Independent, Locally Owned and Operated
We provide our clients with a secure and convenient way to dispose of confidential documents and sensitive information.
- Only available in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick at this time.
Offering clients access to a one-stop shop for all their secure document destruction needs.
Secure
Shredding
AAA NAID
Certified
Socially & Environmentally Responsible
why shred?
Security
Secure Shredding
Secure shredding takes place at your location and you may witness the entire process on our truck’s closed-circuit TV.
State-of-the-art shredding trucks
Our shredding trucks are equipped with enclosed automatic bin tippers, eliminating any contact with your documents before they are destroyed.
Certification of Destruction
This will be provided as proof your documents have been destroyed and will be recycled.
Fully Insured and Bonded
Scotia Security Shredding is fully insured and bonded.
why shred?
Services
On-Time
Whether you need a scheduled or purge secure shredding service, we will be there when you expect us!
Fast Service
With our high-capacity trucks, we are in and out of your business quickly.
Reliable Support Team
Our team is friendly, uniformed, professional, and courteous.
why shred?
Convenience
We can Shred it all
No need to remove staples, paper clips, file folders, or paper report covers.
We take care of everything for you
Secure Document Destruction
Tailored to meet your Unique Needs
why shred?
Cost-Effective Solutions
Affordable Services
Our secure shredding services are significantly less expensive than in-house shredding and will free your staff to do more productive jobs.
Quick Turnaround
Our entire process takes just minutes, as opposed to the hours or days it would take to complete with an office shredder.
Secure Compliance
We help to reduce your liability by ensuring you comply with privacy laws
Complimentary Services
Our security containers are provided free of charge
why shred?
Socially Responsible
Regular and Timely Destruction of Sensitive Information
Proper Shredding Practices
We respect and prioritize protecting the privacy of both your company’s and your clients’ personal information.
Recycling Shredded Paper
All shredded paper is currently recycled in Canada and transformed into products that include tissues and boxboard lining. This helps to reduce landfills and save trees.
Security Shredding Services
We provide clients with a secure and convenient way to dispose of confidential documents and sensitive information.
who we serve
With multiple recycling centres in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland & Labrador.
We are able to provide customers across Atlantic Canada (and beyond!) with a one-stop-shop to solve all their recyclable material needs.
Small and Large Businesses
Municipalities
Government Organizations
Institutions
Individuals
Industry & Export
Manufacturers
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Frequently Asked Questions
Large, medium, and small businesses, independent professionals, and government organizations and institutions, including municipalities, school boards, hospitals, and universities looking to protect the privacy of their organization, their clients, and their customers.
Every company that has confidential information pertaining to customers, clients, patients, or suppliers is under obligation by law to ensure that any personal information is protected.
This information can be as simple as a name or telephone number, or as detailed as pertinent financial, contractual, medical, legal, or employment records. Regardless, by law all companies are mandated to destroy this information. Choosing not to do so increases potential liability to the holder of this information.
Every Business has Sensitive Information
There is no location, industry, or organization that is safe from compromising sensitive information. Whether you have customer lists, price lists, and sales statistics that would interest a competitor, or personal information that could be traced to a patient or client, small and large businesses, institutions, and many independent professionals have information that must remain confidential.
Daily Trash Poses a Serious Risk
Without the proper safeguards, information often ends up in garbage bins where it is readily available to anyone. This information is especially useful to competitors because it contains the details of current activities. Discarded daily records include phone messages, memos, misprinted forms, drafts of bids, and drafts of correspondence.
All businesses suffer potential exposure due to the need to discard these business records. The only means of minimizing this exposure is to make sure information is securely collected and destroyed. Scotia Security Shredding is able to perform secure document disposal on all your sensitive documents. This will help you or your company safely dispose of sensitive material, while freeing up employees to focus on more valuable tasks!
By destroying records according to a set schedule, a company limits potential security risks, eliminates liability concerns, and ensures that company information remains secret.
The period of time that confidential records are stored should be determined by a retention schedule that takes into consideration their useful value to the business, institution, or individual and the governing legal requirements. No record should be kept longer than this retention period.
By not adhering to a program of routinely destroying stored records, a company exhibits suspicious disposal practices that could be negatively construed in the event of litigation or audit. The PIPEDA Act also now mandates proper and secure document disposal.
From a risk management perspective, the only acceptable method of discarding stored records is to destroy them by a method that ensures the information is obliterated. Documenting the exact date that a record is destroyed is a prudent and recommended legal precaution.
It is also important to note that many commercial storage firms lack the equipment necessary to provide a shredding service, and therefore subcontract it out. As the owner responsible for the security of your company's information, you should select the vendor.
Outsourcing shredding services with us can solve the following:
Prevention of potential loss of information.
Documents are stored in a free lockable shred bin.
All hauling and shredding tasks are performed by our bonded technicians. This allows your staff to focus on what matters.
Secure shred bins protect information from outsiders and unauthorized employees. Sensitive materials remain safe and secure until shredded.
Provides and maintains state-of-the-art industrial shredders, so you don't have to. Never worry about ordering supplies, broken equipment, expensive repairs or utility costs again!
Destroys and removes all material, keeping your office clean and tidy.
Recycles all shredded output.
The proof is in the Certificate of Destruction – you have peace of mind knowing that everything is taken care of.
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