What would it cost you or your company if highly sensitive and vital information were to fall into the hands of your competition? A former employee? Anyone who may be interested in compromising you or your company?

Could you loose customers? A competitive edge? Could it mean a lawsuit? Embarrassment?

That is where Shredeez® comes in. We provide you with the security of knowing that your confidential materials are destroyed completely, right at your doorstep. From our free locked security consoles to our Customer Service Representatives to our mobile shredding trucks, your security is ensured.

Shredding has become an important practice in Canada with the recently passed Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act that requires organizations to securely destroy confidential information that is no longer required.

The Act cites shredding paper as the preferred practice. Shredeez® ensures proper management of important documents and products that should not re-enter the sales channels, protecting a company's brand reputation and value, from collection to secure destruction.

Shredeez® ensures the highest level of security by shredding all physical documents, creating a non-identifiable spaghetti-sized paper by-product, which is then recycled to create other paper products such as cardboard boxes or grocery bags, or is donated to local farmers for bedding material for their animals. Shredeez® manages this entire process, protecting against accidental or intentional breach of privacy and identity theft.

Outsourcing document management and destruction offers companies more security and reliability, and is extremely cost-effective when compared with other alternatives. Litigation over stolen personal and sensitive information is extremely costly and much more expensive than the cost of secure destruction.

The Social Security Administration and the Federal Trade Commission have reported that the fraudulent use of stolen Social Security numbers has led to an annual cost of nearly one billion dollars for individuals and financial institutions. A corporation can protect itself from creating harm for its customers by insuring that it handles all sensitive documents with care.

An important question you should ask yourself is "who is responsible for shredding our sensitive documents and files?"

If you are doing it yourself, you may be spending valuable time with this tedious task while you could be focusing on more important matters.

If that task is delegated to an employee, although we all attempt to trust our employees to the highest degree, is it possible that that employee may find it lucrative to sell confidential information?

An excellent low cost alternative to doing your own shredding is to hire a reputable shredding service. The document storage bins Shredeez® provides have high security locks to prevent unauthorized access. While this may present a problem if you need to retrieve a document accidentally placed into the shred bin, it does provide a higher level of security.

Last summer, the software giant Oracle Corp. admitted to hiring detectives to peruse the garbage of rival Microsoft Corp.

Officials at computer chip maker Transmeta Corp. said snoopers were routinely shooed from their garbage bins as the company developed its Crusoe chip.

The Supreme Court has ruled that garbage is fair game - toss a customer's credit card or medical record into the trash and anyone can take it legally, even if the ultimate purpose is illegal.

Any company can see the need for secure document destruction. If you still aren't convinced, have a look at the interesting facts that follow...then have a look at the FAQ page...last, but not least, as a final decision maker, take a tour of your garbage bin or through your outside garbage container and see what kind of documents you are throwing out that could possibly be a danger to you or your customer's confidentiality.

Some interesting facts...

Archaeologists have read the headlines of 40 year old newspapers removed from landfills because little decomposition takes place in a landfill. An environmental and security issue indeed.

Every company, regardless of the product or service, generates confidential information from sources such as client lists, payroll reports, client records, marketing information, business plans, new product information, etc.

Making one ton of recycled paper uses approximately 60% of the energy required to make one ton of virgin paper.

The FBI estimates the theft of proprietary information costs corporations anywhere from 24 to 100 billion dollars annually.

It is estimated that 80% of office waste is paper.

The Supreme Court has ruled that trash, once discarded, becomes public property.