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Four lines of work, priced separately

All four run on the same custody chain and produce the same certificate. What differs is how the material is counted, how it is destroyed, and what the unit of price is.

01

Paper and records destruction

Locked collection consoles and 64-gallon bins are placed at your facility and serviced on a fixed schedule. Containers are sealed with numbered tamper-evident seals before they leave the floor, and the seal number is what ties your material to the certificate.

Method
Cross-cut shredding, then baled for pulping
Unit of price
Priced per container, per service

Typical material

  • Case files and correspondence
  • Personnel and medical records
  • Financial and procurement records
  • Printouts, microfiche, carbon forms
  • X-ray film and photographic negatives

02

Hard drive and electronic media destruction

Drives and media are destroyed physically, not wiped. Each serial number is recorded against the container seal it arrived in and appears individually on the Certificate of Destruction, which is what an auditor asks for when a device goes missing from an inventory.

Method
Shred, disintegrate, or pulverize per NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2
Unit of price
Priced per unit, serial-tracked

Typical material

  • Hard disk drives and solid-state drives
  • LTO and DLT backup tape
  • Optical media — CD, DVD, Blu-ray
  • USB drives, memory cards, mobile handsets
  • Access badges, smart cards, credentials

03

IT asset disposition

Retired equipment is inventoried by asset tag and serial, data-bearing components are destroyed, and the remaining hardware is recycled or remarketed. You get an asset-level report, not a weight ticket.

Method
Media destroyed; chassis recycled through downstream audit
Unit of price
Priced per asset, less recovery credit

Typical material

  • Workstations, laptops, and servers
  • Network and telecom equipment
  • Printers and multifunction devices with storage
  • Monitors and peripherals

04

One-time purge

A scheduled bulk destruction project: an expired retention schedule, a facility closure, an office move, or an evidence room cleanout. Volume is counted and sealed on arrival so the certificate reconciles against your own disposal authorisation.

Method
On-site or plant destruction, customer's choice
Unit of price
Priced per project

Typical material

  • Boxed records past their retention schedule
  • Facility decommissioning and office moves
  • Evidence and property-room disposal
  • Uniforms, badges, and branded material

On-site or off-site

Where the material stops being readable

Some statements of work specify one or the other. Where the choice is yours, this is the trade: on-site buys certainty about the address, off-site buys throughput and therefore price.

On-site versus off-site destruction compared
ModeWhere destruction happensCustodyWitnessSuits
On-siteDestroyed in the truck at your loading dockMaterial never leaves your address intactIn person from the dock. A camera feed is not a substitute — the CJIS glossary is explicit that cameras do not constitute an escortCJI and evidence material, classified-adjacent holdings, and any SOW that names on-site destruction
Off-siteSealed, transported, destroyed at the plantNumbered seals and a signed transfer at every hand-offScheduled plant witness in person. Video is retained, but it does not satisfy a CJIS escort requirementRoutine scheduled service and high-volume purges where throughput sets the price