Shredding Services:

How Much They Cost, and Which Is Best for You

Welcome!Have papers to shred, but don’t know the best way to do it?

Looking to compare your shredding optionsas well as how much they cost?

Then you’re in the right place to get the full picture

1.Evaluating Your

Shredding OptionsLet’s start with the different services

Types of Shredding Services

Mobile ShreddingA shredding truck comes to shred documents at your curbside while you watch. Mobile saves the time and hassle of sending papersto be shredded.

Drop Off ShreddingBoxes or trash bags of papers are taken to a retail locationfor shredding. Documents are placed in a secure bin, and a shredding provider makes regular stops to shred them.

Shred EventsFree or fundraiser-based community events. Mobile shred trucks arrive in large public spaces for community members to shred papers for free or small donations.

Buy/ Rent ShreddersPurchased personal shredders are used to shred each individual document. Personal rental is available, but renting a mobile truck is both easier and more affordable.

Offsite ShreddingA shred truck comes to you to collect your locked document bins and take them to a secure offsite shredding facility. Offsite pricing is ideal for large-scale shredding

How Mobile Shredding Works

We deliver locked bins to your location

You fill the bins with everything you need shredded

You receive a certificate of destruction for FACTA and HIPAA compliance

Finally, the paper shreds are recycled

Once full, mobile trucks arrive to shred onsite. You get to watch the entire

shredding process from your curbside

How Drop Off Shredding Works

You visit a local drop off shredding location with your boxes or bags of paper

A partner mobile shredding provider regularly makes stops at the location to shred the dropped off papers

An authorized employee stores the papers to be shredded in a locked bin

Community Shred Events

You, your community groups, or company organizes and schedules your shred event

On the day of the event, mobile shred trucks arrive to shred all attendees’ papers before taking them for recycling

We help you to promote your event—including contacting local media, free

press releases, and customized graphics

How Shredding Offsite Works

You fill up your locked shredding bins with the papers you need shredded

You get a certificate of destruction for FACTA and HIPAA compliance. The shreds of paper are then recycled

Once full, the provider picks up your papers, transports them in their locked

bins, and shreds them at an offsite facility

2.Comparing the Costs of

ServicesLet’s get down to business

Cost Based on Quantity

Shredding service pricing is based on the amount of paper to shred, making different services ideal for different sized projects.

2,000–2,500

30 lbs

1–2 Boxes

Papers in a standard file box

In 24” vertical file cabinet drawers or 30” lateral cabinet drawers

Per file box

Cost Per Service

0–3 Boxes(up to 90 lbs)

$1 / Pound

4–10 Boxes (90–300 lbs)

$119

Any Free

4+ BoxesDecreases Based

on Quantity

3.Deciding Which Service

Fits Your ProjectLet’s figure out what gets you the best bang for your buck

““It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.”

—Roy E. Disney

Cost-efficiency changes with

paper amount for service

Recommended quantities per

service offer best pricing

What Matters Most?

Drop Off is awalk-in service—no appointment

required

Mobile comes directly to your

location

Mobile offers witnessed shredding

Mobile and Offsite provide certificates of destruction for legal compliance

Security Speed/ConveniencePrice

Searching for AffordableServices for Your Project?

Find them when you visit us at Shred Nations today!