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GDPR compliant confidential shredding service

The introduction of the GDPR means that businesses can now be hit with huge fines for personal data breach, so disposing of confidential waste correctly is vital. Ecogen Recycling provides a comprehensive commercial shredding service for paper documents, ensuring that your business stays compliant.

  • Ecogen’s confidential document destruction service can help you to meet the requirements of GDPR, whilst also minimising your carbon footprint through the recycling of resulting paper waste

  • We'll collect archive boxes or sacks from your premises on a date convenient to you, securely shred all documents within 24 hours of collection, and issue a Certificate of Destruction for compliance purposes and peace of mind

  • No volume is too large or small - our state-of-the-art recycling facility is capable of shredding 7 tonnes of archive paper per hour, so your paper waste will be processed quickly, regardless of whether you've given us a few archive boxes or sacks or an entire trailer-load

  • Ecogen offers both adhoc and regular shredding collections to suit your needs

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Why Use Ecogen?

  • We Help Keep You Legal

    Ecogen can help you to adhere to GDPR by lessening the risk of data breach. All documents collected are shredded, pulped and then recycled - nothing goes to landfill.

  • We Keep Your Documents Secure

    Our recycling plant is gated, with CCTV monitoring 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, and our employees are highly-trained and vetted.  

  • We Provide Peace of Mind

    Following destruction, we'll send you a Certificate to confirm the secure disposal of documents for compliance purposes, and also for your own peace of mind.

  • Shredding....Fast!

    Your documents are shredded within 24 hours of collection/delivery, minimising the window of opportunity for data breach

  • We Collect Nationwide

    Regardless of your location, we'll collect your documents, transport them back to our recycling centre, and securely destroy them before providing a Certificate of Destruction for compliance purposes and peace of mind.

What are my Legal Obligations Regarding GDPR?

Every business has an obligation to ensure that any document containing personally-identifiable data (e.g., name, address, payroll details, telephone number, email address) is securely stored and managed at all times, before being confidentially and responsibly destroyed. Under GDPR, any breach of this obligation can be punished with penalties up to 20 million euros or 4% of global turnover (whichever is greater).

It would be fair to assume therefore that most of the documents produced and recorded by a business will contain confidential information in some form, and as such, are subject to the tenets of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). With this in mind, they must be responsibly destroyed to prevent the confidential data pertaining to your customers, employees, patients or contacts falling into the wrong hands and leading to identity theft or other misuses of the data. You can find more information on GDPR (including how to keep your electronic data safe) on the Information Commissioners website.

Contact us today on 01962 732296 to discuss how our confidential paper shredding service can help you and we'll work with you to identify the best way in which we can support your business. Or complete our contact form for your no-obligation secure document destruction quote, or to discuss the collection and recycling options available to you.

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What Our Customers Say...

Brett J - Site Manager, Automotive Manufacturer

"The service level over the last few years have been fantastic. On many occasions I have had to postpone our booked collections and its never an issue. Ecogen’s team are always very helpful and will go that extra mile to accommodate my requirements I look forward to working with them all for many more years to come."

Mark T - Warehouse Manager, IT Distribution

"We aim to do our bit for the environment by reducing our carbon footprint, part of this is the recycling of waste commodities. Paper, card and plastic are our biggest commodity to be recycled and so for this, we use the professional services of Ecogen Recycling.

Ecogen has been reliable, dependable, trustworthy and very well priced. I have visited the Ecogen site to witness the destruction of delicate confidential material which I took in person and whilst there, found everyone to be friendly, polite and happy in their work.

Long may the relationship between Ecogen and us continue!"