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Iron Mountain Sustainable Solutions: Secure Paper Shredding
Solution Guides
Achieve your sustainability goals through innovative, cost-effective solutions that also protect and manage your information.
Business challenge
Organizations understand the impact of sustainability and many have adopted initiatives supporting circular economy such as zero-waste or landfill diversion goals. However, they are often challenged with disposing or recycling materials which include enterprise, proprietary, or customer data.
Organizations need a solution that allows them to dispose of paper documents to achieve sustainability targets without compromising on data security and increased costs.
What if you could
- Enhance your information destruction program, knowing exactly which documents need to be destroyed and remain in compliance with pertinent regulations.
- Support the circular economy by recycling paper products without compromising any data.
- Elevate your reputation as a sustainable organization by reporting on waste to landfill diversion and achieving your sustainability goals.
Our impact
Iron Mountain recycles an average of 465,970 tons of cardboard and paper each year, enabling a circular economy.
Iron Mountain Secure Paper Shredding
With Iron Mountain Secure Paper Shredding, you get the resources and proven expertise you’ll need to create, implement and monitor a comprehensive information destruction program that is convenient, compliant, cost-effective and sustainable. By leveraging our destruction best practices, you’ll be able to:
- Ensure your data is secure with disposal processes certified by the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID).
- Leverage Iron Mountain’s network of paper brokers and mills that recycle more than 450,000 tons of paper annually on behalf of our customers.
- Access account-specific data on your organization’s shredding activity that is auditable with a Green Report that includes information on waste diverted from landfill and the associated water, energy, and emissions savings.
Our Methodology: Iron Mountain Sustainable Solutions
We recognize the important role we play in our customers’ value chain. We believe we have a responsibility to leverage our sustainable business practices to add value to our product offerings.
Iron Mountain’s method for identifying solutions that can help customers measure and report on progress towards their sustainability goals was developed in partnership with a Fellow from MIT’s Sustainability Lab and received external endorsement from a panel of independent subject matter experts and business leaders. The framework focuses on four core criteria.
Core criteria:
- Addresses a significant and clearly defined sustainability challenge.
- A comprehensive product lifecycle review of benefits and limitations results in a net positive impact rating.
- Sustainability claims are clear and based on a third-party endorsement.
- Transparency provided on business processes and calculation methodologies.