residential shredding Services

We bring our secure & professional services to your residential location to handle document shredding, whether it's personal, business, or both.
Residential Shredding Location

residential shredding Services

We bring our secure & professional services to your residential location to handle document shredding, whether it's personal, business, or both.
  1. Secure Business Shredding
  2. Residential Shredding

Paper Shredding Services For Residential Locations

Bulk Paper Shredding

Purge a large amount of sensitive documents, either onsite while you watch, or picked up and shredded at one of our secure facilities.

Service Options

  • Onsite shredding
    • The contents are emptied into the shred truck and destroyed while you watch
  • Offsite shredding
    • Documents are transported to the nearest shredding facility
  • Flex Bin Shred
    • Convenient shred bin rental service. No boxing required. Fill it at your own pace, and we'll securely shred it.

Why choose this option?

  • If you have accumulated a large amount of documents that need to be destroyed at once
  • If you doing an office clean out
  • If you’re moving or closing
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Recurring Paper Shredding

Get your sensitive documents picked up and shredded at a schedule that works for you.

Service Options

  • Offsite shredding
    • Documents are transported to the nearest shredding facility

Why choose this option?

  • If you consistantly produce confidential or sensitive documents
  • Maintain compliance with current data laws and regulations including:
    • HIPAA
    • FACTA
    • GLB
    • SOX
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RESIDENTIAL drop-off service
Perfect for disposing of a box or two as well as individual documents

Why Shred?

  Declutter office

  Save time & reclaim space

  Protect employee and customer information

  Ensure your business is compliant with the law

  Grow customer confidence

It is the safest way to destroy unnecessary paper documents that contain confidential information.

Shredding takes away the hassle of moving files boxes around your offices and frees up storage space, all while keeping your employees and customers information safe and secure.

For the following businesses, document/paper shredding is not just suggested, it’s the law.

  • healthcare organization
  • law firm
  • financial service provider
  • establishment that deals with extremely confidential information

WHY IRON MOUNTAIN?

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Nationwide Coverage

More than 73,000 customers throughout North America rely on Iron Mountain's secure shredding services. We shred over 40,000 pounds of material per month throughout our network of secure shredding facilities and our recycling efforts helped save over 4 million trees every year.

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Purchase Online or Work with an Expert

Your time is valuable, we understand. We also understand that you know what is best for you and your business. That is why we created straightforward document shredding services that you can purchase directly online - anytime, anywhere - or work directly with an expert.

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Leader in Document Security

Since 1951, Iron Mountain continues to be a leader in secure document shredding. Our shredding services are NAID’s AAA-certified from i-SIGMA, which ensures Iron Mountain meets the highest legal and compliance regulations required for secure information destruction.

CERTIFICATIONS

Protect your brand and reduce information risk with Iron Mountain 

There’s a lot of options out there when it comes to choosing a document shredding service.  Here’s why you should choose Iron Mountain. 

NAID AAA Certification from i-SIGMA

NAID from i-SIGMA is the only recognized independent source for security and ethics standards in the document destruction industry. NAID’s AAA-certification from i-SIGMA  ensures Iron Mountain meets the highest legal and compliance regulations required for secure information destruction.

Services tailored to your needs  

With the free Iron Mountain Connect online portal you’ll be able to:

  • Manage your shredding services by viewing schedule visits and pending shredding orders at your convenience
  • Make on-demand shredding service requests, add or close locations and change the frequency of your shredding service 
On-demand reports that help you manage compliance and reduce the cost of your shred program 

Our Shred Usage Report is a valuable tool, providing the insight you need to better manage your program. By reviewing this report and identifying key trends over time, you’ll be able to correct potential compliance issues before they impact your business and identify opportunities to reduce costs. Learn more

Proven workflows that deliver the highest level of security 

Our operating shredding procedures and secure chain-of-custody processes are validated through decades of experience. Our InControl technology captures key information at the time of shred service at your location — including barcode scanning, shred container volume capture, and electronic signature and time/date stamp— providing you greater control and, more importantly, the peace of mind that comes from knowing your sensitive information is always secure. Learn more

Trained and vetted personnel 

Iron Mountain shred personnel pass comprehensive background checks and receive rigorous, ongoing training on secure shredding services. They’re experts in their field and take pride in knowing they’re not just shredding documents—they’re protecting your business. 

World-class facilities  

Iron Mountain shred facilities provide some of the industry’s more advanced systems to safeguard your information, including:

  • strict visitor policies
  • 24x7, closed-circuit television surveillance cameras
  • intrusion detection and environmental control systems
Environmentally responsible

After securely shredding your documents, we recycle all shredded material, and we provide a “Green Report” to demonstrate your contribution to global sustainability efforts. Learn more

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Privacy+ Certification
from i-SIGMA
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NAID AAA
Certification
from i-SIGMA
Iron Mountain's Sentinel training program was awarded the Learning in Practice Gold Award.
Researchers voted Iron Mountain the #1 Shredding Service.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

The following CAN be securely shredded:

  • Clean paper, any color and any size
  • Blueprints
  • Newspapers
  • Magazines
  • Brochures
  • Mail — including window envelopes
  • Photographs
  • File folders, any color (no need to remove staples, paper clips, rubber bands, or small binder clips)

The following can NOT be securely shredded:

  • Cardboard
  • Wet or moldy material
  • Telephone books
  • Hardcover books
  • Plastic bags and packing material
  • Computer discs, CDs, DVDs
  • Backup and VCR tapes
  • Transparencies
  • ID badges and driver’s licenses
  • Microfiche and Microfilm
  • X-rays
  • Batteries (no batteries of any kind)
  • USB thumb drives
  • Computer parts
  • Printer and photocopier parts
  • Trash or hazardous materials
  • Biohazardous and Medical Waste (including needles and sharps)
  • Metals (including binders, hanging folders with metal hangers)
Secure shredding allows businesses to safely destroy unnecessary paper based documents that may contain confidential information. Shredding can help prevent identity theft or data breach, free up space, and recycle documents.
  • Once you place your order online, you will be contacted by one of our Customer Support teammates to schedule the service date.
  • If using the Offsite service, all material that needs to be destroyed should be placed in a dry box with a lid for our driver to pick up.
  • If using the Onsite service, all material that needs to be destroyed should be removed from their current storage location and easily accessible by our driver when they arrive with the mobile shredding vehicle.
We do service most residential locations, so please contact us to verify that your location is accessible.
  • If using the Offsite service, paper is picked up from your location and transported to a shredding facility for final shredding. You can request a final "certificate of destruction" once the service is complete.
  • If using the Onsite service, paper will be shredded onsite using a specially equipped mobile shredding vehicle.
You can request a final "certificate of destruction" once the service is complete.

Contact Iron Mountain

Our Customer Support section can help provide you with the quickest answers to your questions, or feel free to contact us at your convenience.

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Contact Iron Mountain

Our Customer Support section can help provide you with the quickest answers to your questions, or feel free to contact us at your convenience.