My office has sensitive information on old CDs, floppies, etc. How can we safely destroy these? Can someone do this for us?
Many offices on campus have access to shred bins where highly sensitive information can be placed for secure destruction. Offices that do not have a shred bin should use office crosscut shredders to destroy highly sensitive documents. Many of these shredders will also shred CDs and DVDs.
For disposal of large quantities of CDs, DVDs or floppy disks, University Archives can arrange for the secure disposal vendor to pick these items up from your office and dispose of them offsite. There will be a charge for this service.
Warehousing and Recycling will shred documents for you, but they only have a strip shredder and strip shredding is not an approved method of destruction for highly sensitive information. You may not ask them to shred any documents that contain highly sensitive information.
Boxes of documents should not be left in hallways with a "burn" tag on them; there no longer is a service on campus that will burn documents. Documents containing highly sensitive information should never be left in an unattended area even when awaiting destruction.
