What Happens To The Paper When It Is Shred At Royal Document Destruction

The Secure Shredding Process For Your Paper Once It Arrives At Royal Document Destruction

So what actually happens when your business hires Royal Document Destruction to shred your old documents?

Whether your confidential papers are picked up and brought back to our secure paper shredding facility in Columbus with a straight truck using our company’s off-site shredding services, if we send a mobile shredding truck to your business to have on-site paper shredding completed, or if you bring in boxes of paper from home and drop them off, the secure chain remains the same once material arrives at our state-of-the-art paper shredding facility.

The entire paper shredding process at Royal Document Destruction’s Columbus, Ohio facility is under 24-hour digitally recorded surveillance. This means the entire file destruction process from entry to our facility to complete paper shredding and baling is recorded and kept for 90 days for secure, guaranteed recordkeeping of the entire process.

All files are carefully handled by our experienced staff of background checked professionals, who take care of the security of your documents from beginning to end!

The Paper Cycle at Royal Document Destruction:

1. The confidential files for shredding are unloaded from Royal Document Destruction’s secure trucks at our facility. Any containers that collect and hold documents are weighed for record keeping purposes.
2. Shred containers are unlocked, and then separated into the “grade” of paper. Businesses usually have several classes of paper: white, office waste, and cardboard. If the material is in boxes, the same process is used in determining the quality of the paper, and then sorting it into grades before beginning the shred process.
3. The material is loaded onto the shred system by our staff with other papers of the same grade, by being quickly dumped out onto a metered machine belt below the ground. Once the material has been loaded into the system, it is metered by the equipment, goes up the first belt and into the first complete shred. Then, the particles of shredded paper go onto another belt, and enter a secondary shred system where it is all shred again. This cross-cut shredding system means all papers that come to Royal Document Destruction in Columbus go thru two complete shreds for added security.
4. The cross-cut (double shred) pieces of paper are then baled up by grade, producing very dense bales that weigh around 1,600 lbs. each.
5. The shredded paper bales are then sorted by grade again, where they are stored in our secure Columbus warehouse by semi load quantities for paper mills to pick-up.
6. Boxes are shred separately at the end of each shift as well, and sold as corrugated bales.
7. Paper recycling mills, such as Kimberly Clark, Georgia Pacific and International Paper, all purchase semi-load quantities of shredded bales of paper from Royal Document Destruction’s Columbus paper recycling facility.
8. The mills take the semi-loads of baled paper to their recycling mills, where the shredded paper is then pulped, and re-used to make recycled paper, or more commonly products which contain recycled paper content.
9. If Royal Document Destruction is your shredding service provider in Columbus, there is a good chance your paper ends up at one of these mills, often to make products such as away-from-home recycled tissue commonly found at gas stations.
10. Next time you are at the grocery store, look for paper products such as paper plates, paper towels, napkins, and other products from Kimberly Clark, Georgia Pacific, or International Paper. Those are the mills who often use your company’s confidential shredded paper to make new recycled products!