain anything that gives names and personal information or your company’s intellectual property, an all-encompassing term for plans, research, marketing collateral, HR and accounts records, and so on, and so on.
Compliance with data protection regulations (yes, GDPR) is the name of part of the game. By choosing a professional secure shredding company like Restore Datashred, you can not only keep your information safe, but you can also hit corporate social responsibility goals by knowing that all your confidential waste will be responsibly recycled and re-enter the economy, not end up in landfill.
Here's how to combine security and good green practices to make the sustainability grade.
Lock down your data’s security
Your company’s credibility and success rely on your reputation, and that reputation stands on the shoulders of competence. That competence is reflected in your expertise, professionalism and your people. Unfortunately, people can be the least reliable component of a business’ success, especially if they do not have sturdy systems to use to make processes (almost) foolproof. This is where the need for data protection regulations enters the frame.
Information, personal and industrial, is valuable to thieves and bad actors which is why strict legislation and a regulatory requirement to comply with that law is enacted (GDPR is law!): it places a burden of proof of full lifecycle data protection on businesses. Full lifecycle means how you handle, store and get rid of sensitive information, with compliance to the fore.
As a professional secure shredding company, with an enviable track record on end-to-end security, Restore Datashred can flexibly create a collections and destruction schedule that works to keep your data safe, both at your workplace, in transit in one of our secure collection vehicles, and once it arrives at one of our security-access-only destruction centres.
We have all the industry systems and protocols in place, throughout chain of custody, and backed by our achievements.

ISO 27001

ISO 45001

ISO 14001

ISO 9001

BSIA

UKSSA
Put your sustainability goals on track
Question: When is waste not ‘waste’?
Answer: When you manage your business waste with your environmental commitments as your joint top priority so that it becomes a ‘resource’.
Paper is the recyclable resource, par excellence, being reusable up to seven times over before the fibres lose their strength. Shame not to make the most of their durability…
In fact, apart from a scant few materials and liquids, nearly ALL waste is a resource for re-purposing and re-use and choosing to ensure recycling as the end goal means you will find a solid footing in the circular economy. Recycled materials currently supply 40% of the world’s raw material needs, according to a recent Bureau of International Recycling study. That percentage could be, needs to be, far higher.

Restore Datashred’s promise of sending 0% to landfill
And that includes paper, textiles, digital media/devices, plastics, and metals – may seem like a drop in the ocean to you but across our customer base this adds up to tens of thousands of tonnes of materials regularly recycled through the economy
Not only that, but on an individual level, our customers also tell us that they find satisfaction and renewed commitment when they review their monthly, personalised, Environmental Report, in which savings on energy, water and CO2 emissions tick ever upwards, and provide proof positive of doing the right thing for all their business’ stakeholders.
Discover more about the benefits of paper, and other material, recycling here.
Why not bring data security and sustainable disposal under one roof? Our customer services team is highly approachable and knowledgeable and can help tailor our services, on site or off site, in every permutation, to suit you exactly. Give them a call on 0333 060 1112
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