Several laws require certain businesses to shred or destroy old records and certain information. Paper Recycling and Shredding Specialists Paper Shredding and Recycling Specialists comes to your business - or you can come to ours - for sensitive document shredding. Our Orange County, California document shredding technicians use shredders that completely destroy old and sensitive records. Shredding paper records must be done pursuant to Assembly Bill 2246, which went into effect in January 2001. The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) also requires certain documents to be shredded.

If your business is required to hold customer information, you have an obligation to protect that data. When the hold time for documents ends, to ensure proper destruction, contact an Orange County, California company for shredding paper. Documents that are not shredded end up in the dumpster. Anyone can go through a dumpster to look for information for fraudulent purposes.

You may also have documents, such as payroll information, legal affairs and other personnel information that needs to be shredded. You should not have employees shredding these documents, as they are very sensitive. An Orange County, California document shredding company ensures that your sensitive data is properly destroyed.