Special Projects / Purge Cleanouts: A one-time purge of information can be scheduled for moves, tax season or office cleanouts.

What To Shred?

• Anything Confidential and/or Private
• Legal Contracts
• Budget Information
• Bids and Proposals
• Financial Records
• Applications
• Customer Lists/Contracts
• Training Manuals/Information
• Advertising/Marketing Plans
• New Product Information
• Payroll Records
• Medical Records and Charts
• Employee Information
• Supplier Information
• Corporate Records/Meeting Minutes

Did You Know?

• Recycling one ton of shredded paper can save up to 17 mature trees?
• Producing a ton of recycled paper uses 60% less energy, and 60% less water than non-recycled paper?
• Producing a ton of recycled paper reduces air pollution 70% compared to non-recycled paper?
• Shredding enables your company to reduce waste and energy usage while conserving natural resources?

Secure document destruction by General Shredding is the easiest, most affordable way to showcase your business’ corporate environmental responsibility.

• Avoid increasingly aggresive state and federal sanctions by securely shredding all confidential information.
• With identity theft and corporate espionage as the fastest growing forms of fraud, General Shredding’s secure destruction solutions are vital to your company’s reputation and bottom line.

All businesses must comply with laws designed to protect individual and customer privacy or face increasingly aggresive sanctions, including:

Fair and Accurate Transaction Act (FACTA)
FACTA was designed to reduce the risk of consumer fraud and identity theft. FACTA applies to any person or company that possesses or handles personal information utilized for a business purpose. This includes:

• Consumer reporting agencies
• Resellers of consumer reports
• Lenders
• Insurers
• Auto dealers
• Government agencies
• Mortgage brokers

Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
HIPAA requires healthcare organizations to maintain reasonable and appropriate technical and physical safeguards to prevent intentional or unintentional use or disclosure of protected health information. Protected information includes patient medical records, patient logs, insurance, billing and other personally identifiable health information.

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
GLBA requires financial institutions to protect the privacy of consumer information and requires companies to give privacy notices that detail information sharing practices.

The Economic Espionage Act
The EEA protects company trade secrets which includes all forms and types of financial, business, scientific, technical, economic, and engineering information, if the owner has taken reasonable measures to keep such information private and not accessible to the public.

The Patriot Act
The Patriot Act places specific requirements on companies to ensure they have procedures for identifying customer account information, the ability to verify customer identity, and maintain records of information used to verify identity.

Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)
SOX introduced stringent new rules with the stated objective: “to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the securities law.”

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.