Hard-Drive Destruction

Paper Cuts offers comprehensive Hard-Drive destruction services for any sized business, or individual. We can schedule a one-time pick-up for your Hard-Drives or a ongoing pickup schedule that is convenient for your schedule. Hard-Drives and their components, as well as other data storage items that have become outdated, broken or to expensive to repair are all considered potential Hard-Drive Destruction. In addition, Paper Cuts will accept all your other eWaste and old computer-related items for eWaste destruction or recycling management. With our wide variety of service options, we can take care of one-time jobs, or set-up ongoing disposal schedules to fit your specific needs. please note that we do NOT accept batteries or lightbulbs.

Because we live, work, and play here in your community too, our localized Hard-Drive destruction expertise helps a variety of local industries and organizations. Your competition is probably going digital, so don't be left behind! Large and small businesses in key industries everywhere are benefitting from eWaste recyling and hard-drive or product destructio including:

• Business & Corporate Industries
• Financial & Accounting Industries
• Legal, Medical & Scientific Industries
• Educational & Non-Profit Entities
• Home Businesses & Residential Offices

In addition to Hard-Drive destruction, we offer integrated recycling of a variety of materials including cardboard, paper, plastic, newspaper, aluminum, ink jet cartridge, cellular telephones and computer equipment. We are very pleased to offer complete recycling, and electronic waste disposal services for individuals, and any size business. Paper Cuts recycles all shredded documents with local recycling partners because we strongly believe in supporting the local Southern CA economy.

Since 2004, we have built our stellar reputation for customer service and affordable rates because we understand that every business has unique requirements. We take great satisfaction in both our customized pricing and the thoroughness of our professional and confidential services. We will work with you to minimize your Hard-Drive destruction and eWaste recycling costs anywhere in close to you. We offer a customized pricing solution to meet your specific requirements.

Our unique Hard-Drive destruction process physically destroys a hard-drive to the point that any data that used to be stored on it is completely irretrievable. Paper Cuts uses the highest-quality superior grade shredding gear units that grind the drives themselves into extremely tiny pieces of unrecognizable recyclable particulates. This method of total destruction is necessary to protect the hihgly-sensitive and personal information previously on the drives from falling into the wrong hands.

It is important for you, as well as businesses and government agencies, to always ensure total data disposal in all situations. It’s just not enough to try to erase or reformat a hard drive anymore because those methods only remove some data and often leave traces of some data still accessible to the sophisticated hacker or data thief. Our method of total physical destruction of the hard-drive is the best professional option for you to safely ensure that your proprietary information that was stored on it is permanently destroyed forever.

Using our highly-secured, regulatory compliant hard drive and media destruction services, Paper Cuts can save you from ongoing compliance issues, legal nightmares and serious fines. Because we specialize in all types of hard drive destruction jobs, we can handle large and small requests, always guaranteeing that your confidential data is permanently destroyed so it is irrecoverable.

Here’s how our highly-successful destruction process works, step by step:

• 1. Hard-Drive Pickup - We’ll pick up your hard drives, data disks and any type of electronic data media storage and transfer them to our secured mobile shredding trucks. For normal-size hard- drives, we can destroy them right inside our mobile trucks while you watch from the outside. Other larger or atypical-size drives, we will transport them to our main secured warehouse facility in our mobile GPS-tracked trucks. We provide both OnSite (at your location) and OffSite hard drive destruction options. Whether you need immediate destruction at your location or prefer secure transportation to our shredding facility, we’ve got you covered.

• 2. Complete Drive Destruction - Hard-Drives and electronic media devices are physically crushed by our superior shredding gear units using high-powered grinding to render the drives into tiny unrecognizable recyclable particulates. The resulting shredded pieces of recycling debrit are unusable to the point where data is untreivable forever. It is vital that a bonded and certified destruction service like Paper Cuts be used whenever a hard-drive has reached its end-of-life. This ensures that confidential data such as highly-sensitive emails, invoices, budgetary numbers, internal documents and other proprietary information aren’t accessed by unwanted individuals.

• 3. Recycling Process - Through our multi-pronged recycling program, we remove digital data and recycle all hard drive and media destruction materials that are left, reusing the rest for the good of the environment. Paper Cut's recognizes your active commitment with our document destruction recycling. We offer comprehensive recycling of materials including cardboard, paper, plastic, newspaper, aluminum, ink jet cartridge, cellular telephones and computer equipment.

• 4. Certificate of Destruction - Immediately following the completion of your hard drives or media items destruction, our team will issue you with an official Certificate of Destruction. This signed document will prove that the items you requested for shredding or destruction were specifically destroyed by Paper Cuts, including the exact day and time of destruction and helps maintain a consistent records retention policy. While the majority of competing destruction companies may also issue a Certificate of Destruction, ONLY Paper Cuts provides you with a Certificate of Destruction that specifically itemizes every secure destruction unit we maintained for you and the amount of material contained in each one.

In general, all types of electronic hard-drive or digital media storage items that have become outdated, broken or to expensive to repair should be professionally destroyed. Paper Cuts On-Site mobile hard-drive disposal services can ensure that your recyclable items are properly destroyed before being discarded. Our Hard-Drive Disposal professionals will come to your business to pick up your all of your items, including end-of-life media, data discs and hard-drives.

Even though you may be following the law for destruction of your confidential paper documents, you need to take precautions to destroy data on digital devices that store your proprietary electronic information. And it's just not enough to simply erase information from a drive and expect that the data cannot be accessed. Once files have been erased on a drive, they can still be accessed by an individual skilled in information retrieval. Even if the drive is formatted, some of the information may still be accessible. The only way to ensure that information cannot be accessed once the hard drive leaves your premises is to engage the use of a trusted professional hard-drive destruction service like Paper Cuts.

Paper Cuts On-Site Hard-Drive services can ensure that your out-dated media items are properly destroyed before being discarded. Our drive disposal professionals will come to your business to pick up your end-of-life and outdated hard-drives. With Paper Cut's comprehensive 24/7 scheduling services, you can set up either Saturday or Sunday services by making an appointment for a time that is most convenient for your schedule:

• Weekend Appointments Available
• Flexible DROP-OFF times
• Pickup Locations Vary
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Please note that we do NOT collect batteries or light bulbs.

Paper Cuts offers the most secure, convenient, cost-effective and environmentally conscious solutions for ensuring proper disposal of confidential hard-drives or media data items in the industry. Our secured process begins with our attentive staff working with you to develop a customized drive destruction program that seamlessly fits your organization’s needs, 24/7.

We take care of the entire destruction and disposal process for you. This includes picking up, transporting, destroying, disposing, and/or shredding of all items you designate for destruction and recycling. Our well-documented system for handling all of your hard-drive destruction needs ensures that we are always in line with all and any applicable federal, state, or municipal rules or regulations. Hard-drives and any other storage devices, to name a few, are all recycled after they have been destroyed. Before we completely destroy the devices, we make a note of the serial number of each hard drive or data disc and ensure that you receive a copy of the database of serial numbers.

In addition to hard-drive disposal, we offer customized On-site mobile pick-up and drop-off for all types of eWaste services with the highest level of security, convenience, efficiency, and affordability. Our professional drivers are prompt, courteous, and specifically trained on how to handle sensitive items with complete confidentiality remaining intact. They will travel to your office, business, home, facility or warehouse to collect any confidential items that you need discreetly recycled or destroyed. You can conveniently schedule a one-time pick-up or choose an ongoing plan for regular mobile recycling services. Our certified On-Site hard-drive destruction procedures reduce risks and drawbacks by ensuring all confidential data drives are destroyed on your premises by trained, bonded security professionals while onboard our mobile ewaste collection trucks.

Call us now toll-free at 800-939-0390 for a free quote.

Paper Cuts recycles all shredded particulates resulting from hard-drive destruction with local recyclers because we strongly believe in supporting the local Southern CA economy. We offer comprehensive recycling of hard-drive materials and eWaste including mobile phones, electronic devices, cardboard, paper, plastic, newspaper, aluminum, ink jet cartridge, cellular telephones and computer equipment. With our certified document destruction, not only are all your drives completely destroyed on-site, 100% of the resutling material is recycled and eventually made into other useful products.

We all have a stake in preserving our environment. Paper Cut's takes this responsibility seriously. We recycle all of the shredded paper that we destroy, partnering with you not only to increase your information security, but with your commitment to recycling for the benefit of the environment. We see that your shredded drive materials return to the marketplace as recycled plastics, digital devices and other related consumer electronic products.

In addition to our hard-drive destruction services, Paper Cuts can properly dispose of your excess electronic e-Waste components such as monitors (CRT's), computers, hard drives, office machinery, televisions, cell phones and toner cartridges as determined by the Electronic Recycling Act of California. Because Paper Cuts is also authorized by the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) to collect and process your unwanted e-Waste, we can provide for the safe removal and certified recycling any or all of these types of items with a one-time pick up or a scheduled recurring basis as needed.

The amount of data that businesses keep on computer hard drives and other media or data components is unprecedented in history. With data being used in such integral parts of our lives everyday, it's vital that a trusted professional hard-drive destruction service be used whenever a hard drive has reached its end-of-life. This ensures that confidential and highly-sensitive emails, invoices, budgetary numbers and internal documents aren't accessed by outside individuals. The average amount of data on a typical hard-drive can hold over 107,300,000 pages – or about 214,700 reams of paper -- that equates to almost 8,900 normal four-drawer business filing cabinets!

Paper Cuts is committed to safeguarding our client's privacy and security with every ewaste recycling job we complete for them. Proper ewaste destruction of confidential information requires the end-of-service procedure of providing a Certificate of Destruction to the client proving that in fact shredding of specific eWaste items took place at a certain date and time.

At Paper Cuts, our secured storage facilities are monitored continuously, manned and protected around the clock —- 24-hours a day, 7-days a week —- by fully trained security personnel. This includes 24-hour video surveillance, secure keypad entry systems and motion detectors.

Over the last 15 years Paper Cut's has refined the one of most secure, convenient, cost-effective and environmentally safe eWaste destruction and recycling solutions for ensuring the proper disposal of electronic items. The Paper Cut's process begins with our attentive staff working with you to develop a tailored eWaste recycling program that seamlessly fits the needs your organization. For daily weekly eWaste management, our top-of-the-line security consoles are strategically placed throughout your facility at no charge for convenient ongoing maintenance.

You can rest assured that your outdated eWaste devices or items are handled with the utmost care being destroyed and recycled at our secured warehouse facility by our bonded and vetted Client Service Consultants, significantly reducing the risk of a breach which can result in reducing the risk of your identity theft.

Immediately following the completion of your professional hard-drive destruction, our team will issue you with a media shredding Certificate of Destruction. While the majority of competing hard-drive destruction services may issue a Certificate of Destruction, ONLY Paper Cuts Hard-Drive Shredding Services provides you with a Certificate of Destruction that specifically itemizes every secure destruction unit we maintained for you and the amount of material contained in each one.

In order to validate the Certificate of Destruction, both you and our Destruction Specialist need to approve and sign it. All the legally required check-boxes have been ticked when you contact us for your hard-drive destruction and media disposal services. This guarantees that you can witness your items being destroyed firsthand and never have to worry about whether anything was overlooked.