Once the legal retention periods have passed, it’s time to clean up your paper or digital archives! If you don’t have the time or inclination to engage in this time-consuming exercise, call us: Archives Conseil takes over. And with the utmost professionalism, to treat your archives with the utmost confidentiality. Find out today how we go about it and the challenges of recycling your paper archives.
When to destroy your archives?
Are the documents you have chosen to archive on our premises no longer useful and are no longer subject to a retention period set by the law on legal archiving ? We also offer destruction services! Archives Conseil takes care of the destruction, compacting and recycling of all your paper documents, CDs, diskettes, VHS, x-rays, tracings, etc. We will also provide you with a certificate of destruction/recycling at the end of the procedure.
The destruction of archives stored in your company
Are the archives to be destroyed in your offices? No problem. Archives Conseil has several solutions to offer you. The first, the “one shot”, consists of scheduling a passage during which our drivers take care of handling the documents directly where they are stored (cellar, attic, etc.). They load and transport the documents to be kept to the processing center where they will be destroyed. The second is regular sorting: you can’t just throw your documents away if you work in an industry where confidentiality matters, like a hospital or a law firm. We then provide you with collection equipment that will remain at your home and define together the frequency of passage to empty it.
And recycling in all this?
Did you know ? It takes 17 trees to make a ton of paper. But 1.1 tons of “used” paper can make one ton of recycled paper. Archives Conseil is aware of this and is very involved in the ecological cause. In this respect, recycling is a pillar of our activities. In our eyes, your documents are not waste, but raw materials. We also follow European standards when it comes to recycling your document archives.
Take advantage of our advice on destroying archived documents!
Do not hesitate ! For all your document archiving, destruction and digitization work, trust Archives Conseil and its 40 years of experience in the field! You can contact our team of professional archivists by e-mail at info@archivesconseil.be or fill out our contact form on our website to receive a free quote.
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