Here in Massachusetts, legislation known as “Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth” (201 CMR 17.00) likely effects the way your organization handles certain types of waste. This regulation states that, if your business keeps records that includes Massachusetts’ residents’ names in connection with other personal information, you’re legally required to protect that information at all times. The only way to stay compliant is to thoroughly destroy any such records once they’re obsolete. In these cases, recycling paper files and data-storing devices isn’t adequate; They have to be thoroughly and permanently destroyed.

Even if your business doesn’t keep information about Massachusetts residents, it does keep confidential records of some type and should be wary of how this information is stored and disposed of. Personnel files include health and payroll records, accounting files hold the business’s financial records, client communications contain proprietary information – these files, both paper and electronic, require safekeeping and eventual destruction.

Northeast Data Destruction, our sister company, is NAID “AAA” certified for secure document and product destruction for confidential material disposal.

On-site Options
Make compliance easy for your employees by providing on-site locked storage containers for the collection, storage, and removal of your sensitive materials prior to destruction. Northeast Data Destruction can provide 32-, 64- and 96-gallon storage containers for your sensitive documents and other items.

Transportation and our Facility
Trust us to destroy your confidential material. Work with Miller Recycling and Northeast Data Destruction (NEDD) to ensure that all of your confidential material is handled properly from pickup through destruction. For your added security, all of NEDD’s drivers and employees undergo rigorous controlled substance, CORI, DMV, credit, and criminal background checks. In addition, our site is equipped with 24-hour surveillance and is subject to unannounced NAID audits.

We allow the witnessing of the destruction process with a pre-scheduled appointment. You’ll receive a NAID “AAA” Certificate of Destruction as a permanent record of the secure destruction process.