On Site Shredding vs. Off Site Shredding

On site (mobile) shredding provides the most secure method of destruction for all of your sensitive documents and materials. When you partner with Secure Document Destruction, your sensitive documents and materials are completely destroyed inside our mobile shredding truck just a few feet from the front door of your business. Your company documents and materials have a useful life cycle from the creation of these documents until they are destroyed. With SDD, their useful lifecycle ends in your business parking lot, not at an off site facility located miles away from your business.

Document security experts suggest that organizations using haul-away (or off site) shredding services face increased risk and liability by severing the chain-of-custody when disposing of confidential information. With an off site shredding service, your confidential documents and materials are at risk from the moment they leave your place of business until they reach their final off site shredding destination and are destroyed. An off site service truck may make 25 service stops per day. If you employ off site services, your confidential documents are compromised each time new documents are placed into the back of the off site truck. When your documents are unloaded at the off site facility, your confidential materials may be handled by multiple parties out of sight of your organization, thus leaving your organization vulnerable to fraud that may result in irreversible damage. When your confidential documents and materials are shredded on site by Secure Document Destruction, your materials are completely destroyed and uncompromised before our mobile shredding truck leaves your parking lot.

Secure Document Destruction’s on site shredding process is more secure than having your confidential documents shredded at an off site facility. With fewer steps in the process, your documents are more secure. Your confidential documents and materials are too important to put them at risk with an off site shredding company.