Gorge Security Shred - 948 Words

There is a new kind of shredding for the Gorge! With our abundance of wind, water and snow sports, shredding has meant radical sports moves†¦ but with the start-up of Gorge Security Shred’s document destruction business, the only shredding business located in the Gorge, â€Å"shredding the Gorge† has another connotation. Gorge Security Shred, a division of Opportunity Connections, is now in full operation. The idea for starting a document destruction company came from Rita Rathkey, Executive Director of Opportunity Connections, a non-profit organization that serves people with developmental and physical disabilities. Rathkey had talked with administrators of many similar agencies around the state about ways to provide paid employment for†¦show more content†¦The process starts from the instant a company deposits their confidential papers into a locked bin. Based on the company’s pick-up service schedule, a uniformed service representative will transport the sensitive information to a secure van parked outside. A completed and signed Materials Receipt form is supplied prior to the departure from the business facility. They transport the materials to the shredding company’s warehouse near Pine Grove, South of Hood River, where the documents are moved into a fenced, locked area inside the secure warehouse. All paper is weighed and the number of pounds, shredded, baled and recycled, is reported and credited to each county’s DEQ, Department of Environmental Quality, for earned recycling points. The destruction of the material takes place within three business days of pick-up. All shredded material is compacted into 1,000-pound bales and 100% recycled through a Washington pulp mill and made into other paper products. Gorge Security Shred encourages businesses to shred only what is confidential. Recycled whole sheets of paper retain their longer fibers and can be reprocessed into higher quality paper products. A Certificate of Destruction is issued, confirming the destruction of the material and is mailed back to the client along with an invoice. For the month of April, Gorge Security Shred will have processed over 8.5 tons of documents. Now that is â€Å"shredding the Gorge†! For more