For a business, doctor’s office, bank or other organization, it is imperative to destroy confidential waste on an ongoing basis. Confidential waste refers to documents that contain sensitive information about patients, customers or clients. This information may include financial records, medical records, or other private information that can be used for fraudulent purposes. Many businesses build mountains of confidential waste as part of doing day-to-day business. It’s necessary to retrieve the information to keep your business running, but it’s also necessary to destroy confidential waste, or risk the consequences.

The legal element of confidential waste is perhaps the most daunting as far as a business is concerned. Privacy laws are in place to protect people like your customers and clients, so if their information falls into the wrong hands because you didn’t have it destroyed, or had it done in a haphazard way, you will be punished. It is imperative to have your confidential waste destroyed in a secure way, so it can never be retrieved or put back together. It would be a huge blow to your business after building it up, to get into legal troubles because your confidential waste was exposed.

Identity theft is another big problem associated with failure to dispose of confidential waste. If your sensitive documents are not shredded beyond repair, identity theft may be the result, which can completely turn someone’s life upside down. Someone skilled in identity theft can take information and essentially take on that person’s persona to apply for credit, empty bank accounts or run up available credit. A victim of identity theft may have a very difficult time proving what actually happened, and it can take a long time to restore your credit and get your life back in order. If you don’t bother to protect your clients and customers and they do fall victim to identity theft, you may also be looking at a lawsuit that could cause even more damage to your business. Even if a thief doesn’t want to steal an identity, they may want information about your business. Trade secrets, training information and other business information are valuable to your competitors. If you don’t get rid of your confidential waste, you may end up helping the competition.

Obviously, if you end up on the wrong side of the law by ignoring rules to destroy confidential waste and your clients and customers become victims, your reputation will suffer drastically. Once word gets out that personal information isn’t secure with your company, you will lose clients faster than you can count, and you won’t have to worry about any new ones knocking on the door, either. The cost to repair your reputation will likely dwarf what it would have cost to destroy the confidential waste in the first place. People who want information about your business will go through your garbage and they will piece shredded documents back together. Whether they want to steal a client’s identity, or want to steal some of your trade secrets, if it exists, someone will find it.

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