No one ever thinks of garbage as valuable, but to an identity theft, your trash is a means to steal your personal information. With all of the bills that we pay and the credit card offers that we turn down, there is a paper trail of garbage that contains some of our most personal information.

If someone were to go through your trash and find an unaccepted credit card offer, they might only need to respond to the credit card company and activate the card. I-Shred is here to make sure your valuable information and documents are disposed of properly, so you never have to worry about identity theft by trash.

Have documents that need to be disposed of? Bring it to I-Shred, we will shred it while you watch.

Also known as the FACT Act. Was signed into law on December 4, 2003. In general, the Act amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”). The Act contains a number of provisions intended to combat consumer fraud and related crimes, including identity theft, and to assist its victims. Specifically the act requires the destruction of PAPERS CONTAINING CONSUMER INFORMATION. It is hard to imagine any business or organization that is not bound by this law.

A) Standard. Any person who maintains or otherwise possesses consumer information, or any compilation of consumer information, for a business purpose must properly dispose of such information by taking reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the information in connection with its disposal.
B) Examples. Reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of consumer information in connection with its disposal would include implementing and monitoring compliance with policies and procedures that require the burning, pulverizing, or shredding of papers containing consumer information so that the information cannot practicably be read or reconstructed.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 regulates the healthcare industry in the United States and assures that healthcare organizations will be responsible for the secure electronic transmission, secure storage and disposal of patient information.

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (GLB) mandates that financial institutions that obtain nonpublic personal information through the normal course of their business must develop precautions to ensure the security and confidentiality of customer records and information, and to protect against unauthorized access to or use of such records. This includes secure storage, disposal, and sharing of confidential information. Who must comply with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act: Banking and credit issuing, Insurance, Stocks, bonds, and investing, Financial service providers.

Let’s say you have 500 boxes, or 15,000 pounds, to be shredded. We come to your site, shred for 2 hours, then we’re gone. Our truck can handle that amount in one trip.

The other guys’ trucks can only shred 3500 pounds per hour and their trucks can carry a maximum of 9000 pounds of paper. They shred for three hours, then drive to the recycling plant where they dispose of the paper. They drive back to your place and shred for another 1-1/2 hours. Adding drive time, your entire day can be eaten up.
That’s how we compare.