Any document shredding service recommendations?

[jt196]

Hi all - I've a one-off document shredding requirement. It's about 7 bags of stacks of paper about 70-80cm high.

I either hire an industrial-strength shredder and get a temp in for a few days or pay someone to take it all away.

Taking it away seems like the better solution to me - any suggestions of reliable shredding services that do pickups in the South East? I'm down in Kent near Tonbridge.

Thanks in advance!

 

[smeone]

Try Shre-It

 

[smeone]

I mean Shread-it

 

[accounting-help]

Shread It and Iron Mountain.

 

[cholland]

We used Shred Easy - would recommend.

 

[LeanneDonaldson]

Hi,

I’m sure you now have this issue resolved.
It really depends where about you need the service.
There are many national providers, but also there are some very competitively priced local suppliers.

Kind Regards

Leanne

 

[chrisbuckley]

There are many shredders who will come on-site with their van and shred it before your eyes.

I can't comment on who is best because I was with one company who cancelled last minute and couldn't get back out for 2 weeks. In the end I shredded everything by hand using a mains operated small office shredder with copious amounts of oil which was a right PITA!

edit: I have found the details, I was otherwise quite happy with their service. What annoyed me about the cancellation was that I was last on the guy's round and because he was late, he went over his alotted hours or something. I waited all day for this mug to turn up!

Their prices are competitive though, this was back in 2009:

shredcare.co.uk

5, 10 or 25 sacks: £39.50, £49.50 or £99.50. This is for collection (not on-site) and you get a certificate of destruction.

They also do on-site shredding, most places need you to do price of minimum 10 sacks or 200kg for on-site shredding, shredcare do:

" initial charge of £9.75 (plus VAT) for the delivery of the sacks, there is a call out charge of £49.50 (plus VAT) and the cost per sack is £4.00 (plus VAT). The Certificate of Destruction is free."

At the time I had 2 sacks so I was happy to pay 70 quid to save me a week's worth of shredding manually, max 6 sheets at a time!

Apart from the cock-up, I thought they seemed like a decent company.

 

[IGM_Computers]

I mean Shread-it

Yep they're excellent. We had them for a full day once. Their shredder can take anything!

 

[Storage King]

We have used Shred-All, who collect from site, then take away to be shredded. They charged us per box and as we had quite a lot, the price per box was actually very reasonable.

They also dropped off pallets to our site before hand for us to load the boxes onto for collection.

 

[profitxchange]

How sensitive is the information? Is it worth anything to anyone else? Why not take it down to your recycling centre and drop it into the paper waste. it will go straight to reprocessing.