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What is the best way to destroy a hard drive?

If you have old hard drives laying around, you probably already know it’s a bad idea to throw these into a general waste bin. Whether your hard drive contains personal files or work files, you should ensure the data is irretrievable when disposing of the device. For this reason, destruction is the only real option.

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Safety notice regarding batteries in shredding bins

Safety Simon says, with recycling, we all love a trier. But, putting batteries in shredding bins is playing with fire! Our health and safety mascot, Safety Simon, has an urgent message to share about battery safety. While we specialise in destroying things, batteries are too destructive, even for us. When you put batteries in your.

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What happens after shredding?

If you’re looking to use a shredding service provider, you may ask yourself the question: “What happens after shredding?” While we can’t speak for all shredding companies, we can tell you what we do with your confidential materials once we shred them. Paper materials When we shred your confidential paperwork, we mix it with tonnes.

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How to make your textile consumption more sustainable

How to make your textile consumption more sustainable

An estimated 1.2m tonnes of textiles end up in landfill sites in the UK each year. Of that 1.2m tonnes, around 360,000 tonnes are clothing items. In terms of monetary value, this is roughly £140m worth of clothing going to UK landfill sites every year. “Waste is out of fashion!” That was the message for.

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The different types of paper shredders

There are many types of paper shredders out there. From home and office shredding machines to industrial shredders, we’ll explain the difference between how these machines work and which you should use to keep your data secure. Strip-cut shredders What is strip-cut shredding? Strip-cut shredding is where a shredder will slice paperwork into long strips..

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