Confidential Waste Shredding & Secure Document Destruction

Paper carries data too. Contracts, HR files, client records, financial paperwork — under UK GDPR they need the same end-of-life care as a hard drive, and a bin bag behind the office is a data breach waiting to be found. CITD provides secure confidential waste shredding for businesses, schools, universities and public sector organisations across England, Scotland and Wales: collected by our own BS 7858:2019 vetted staff, shredded at your premises or at our facility, and certified — with the same chain of custody we apply to data-bearing hardware.

Confidential waste shredding — secure document collection, on-site shredding and certified destruction

Confidential waste console being collected for secure shredding

Certified confidential document shredding in progress

What We Destroy

Confidential documents and general office paperwork — contracts, correspondence, printouts and files
HR, payroll and personnel records — destroyed with certified proof for your compliance file
Financial and client records — invoices, statements, case files and account documentation
Archive clearances — boxed archives, storage-room and basement clearouts, end-of-retention purges
Student records, coursework and exam papers — end-of-retention destruction for schools, colleges and universities
Folders, binders and filing — no need to remove staples, clips or ring binders; we handle preparation

Clearing paper alongside old IT? Documents and hardware can be collected on the same visit, under the same paperwork — one booking, one audit trail.

On-Site or Off-Site — Your Policy Decides

On-site shredding — destruction at your premises, witnessed if required, so confidential material never leaves your building intact. The right choice for strict information-security policies.
Off-site shredding — documents secured in locked containers, transported in our GPS-tracked vehicles by our own employed staff, and shredded at our alarmed, access-controlled facility.

Either way, destruction is carried out in accordance with BS EN 15713, the standard for secure destruction of confidential material, and you receive a certificate of destruction within five working days for your records.

One-Off Clearances or Scheduled Collections

Most confidential waste jobs are one-offs — an office move, an archive room reaching end of retention, a records purge before a fit-out. We handle those as single bookings, sized from a few boxes to a full storage floor. If your organisation generates confidential waste continuously, we can also arrange scheduled collections on set dates, so destruction becomes routine rather than a project.

What Happens to the Paper

Shredded paper doesn’t go to waste — it’s baled and recycled into new paper products, consistent with our policy that 100% of what we collect is diverted from landfill. An Environmental Impact / ESG Report is available on request, alongside your certificate of destruction and waste transfer note.