Locked collection bins for your office, emptied and securely shredded on a schedule that fits your business — weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Set it up online.
Old files piling up at home or the office? Enter your zip code to compare local shredding and storage companies, see upfront prices, and book online in minutes.
If your business generates a steady stream of paperwork with names, numbers, or account details on it, tossing it in the trash or recycling bin is a risk, and letting it pile up until “someday” isn’t a plan. A dumpster behind your building is legally fair game once trash leaves your control, and a data breach doesn’t need a hacker when it can just need a trash bag.
With recurring shredding, your provider places locked collection bins in your office. Papers go in through a one-way slot, like a mailbox, and nobody can fish them back out. Not a curious visitor, not the cleaning crew, not even your own staff. On your scheduled service day, the provider empties the bins and securely shreds the contents, by mobile truck at your curb or after secure transport to their facility, and you receive a certificate of destruction for every single visit.
The real product here is the habit: when the locked bin is closer than the trash can, sensitive paper stops ending up in the wrong place. It’s how businesses stay compliant with privacy laws like HIPAA (health information) and FACTA (consumer financial information) without anyone on staff having to think about it.
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Weekly, monthly, or quarterly — pick the frequency and bin setup that fits how much paper your office produces, and book online.
Bins arrive, papers go in
Locked bins are placed where your team works. Everyone drops sensitive paper in the slot instead of the trash. That’s the whole workflow.
Serviced like clockwork
On each scheduled visit, your provider empties and shreds the contents and issues a certificate of destruction — your running compliance record.
Two decisions set up the whole service, and neither is permanent. You can adjust both as you learn your real volume.
For frequency, a rule of thumb: if a console fills in under a month, go weekly or every-other-week; if it takes a quarter, quarterly service is fine. A five-person professional office typically does well with one console on monthly service; a busy medical practice might run several consoles on weekly service. Start with your best guess. Your provider will tell you quickly whether bins are overflowing or half-empty, and adjusting is easy.
Placement matters more than people expect: bins near where paper is actually handled, the copier, the front desk, the billing department, get used. A bin in a far hallway quietly loses to the nearest trash can.
Privacy laws don’t just require you to destroy sensitive records, they effectively require you to be able to prove you did. That’s what makes recurring service more than a convenience:
Every service visit produces a certificate of destruction: a dated record of what was collected and destroyed, by whom, in compliance with applicable regulations. Over a year of weekly service, that’s fifty-two dated proof points, a continuous record showing your business destroys sensitive paper systematically, not just when someone remembers.
That continuous record is exactly what an auditor, a regulator, or opposing counsel after a breach wants to see. “We shred sometimes” is a liability; “here are our certificates for every month of the last three years” is a defense. The laws in play depend on your industry — HIPAA for health information, FACTA for consumer data, GLBA for financial institutions — but the documented-destruction requirement is common to all of them.
Recurring service is typically priced per bin, per visit. Because providers can plan their routes around scheduled stops, the per-visit cost usually beats booking one-time service again and again. For most small offices, it works out to less than the office coffee budget.
On Annex, providers list their recurring service pricing openly, so you can compare local options and set up service that fits your budget without sitting through sales calls to find out what it costs.
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✓ Medical, dental, and veterinary offices handling patient information (HIPAA).
✓ Accounting, insurance, legal, and financial services firms (FACTA, GLBA).
✓ HR departments and any office that handles employee records.
✓ Retail and service businesses that process customer applications, invoices, or payment paperwork.
✓ Educational institutions and municipalities.
✓ Any business that’s tired of the overflowing “to shred” box in the corner.
Have a backlog to clear before regular service starts? Book one-time shredding first — mobile or off-site. Storing records you can’t destroy yet? Off-site box storage handles the keep pile. Retiring office computers? Add hard drive destruction or electronics destruction.
Old files piling up at home or the office? Enter your zip code to compare local shredding and storage companies, see upfront prices, and book online in minutes.