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More than 73,000 customers throughout North America rely on Iron Mountain’s secure shredding services. You can, too.
We bring our secure and professional services to your residential location to handle document shredding, whether it’s personal, business, or both
You don’t need to be a corporate company to utilize our professional shredding services. Whether you have a work-from-home office for a small business or piles of personal documents, we’re here to help with residential shredding services from Iron Mountain.
We bring more than 70 years of shredding experience to your directly to your home. We’re proud to offer bulk shredding and recurring shredding services, onsite at your residence or convenient drop off locations through our partners.
More than 73,000 customers throughout North America rely on Iron Mountain’s secure shredding services. You can, too.
Have you accumulated a large amount of personal documents like bank statements or receipts that need to be destroyed all at once? Maybe you’re doing a home office clean-out and need to ensure that all confidential work documents are disposed of securely. Or perhaps you’re moving, and while packing you realize just how much paper you’ve collected throughout the years.
With our popular bulk paper shredding service, you can purge a large amount of sensitive documents: onsite while you watch, or picked up by Iron Mountain and destroyed offsite at one of our many secure shredding facilities.
Learn moreIf you consistently produce confidential or sensitive documents, or need to maintain compliance with current data laws and regulations, recurring shredding is available on your schedule, at your convenience. Let us help you stay compliant for HIPAA, FACTA, GLB, and SOX.
We’ll pick up your sensitive documents at your residence and securely transport them for shredding, all on a schedule that works for you.
Our residential shredding partners offer a drop-off shredding service that’s perfect for disposing of a box or two, or even individual documents.
Simply type your city name into the search field on our partner search map to find a partner shredding location in your area, and drop off your documents to be securely shredded.
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Office, commercial, and residential customers get nationwide shredding coverage—on their schedule
Return to doing what you love; we’ll take over the bulk of your records management process
NAID from i-SIGMA is the only recognized independent source for security and ethics standards in the document destruction industry. NAID’s AAA-certification from i-SIGMA ensures Iron Mountain meets the highest legal and compliance regulations required for secure information destruction.
With the free Iron Mountain Connect online portal, you’ll be able to:
Our shred usage report is an invaluable tool, providing the insight you need to better manage your program. By reviewing this report and identifying key trends over time, you’ll be able to correct potential compliance issues before they impact your business and identify opportunities to reduce costs.
Our operating shredding procedures and secure chain-of-custody processes are validated through decades of experience. Our InControl technology captures key information at the time of shred service at your location—including barcode scanning, shred container volume capture, electronic signature, and time and date stamp—providing you greater control and, more importantly, the peace of mind that comes from knowing your sensitive information is always secure.
Iron Mountain shred personnel pass comprehensive background checks and receive rigorous, ongoing training on secure shredding services. They’re experts in their field and take pride in knowing that they’re not just shredding documents—they’re protecting your business.
Iron Mountain shred facilities provide some of the industry’s more advanced systems to safeguard your information, including:
Privacy+ Certification from i-SIGMA
NAID AAA Certification
from i-SIGMA
Researchers voted Iron Mountain the #1 Shredding Service
Iron Mountain’s Sentinel training program was awarded the Learning in Practice Gold Award
<p>The following <strong>CAN </strong>be securely shredded:</p>
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<li>Clean paper, any color and any size</li>
<li>Blueprints</li>
<li>Newspapers</li>
<li>Magazines</li>
<li>Brochures</li>
<li>Mail (including window envelopes)</li>
<li>Photographs</li>
<li>File folders, any color (no need to remove staples, paper clips, rubber bands, or small binder clips)</li>
</ul>
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The following can <strong>NOT </strong>be securely shredded:<br />
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<li>Cardboard</li>
<li>Wet or moldy material</li>
<li>Telephone books</li>
<li>Hardcover books</li>
<li>Plastic bags and packing material</li>
<li>Computer discs, CDs, or DVDs</li>
<li>Backup and VCR tapes</li>
<li>Transparencies</li>
<li>ID badges and driver’s licenses</li>
<li>Microfiche and microfilm</li>
<li>X-rays</li>
<li>Batteries (no batteries of any kind)</li>
<li>USB thumb drives</li>
<li>Computer parts</li>
<li>Printer and photocopier parts</li>
<li>Trash or hazardous materials</li>
<li>Biohazardous and medical waste (including needles and sharps)</li>
<li>Metals (including binders and hanging folders with metal hangers)</li>
</ul>
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Secure shredding allows businesses to safely destroy unnecessary paper-based documents that may contain confidential information. Shredding can help prevent identity theft or a data breach, free up space, and recycle documents.
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<li>Once you place your order online, you will be contacted by one of our customer support teammates to schedule the service date.</li>
<li>If using the<a href="/services/secure-shredding/offsite-secure-shredding"> offsite service</a>, all material that needs to be destroyed should be placed in a dry box with a lid for our driver to pick up.</li>
<li>If using the <a href="/services/secure-shredding/onsite-secure-shredding">onsite service</a>, all material that needs to be destroyed should be removed from its current storage location and easily accessible by our driver when they arrive with the mobile shredding vehicle.</li>
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We do service most residential locations, however these services are only available for purchase online.
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<li>If using the <a href="/services/secure-shredding/offsite-secure-shredding">offsite service</a>, paper is picked up from your location and transported to a shredding facility for final shredding. You can request a final “certificate of destruction” once the service is complete.</li>
<li>If using the <a href="/services/secure-shredding/onsite-secure-shredding">onsite service</a>, paper will be shredded onsite using a specially equipped mobile shredding vehicle.</li>
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You can request a final “certificate of destruction” once the service is complete.