| Prescription documents found in Winnipeg alley
Shoppers Drug Mart says a man's discovery of hundreds of its prescription information documents strewn across a Winnipeg back alley was an isolated incident. A man discovered the documents, which include names, addresses, prescription information and health numbers, while walking past an alley behind St. Boniface General Hospital on Dec. 26.Prescription information and other drugstore documents were found in a Winnipeg back alley and handed to CBC on Wednesday.(CBC) The man brought the papers — enough to stuff three shopping bags — to the CBC in Winnipeg on Wednesday. On Thursday morning, CBC News turned them over to the Manitoba Pharmaceutical Association. Shoppers Drug Mart spokeswoman Lilian Relph said Thursday that all of its stores have in-store shredding machines or a contract with Shred-it, a document destruction company.
They won't recycle my shredded paper
A city pensioner has ripped into council bosses for refusing to take shredded paper for recycling - despite people being encouraged to dispose of sensitive material this way to prevent identity theft.Bert Sunderland, 71, has shredded bank statements and other sensitive documents for some time, but has always left them out for recycling.But he was shocked when city council waste contractors refused to take boxes of shredded paper from his Rider Haggard Road home just before Christmas. The father of three, grandfather of seven and great grandfather of two who lives on the Heartsease estate with his wife Beryl, said the council's stance was “ridiculous".“Everyone is talking about the dangers of identity theft and to shred anything that has any information about you," he said. “It might seem a small problem but they are selling these machines ten a penny and if you multiply that amount by 1,000 people, there's a considerable amount of good quality paper that's going to be chucked away.“There might be a reasonable explanation as to why they won't collect it or process it, but it seems strange to me that all that paper is going to go in the ground with the rubbish."The retired TV engineer urged council bosses to reconsider their position because there was so much paper going to waste.A spokeswoman for Norwich City Council said the authority could not accept shredded paper for recycling because shredding paper cuts the fibres so finely it reduces the quality of the paper, “making it unusable to most paper manufacturers who refuse to accept it".“Finely shredded pieces can also slip through and can clog up the machines used for recycling," she said.
Multiple Document Repositories And The Complexities Of Enterprise ...
Meeting todays ever-changing compliance requirements is both very difficult and critically important for any organization. It is no longer possible to simply use ad hoc document retention methodologies or to supply anything less than a complete set of documents when a discovery request is made. The cost of non-compliance or non-delivery of documents, especially when requested by either a government agency or the courts, can be enormous. One need only open any business periodical or newspaper to see the substantial fines inflicted on wayward organizations. In days gone by, documents were predominantly physical records stored in traditional files and boxes. This meant document destruction could be achieved by simply shredding of the requisite paper. Supplying boxes and boxes of documents satisfied document discovery requests.
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