The Shredding Process

Security is still as important to Archive Services when it comes to your shredding material.

Your confidential material is transported in locked containers and remains locked until they arrive at our Records Centre. Once they arrive at the Records Centre they are immediately co-mingled with millions of other documents ready for destruction.

Archive Services staff sort all incoming material for appropriate processing, taking out any plastic items or heavy cardboard.  These items will be recycled through a different process.

Everything which is shredded by Archive Services is sent to a paper mill where it is pulped before being shipped to Europe as part of the recycling process.  It will soon return to the UK in the form of toilet paper or new copier paper.  Your certificate of destruction also confirms that the shredded material has been recycled.