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What is a Document Retention Policy?

Monica — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 20:02:53 +0000

A company is required by law to retain confidential client information and employee and company data for certain periods of time. A document retention policy (DRP) defines how and when your company should review, retain, and destroy documents received or created in the course of business. A DRP will identify documents that need to be […]

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Identity Theft Prevention Tips

Monica — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 05:07:48 +0000

If you have ever been the victim of identity theft, you know that it can be a nightmare! Identity theft can damage your credit status, and cost you time and money to restore your good name. You may not even find out that you are the victim until long after it happens when are trying […]

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Plastic Bag Recycling Facts

Action Shred — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 16:44:56 +0000

Plastic bag recycling may seem like a small thing, but plastic bags are a huge threat to the environment. Did you know that a plastic shopping bag can take anywhere from 15 to 1,000 years to decompose. Plastic bags don’t biodegrade, but are at risk for photo degradation, as sunlight exposure dissolves them into toxic […]

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Good to Know: Commute

Action Shred — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 17:32:04 +0000

If every commuter car in the U.S. carried just one more person, 8 billion gallons of gas would be saved.

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Good to Know: Newspaper Waste

Action Shred — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 18:57:00 +0000

Half a million trees must be cut down to produce each week’s Sunday newspapers. Only 27 percent of all American newspapers are recycled. Recycling every newspaper would save about 250 million trees each year.

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Good to Know: Aluminum Can Recycling

Action Shred — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:56:27 +0000

We use more than 80 billion aluminum soda cans every year. It takes 90 percent less energy to recycle aluminum cans than to make new ones. By simply recycling one aluminum can, you are saving enough energy to watch a TV for three hours.

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Good to Know: Styrofoam

DMediaWeb — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 16:17:48 +0000

The average office worker uses up to 500 disposable coffee cups per year. Styrofoam takes about one million years to fully decompose.

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Good to Know: Recycled Paper

DMediaWeb — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:58:24 +0000

Approximately 1-billion-trees worth of paper is thrown away every year in the U.S. Recycled paper uses 64 percent less energy than making paper from virgin wood pulp and can save many trees. Every ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees.

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