Paper Shredding events benefit Louisville and beyond

A Plus Paper Shredding partners with different organizations to put on Free Paper Shredding Events. These events are great fund raisers for non-profits, and a great way to bring the community together. Churches, charities, neighborhood associations...they can all benefit with a document destruction event like this.

Here is a story about a similar event in Pennsylvania!

Community Shred Events Popular Weekend Activity 

Some 30 minutes before Arcadia University in Pennsylvania was set to open up its “One Stop Drop” community recycling event, cars were already lined up, each filled with boxes of paper destined for the free shredding service.

“If we tell them it starts at 11 a.m., people are there at 10:30 and waiting,” says Kasey Lynch, student supervisor with the Office of Community Service.

Similar scenes are playing out across the U.S. every weekend as community paper shredding events are offered, providing the public with a way to meet its pent-up demand for securely disposing of documents containing sensitive personal information that could, if in the wrong hands, be used for identity theft or other nefarious purposes..

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Millions in privacy violations wake-up the healthcare industry

The government has imposed fines on businesses of all sizes when they violate the new privacy laws. Unfortunately, the laws are very easy to violate, and not every business is versed on them. While destroying document in the mean streets of Louisville, A Plus Paper Shredding is always espousing the necessity of using a professional paper shredding company. Here's an example why:

Millions in privacy violations wake-up the healthcare industry

What can healthcare organizations learn from the multi- million dollar penalties recently issued by the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for privacy violations?

Recently, the OCR singled out two prominent healthcare organizations—Cignet Health of Maryland with a penalty of $4.3 million dollars and Massachusetts General with a settlement of $1 million—both for allegedly violating the Federal HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule, the rule that protects the privacy of patient healthcare information.

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Upcoming Paper Shredding Events

Looking for an excuse to destroy those old files and documents? Need to pulverize old credit cards and badges? Have sensitive info on those old cd's and discs? Well, here's your chance!

A Plus Paper Shredding has several Free Document Destruction events scheduled in the Louisville area.

April 16: 9am-11:30am at
St. MAM Ministries
201 Biltmore Road

April 30: 8:30am-11am at

New Goshen Presbyterian Church

12900 W. Highway 42

 

May 14 · 10:00am - 4:00pm at

Falls of Ohio

 

All of the organizations will accept small cash donations to help support their organizations.

 

For more info, call us at 502.640.4223