Gator Shredding offers residential shredding at our secure facility by scheduled appointment or by a pickup at your home. Secure bins can be provided and picked up upon request.
Drop-Off at Our Secure Facility
Not all shredding jobs require hours of work or frequent shredding visits. Sometimes, a shredding job is as small as a few banker boxes full of junk mail. In situations like this, homeowners may find it faster and easier to drop off their documents, rather than schedule a mobile appointment.
Residential customers are welcome to bring their documents to our secure shredding facility for off-site shedding. To protect the security of all documents entrusted to our care, we do ask that customers make an appointment to drop off their items for shredding.
Drop-Off Shredding is available at our facility. Please Follow us on Facebook for dates and time that we will be taking walk-in customers
Why Residential Shredding?
Shredding services provide plenty of benefits to large companies, but homeowners can find them a valuable resource, too. On a weekly basis, the average American receives around 16 pieces of junk mail. Junk mail might not sound like the most confidential form of communication, but even pre-approved credit card solicitations come with a wealth of personal information inside.
Personal information can include:
- The signature on a birthday card
- The account number on a bank statement
- The address on a junk mail flyer
- The phone number on a scrap of paper
- The nickname used in a letter
- The educational records on a report card
The Importance of Shredding
When you discard household papers, anything that ends up in the public trash effectively leaves your control the moment it’s collected. After that point, you have no way of knowing where your trash ends up, or if someone picks up a stray piece of paper along the way.
Residential shredding cross-cuts your papers into tiny pieces, which are then taken for recycling. This provides your information with multiple levels of protection and ensures that each and every page is accounted for.
Gator Shredding is proud to supply our residential clients with both drop-off and at-your-door mobile shredding options.
What Should I Be Shredding?
Anything that contains personally identifiable information (PII) should be kept aside for residential shredding. PII is any information that could identify a specific person, and it can show up anywhere, even on junk mail. The reason it’s so important to destroy PII is that thieves only need a small amount of it to put your identity (and your financial accounts) at risk. Any time you’re ready to throw out a piece of paper or an old document or ID card that contains PII, it should go in your shredding pile, rather than the kitchen trashcan.
- Academic report cards
- Credit card solicitation forms
- Items containing a signature
- Old or expired ID cards
- Tax records
- Pay stubs
- Utility bills
Learn more about residential shredding today.
Bin Service and Scheduled Pick-Up Service
For our residential customers who are unable to drop off their materials or who have a high volume of documents to be shred, we are happy to offer to drop-off secure collection bins, which we will then pick up when full and ready for shredding. These documents will then be transported to our secure facility, where they will be shred according to professional privacy regulations and legislation.
Depending on how much shredding you have, we also offer on-site shredding to our residential customers. Contact our knowledgeable staff for more information on our services. They are also available to help you figure out the best option for your shredding needs.
WE ARE COMPLIANT
We are committed to protecting the environment
All shredded material is taken to our secure facility where it is baled and sent to the paper mill to be recycled into items such as paper towels, toilet paper and/or napkins. Recycling paper saves trees, conserves water and reduces the amount of waste going to landfills.
