DGD Technology has built its reputation on IT Asset Disposition, certified erasure, and lifecycle management for retired IT equipment. What many of our customers do not realise is that this service sits alongside DGD Shredding, one of Ireland’s largest and most established secure destruction providers, trusted since 1998.
If your business already works with DGD Technology on IT assets, there is a good chance you are also generating confidential paper waste that could benefit from the same standard of security, compliance, and accountability.
Understanding the shredding process
DGD Shredding manages the secure destruction of confidential paper records, from collection through to certified destruction. It covers everything a business needs once a document reaches the end of its retention period: keeping it secure until collection, tracking it through to destruction, and providing a certificate that proves it happened.
DGD Shredding’s range covers most of what businesses and individuals need when it comes to secure destruction:
Mobile Onsite Shredding
A mobile shredding unit attends your premises and destroys documents on site, so material is never transported off-site before destruction. This suits businesses that want to witness destruction directly, or where policy requires it.
Secure Offsite Shredding
Documents are collected in locked consoles and taken to a secure facility capable of processing up to 7 tonnes an hour. This is usually the more economical option for businesses with regular or high-volume shredding needs, without any reduction in security.
Hard Drive & IT Media Destruction
Hard drives, tapes, and other physical media are securely destroyed, with a certificate of destruction issued for every batch. This service complements DGD Technology’s certified erasure and lifecycle management for businesses handling a wider range of retired IT equipment.
Uniform Destruction
Branded uniforms, workwear, and PPE are destroyed securely once retired, preventing misuse of company branding or unauthorised resale.
Product Destruction
Obsolete, recalled, or rejected stock is destroyed securely rather than risk it being sold on or misused, protecting both brand reputation and product safety.
Regular Scheduled Services
Collections are set up on a recurring schedule, weekly, fortnightly, or monthly, matched to the volume of confidential waste a business generates on an ongoing basis.
On-Demand Services
For businesses without a steady, predictable volume of confidential waste, one-off collections are available without the need for an ongoing contract. This also covers bulk clear-outs, such as office moves, closures, or archive purges, where everything needs to be dealt with in a single visit.
Commercial Shredding
Covers offices, public sector bodies, and businesses of all sizes, providing secure destruction as part of a wider data protection and compliance approach.
Domestic Shredding
Available for private individuals and households who need to dispose of personal documents securely, without the volume that a business service is built around.
Drop-Off Service
Documents can be brought directly to a DGD facility for shredding, giving a convenient option for smaller or occasional volumes without arranging a collection.
Why this matters for GDPR
Under GDPR, a business is responsible for personal data regardless of what it is written on. A retired hard drive and an unshredded invoice represent a comparable category of risk to a Data Protection Officer, even though one is digital and the other is physical. Many organisations that have IT asset disposal firmly under control have a far less structured approach to paper records, which often end up in general waste or sitting in storage well past any retention period.
This is usually not a deliberate gap. It happens because IT disposal and paper shredding have historically been handled by different suppliers, at different times, under different assumptions about risk. Bringing both under one company, with one standard of accountability, closes that gap without adding a new supplier relationship to manage.
A straightforward next step
If your business generates confidential paper waste, whether through invoices, HR records, contracts, or retired uniforms, it is worth having your current process properly assessed. DGD Shredding can set up a collection schedule that fits your volume, whether that is a one-off clear-out or an ongoing service, all under the same standards of chain of custody and compliance that apply to our ITAD and lifecycle services.
Get in touch to arrange a shredding assessment, or find out more about our secure destruction services at dgdshredding.ie or call 1800 491 333.
About DGD Technology
DGD Technology brings certified IT Asset Disposition, data erasure, and lifecycle management to businesses across Ireland, backed by the same standards of security, compliance, and accountability that have defined DGD Shredding since 1998. From certified erasure to secure destruction and asset resale, we help businesses retire IT equipment properly, whatever stage it has reached.
Want to see what our services can do for you?
Explore our ITAD & Lifecycle Solutions or find out more about our Shredding Services.
Find out how we can help your business? Talk to the team at sales@dgdtechnology.ie or call 1800 491 333.
