Q: What is
Secure Destruction?
Secure Destruction is the process by which a product, document or data is destroyed and evidence of that destruction can be provided.
Securely destroying commercially sensitive waste for businesses nationwide
Recycling Lives guarantees the secure disposal of waste, ensuring that all commercially sensitive waste is disposed of responsibly.
We provide you with a service that suits your needs, using a recording process that allows you to view destruction from your desk and providing a certificate of destruction for all destroyed waste.
We incorporate secure waste disposal into a total waste management solution tailor made to your business, managing all waste streams, including general waste, dry mixed recycling, cardboard and packaging as well as hazardous and confidential waste.
We assess your waste streams to find more efficient ways to manage your confidential waste while ensuring full compliance throughout the disposal process. We aim to reduce waste creation and increase recycle rates through effective total waste management solutions.
All our services, from data destruction to redundant stock disposal, contribute to the creation of significant social value - so secure disposal becomes a charitable process.
As well as supporting our charitable programmes through secure disposal, we are creating skilled jobs in waste management. All our departments, from office-based to operational teams, create training and employment opportunities for people from marginalised backgrounds, giving us a diverse team with a wealth of life and work experience.
Working with Recycling Lives means your business supports and sustains our life-changing charitable programmes.
As a national waste management company, we are able to manage your confidential waste disposal alongside multiple waste streams from across your business.
With a network of ten sites, skips and containers of all sizes, and a large fleet of skip wagons, ROROs and artics, we can accommodate all business waste collection.
Secure destruction takes place in Europe’s only online fragmentiser, which records the entire destruction process in high definition, allowing clients to oversee the process remotely.
We also operate a degausser for magnetic media like hard drives and SD cards. This destroys the presence of data and renders magnetic media unusable by using a high-powered electronic field.
All our commercial activities support and sustain our charitable programmes; reducing reoffending, supporting homeless men and redistributing food. These create opportunities through:
Our work is doing more than just changing lives for individuals, families and communities - between 2015 and 2018 it has created huge savings for society by reducing costs to the taxpayer and creating social value worth millions of pounds.
While the standard duty of care regulations apply to organisations disposing of waste, many businesses choose to use secure destruction to protect the integrity of their brand; prevent surplus stock or prototypes from entering the second-hand market; and ensure that competitive information about products or services is not leaked.
The Duty of Care Regulations state that as a waste holder you must take all reasonable steps to:
In addition, any waste holder must ensure that waste is transferred to a business or individual like Recycling Lives that is:
Find the answers to all your questions about Secure destruction below.
Secure Destruction is the process by which a product, document or data is destroyed and evidence of that destruction can be provided.
Breach of the Duty of Care is an offence, with a penalty of up to £5,000 on summary conviction or an unlimited fine on conviction on indictment.
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