Not all shredders are the same

If you’re in a company or a public organisation like a charity or government institution you’re going to accrue paper waste.  Despite our best efforts, moving away from paper to a paperless  society still remains something of an achievable dream.  While email and systems like Teams and Zoom and also encrypted messaging systems such as WhatsApp have made it easier to connect with us, The letter and documented file somewhere in a cabinet still remains prevalent to the world of business and finance.  It also remains prevalent in the world of our public records.  Government institutions are not entitled to keep certain amounts of data about us.  This also applies to public and private sector firms.  We also have our own personal responsibility to make sure that documents that are sent to us are disposed of in the correct manner.

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In most cases a standard shredder would have been the simple answer.  Early models of the Machines simply featured a horizontal shredding system that divided the paper up into long thin strands.  This was perfectly fine to some degree however with patience and with some luck and not a little skill it was possible to piece together the information that had been on the paper in the first place.

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Enter then companies like printwaste.co.uk/confidential-shredding/confidential-shredding-birmingham a Confidential paper shredding Birmingham based company. It was recognised that cross shredding for extremely confidential information was required.  These machines destroy the paper rendering it completely useless to anyone attempting to see what had been  originally.