Commercial Shredding & Media Destruction Services

We provide a secure, confidential, reliable and environmentally responsible paper document and magnetic media destruction service.

  • Datashred offers:
  • Contract between the Data Controller & Data Processor.
  • Complete destruction of paper, and other media.
  • Trained personnel and highly secure facilities and processes.
  • Documented chain-of-custody for accountability.
  • Certificate of Destruction issued monthly.
  • Secure, environmentally friendly disposition of shredded materials.
  • Witnessed destruction, as required.
  • 240l Wheelie bins, slotted and lockable.
  • Hessian Sacks – supply & collection.
  • Document Storage boxes – collection and shredding.

At regularly scheduled intervals, our uniformed operatives collect the bins, sacks or storage boxes and provide you with a collection note detailing a seal reference for each item. The items are then transferred to secure vehicles. Materials are delivered to our secure shredding centre, where the sacks and bins seals are logged prior to destruction.

After materials are shredded beyond practicable reconstruction, paper is sent to pulping mills for recycling.

  • Our Building Security Features
  • Sophisticated entry systems (Bewator) providing an audit trail of all door access by individuals recording entry times. Access can be enabled, or restricted, by individual or user group at each door by time or location.
  • Intruder alarm systems conforming to BS4737:Part 1 installed and monitored by an alarm receiving centre approved to BS5979 by a certified body.
  • CCTV coverage.
  • Regular inspection to ISO 9001 by our UKAS accredited certification body.
  • Staff vetting, applicable to full- and part-time employees, in accordance with BS7858.