Education Shredding Services For Schools & Colleges

Many schools & colleges in London, Kent, Essex, Sussex, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire are turning to PaperMountains to help them manage the destruction and recycling of their confidential paperwork. Here are some of the reasons why:


PaperMountains is highly experienced working within Nurseries, Primary Schools, Secondary Schools, FE, HE Colleges, Universities (as well as Special Education) to deliver safe, secure confidential shredding services to the BSEN 15713 Standard.

This can be one off, yearly or end of term bulk collections of expired records and coursework. PaperMountains will supply sacks,locking bins or skips to start your clean out and when they are full pick them up and confidentialy destroy the contents.

In addition we offer secure locking bins or confidential shredding consoles with shredding service visits on a regular basis to suite you. This is ideal for the disposal of day to day waste paper which may contain sensitive personal data. Good habits are important for maintaining GDPR compliance, a secure work environment and a efficient office. PaperMountains offers a regular secure shredding service where we supply secure, locking consoles and bins which you use as you generate paer and we collect at an agreed period, either weekly, every two weeks, monthly, bi-monthly, quartly or yearly to suit volumes produced. If you are clearing out of date pupil records, administration documents or other paperwork which has been your archives or getting rid of old coursework PaperMountains can deliver large locking bins for you to fill with paper either on-demand, at the end of term or year and collect them for shredding to the BSEN 15713 standard for confidential destruction when you have filled them.

These locking bins are ideal for disposing of old coursework or pupil records that have reached the end of their retion period and need to be destroyed to keep you in compliance with the general data protection regulations (GDPR). PaperMountains does not charge extra for short term use of bins during clearouts like this, in fact there are no hidden surcharges or levies in our pricing, what we quote is what you pay. PaperMountains is registered with the Information Comisioners Office, The Environment Agency and operates it's confidential destruction service to BSEN 15713 so you can be sure that your school or college gets the best quality service to fully comply with the relevant data protection and environment legislation. For all materials PaperMountains produces in the shredding process of both paper, hard drives and other media we aim to maximise the amount we recycle by seperating it into appropriate streams.

We follow the five R's of waste management: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover and Residual Management to ensure that WEEE equipment such as printers, PC cases, laptops etc which are not being shredded are disposed of in the most environmently friendly way posible, discharging your duty of Care.