Q: Why pay a shredding service when we can shred our documents internally?

A: When you use General Shredding, you benefit in three ways: A) Your employees don't see your confidential documents B) Our shredders are powerful and fast, which saves you labor dollars C) Your shredded paper is recycled, helping the environment and saving trees.

Q: Why should I use General Shredding?

A: General Shredding is an affiliate of General Funding Corporation, which has handled millions of confidential documents, tax returns, and financial statements since 1981. General Shredding employees are insured, bonded, and trained in the legal requirements of information retention and destruction.

Q: What size jobs is General Shredding capable of doing?

A: General Shredding can handle "purge" shredding jobs involving thousands of pounds of paper and documents. We can also schedule a monthly pickup of less than 100 pounds.

Q: Isn't off-site shredding cheaper than using General Shredding's on-site service?

A: No. Off-site shredding is not secure because you lose the control and supervision available on-site, where you can witness destruction of documents. The pennies per pound you may save are not worth it if even one confidential document is stolen.

Q: What geographical area do you cover?

A: We cover southeastern Michigan and metro Detroit for regularly scheduled pickups and the Great Lakes states for larger "purge" jobs.

Q: Do we need to remove clips, staples, and other fasteners before paper can be shredded?

A: No. General Shredding is happy to handle this for you.

Q: What is the optimal way to comply with the federal legislation (HIPAA, FACTA, GLBA) affecting document retention and identity theft?

A: The optimal method of making certain you have complied with HIPAA, FACTA,and GLBA is to utilize the insured, bonded, well trained and professional on-site shredding services of General Shredding.

Q: How can we be certain our confidential documents have been destroyed?

A: Your employees insert documents into our locked "one-way" containers. At regular intervals, an insured General Shredding representative will remove the secure bag and destroy the documents on-site in our mobile shredding facility. You are welcome to witness the destruction process.