Southland Waste Systems, through its subsidiary Southland Recycling Services, offers a full range of commercial recycling and material destruction services to businesses throughout northeast Florida. As part of our commercial recycling services, we offer extensive office paper and cardboard recycling programs including shredding and disposal of confidential documents. In addition to the document destruction, we provide destruction and recycling services for a variety of other materials.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions, comments, complaints, or suggestions, or if you need additional information about any of our services.

You can call our sales and service line at 904-354-8107
or email us at recycle@southland-enviro.com

OFFICE PAPER AND CARDBOARD RECYCLING

Southland Recycling Services can provide a custom tailored recycling program for your office or business. To get started, we will conduct a free audit of your company's waste stream to determine how much recyclable material you generate, then design a program appropriate for your needs.

When you are a customer of Southland Recycling Services, we can provide a variety of services, including:

• Scheduled and on-call pickups
• Shredding of confidential documents
  
• Obsolete files recycling
  
• Desk-side recycling containers
• Centralized collection containers
• In-house training for employees
• Audit trail for the destruction of confidential documents

SHREDDING AND DESTRUCTION SERVICES

Along with our recycling, document destruction, and disposal services, we provide destruction of magnetic materials, microfilm and microfiche, Mylar, Tyvek, x-rays, disc packs, video tapes, plastic cards and branded products. We will custom design a destruction program to destroy your manufactured or printed products so they cannot be reconstructed or reused.

CONFIDENTIAL MATERIALS DESTRUCTION PROGRAM

SECURE FACILITIES AND OPERATIONS

We can provide lockable recycling and shredding containers and lockable wheeled carts that can be placed throughout your office. When the carts are full or on a regularly scheduled basis, our uniformed drivers will pick up the carts and transport them in an enclosed truck to our secure processing facility. Routine surveillance is performed periodically on all drivers, with emphasis on security procedures, scheduled stops and driving habits.

When the carts are received at our Florida Certified Recycling Facility, the carts are unloaded, individually weighed on our Florida Certified scale, manifested and sent to our secure fenced area with locking gates. The area is monitored by internal surveillance cameras and monitored 24 hours per day by electronic security equipment. The grounds are fully lighted.

Our employees are bonded, drug-tested, and screened through Florida law enforcement agencies and are thoroughly and professionally trained to handle all types of confidential information. They carry official company identification at all times. Employee security clearances are reviewed at least bi-annually.

Our pickup services will not interfere with your regular business activities. Schedules are tailored to your requirements and you will know in advance when materials will be picked up. Every driver is required to maintain a detailed activity route log for each stop and pickup made. This report details the client's name, address, time in and out, quantity of the pickup, and any problems they have observed or encountered. These reports are reviewed daily by our operations manager. A confidential material shred receipt is provided and signed by our employee and your representative indicating that the materials being removed are designated for destruction.

CONFIDENTIAL DESTRUCTION GUARANTEE

We guarantee that your materials will be destroyed, usually within 24 hours of pickup. A certificate of destruction will be furnished when you are invoiced. Destruction of confidential information may be witnessed, at your request, for an additional charge.

We will shred and bale all confidential documents that have a recycling market. Shredded papers will be sold only to paper mills for pulping and deinking and manufacturing into new paper.

We will shred, chop, or pulverize all other confidential materials and branded products and, if no recycling market is available, the products will be disposed of in an appropriately licensed landfill. The disposal costs will be included in your destruction charge.

All material shredded or destroyed will be in small fragments that cannot be reconstructed to their original form. We insure all materials will be handled in the most environmentally responsible manner. All recyclable materials will be processed for recycling.

RECYCLING INFORMATION

WHAT IS RECYCLING

Recycling involves three distinct steps represented by the three arrows of the traditional recycling symbol

• The collection and processing of recyclable materials
• The manufacturing of these materials into new products
• The purchase and use of products with recycled content

WHY SHOULD I WANT TO RECYCLE OFFICE PAPER AND CARDBOARD

• Recycling saves money be reducing your solid waste disposal costs
• Recycling saves landfill space and reduces your community's long term solid waste costs
• A recycling program will help your community meet its Florida mandated recycling goals
• Recycling increases confidentiality of your office papers
• Throwing recyclables away is a waste of valuable resources
• Recycling saves water and energy and it reduces air, water and visual pollution
• 80% of all office waste is recyclable paper and other materials
• Each ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees and 4,000 gallons of water

WHAT SHOULD I RECYCLE

• Financial records
• Personnel files
• Legal documents
• Payroll records
• Canceled checks
• Computer print outs
• Account records
• Medical records
• Inventory/customer lists
• Invoice and price lists
• Obsolete business records
• Microfiche
• Staples, paperclips and binders are OK! No sorting required.

CONTAMINANTS THAT SHOULD NOT BE INCLUDED IN AN OFFICE PAPER RECYCLING PROGRAM

• Carbon forms
• Overnight plastic mailing envelopes
• Food waste and coffee grounds
• Restroom waste
• Photographs
• Glass
• Wood
• Styrofoam