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Did You Sell a Business or Close a Practice and Need Shredding Services?
Selling a business, retiring, or closing a professional practice is a major undertaking. There are customers or patients to notify, accounts to close, equipment to...
September 23, 2026
Are You Helping Your Parents Clean Out a House and Need Shredding Services?
Helping your parents clean out their house can be a much bigger project than expected. Whether they are downsizing, moving to a smaller home, preparing...
September 16, 2026
What Is On-Site Document Shredding?
If you have old business records, financial documents, medical files, customer information, or personal papers that need to be securely destroyed, on-site document shredding is...
September 8, 2026
How Do You Manage an Ongoing Shredding Program in Your Office?
Every office creates documents that contain information that should not end up in the regular trash or recycling bin. Employee records, customer information, invoices, financial...
September 1, 2026
How Do I Know If My Documents Are Actually Shredded With a Professional Shredding Service?
When you hire a professional shredding company, you are trusting them with documents that may contain some of your most sensitive information. Tax records, medical...
August 24, 2026
Your Records Retention Period Ended. What Happens Next?
Records retention schedules give businesses a much-needed timeline for how long different documents should be kept. But eventually, that timeline runs out. When a box...
August 18, 2026
Recent Posts
Why You Should Secure Your Medical Records
Better safe than sorry – being careless with patient records can lead to unpleasant consequences for health care providers. According to Ponemon Institute, the cost...
November 21, 2017
Shredding vs Recycling
Shredding vs Recycling Recycling does not mean Secure Document Shredding Giving your confidential documents to a recycling company does not mean your private information is...
November 16, 2017
Recycling Does Not Mean Secure Document Shredding
Recycling Does Not Mean Secure Document Shredding Giving your documents to a recycling company does not mean your private info is being handled and destroyed...
October 30, 2017
Charity Shredding Event is a Huge Success
When you’re a local business, that comes with a lot of responsibility. It’s important to support the people who have helped you over the years....
October 12, 2017
Protect Your Identity with a Shredding Service
Protect Your Identity with a Shredding Service The recent Equifax hack was a wake-up call for many Americans. Personal info for millions of people was...
October 12, 2017
Our Convenient Services Save Time Shredding Documents
Our Convenient Services Save Time Shredding Documents Shredding documents holding sensitive information is an important part of preserving your data security. If you own a...
August 22, 2017
How Are We Going Green With Our Shredding Services?
How Are We Going Green With Our Shredding Services? From the home office to the professional production environment to the elementary classroom–wherever you look today,...
August 10, 2017
What Does HIPAA Really Say About Information Security?
What Does HIPAA Really Say About Information Security? HIPAA regulations require healthcare organizations to keep patient information secure and private, but what does this act...
August 4, 2017
Disposing Your Hard Drives the Secure Way
Disposing Your Hard Drives the Secure Way Technology plays a huge role in our lives. We use it to manage our paperwork, personal finances, businesses,...
June 21, 2017
Document Disposal on Your Schedule
Document Disposal on Your Schedule As light as a sheet of paper is, a drawer full of them can get heavy fast. If you have...
June 12, 2017
You’re Not Being as Safe as You Think
If you follow our blog regularly, you know that FileShred is proud to be NAID certified. NAID (National Association for Information Destruction) is an international...
May 5, 2017
Is Your Company at Risk Due to Improper Document Shredding?
Most people don’t often think about information theft. They take security measures for their home, their car, their money, but it doesn’t usually occur to...
March 16, 2017
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