At Shred Station, we’re always working on innovations to reduce the impacts of our confidential destruction services. We also work to support innovation in the wider recycling industry to ensure a more sustainable future. It is a core pillar of our ethos to cause minimal environmental impacts, and we work hard to reduce emissions. This ensures our customers receive the greenest service in the industry.
We destroy tens of thousands of tonnes of paperwork per year, and, because we are firm believers in recycling everything possible, every sheet is recycled at UK mills. We also have many procedures in place to recycle non-paper materials via dedicated waste streams. For example, shredded plastics are melted into new plastic pellets and shredded hard drives are sent to metal refineries.
In January 2019, Shred Station received its first-ever CarbonNeutral® certified company accreditation. Every year since then, we have been certified as a carbon-neutral business in line with the requirements of the Carbon Neutral Protocol. In 2023, we decided that annual carbon neutrality wasn’t enough. We wanted every customer who has ever used Shred Station to receive the same carbon-neutral service. So, our lifetime emissions were independently assessed by Climate Impact Partners and Nature Positive. Our goal was to offset these emissions in their entirety by 2030. We beat that goal by six years, and in 2024 became the UK’s only lifetime CarbonNeutral® certified waste management company.
