No appointment necessary. You watch us shred.

Drop in with a bag, a box or a car full. You watch as we shred your documents.

Drop-in hours
Tuesday – Saturday
11 AM – 3 PM
Closed Sundays, Mondays and holidays
A sheet of Shred Center letterhead feeding into the blades of an industrial shredder
Drop in

No appointment necessary

Come by any time during drop-in hours with a bag, a box or a car full.

Stay and watch

You watch us shred

We shred your documents within seconds, right before your eyes.

Drives too

We crush hard drives

Bring old drives and we’ll crush them while you watch.

Pickup

We’ll come to you

Too much to bring in? We pick up from businesses and homes, and send you a Certificate of Destruction.

Schedule a Pickup
What we shred

Paper! And then some.

Metal clips and staples are fine. Please keep non-paper items separate from your paper as best you can.

Paper

Metal clips & staples OK

  • Documents & records
  • Paper folders
  • Envelopes
  • Checks
  • Receipts

Non-paper

Keep separate from paper

  • X-rays
  • Photos / negatives
  • CDs
  • Floppy disks
  • USB sticks
  • Clothing (brand security)
  • Credit cards
  • Label paper

We don’t destroy

  • VHS tapes
  • Cassette tapes
  • Phones
  • Tablets

More on what we shred

Rates

Priced by the cubic foot.

We measure what you bring by volume, not weight.

Rates

1 cu ft = 1,728 cu in

PaperAbout 70¢ per pound
$20 / cu ft
Non-paperPhotos, CDs, DVDs, floppy disks, clothing, etc.
$40 / cu ft
Hard drivesCrushed
$20 / drive
Hard drive removalRemoval service only available at our Concord location
$20 / drive
Minimum chargeWe measure what you bring and charge in $1 increments
$1

Mixed loads are charged at the higher rate, so keep paper and non-paper separate.

A banker’s box of paper
$20. A standard box is 15 × 12 × 10 inches, and we treat it as 1 cubic foot.
A paper grocery bag
$10–$14. We measure the paper, not the bag, so a half-full bag costs about half as much.
How long it takes
About 2 minutes per cubic foot.

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Locations

Two stores. Same hours.

Drop in Tuesday through Saturday, 11 AM to 3 PM.

We provide service to Santa Clara, San Jose, Cupertino, Mountain View, Los Gatos, Milpitas, Fremont, Sunnyvale, Redwood City, San Carlos, Belmont, Burlingame, Hillsborough, San Bruno, Daly City, South San Francisco, San Francisco, San Mateo, Orinda, Lafayette, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek, Martinez, Pacheco, Benicia, Pittsburgh, Antioch, Brentwood, Concord, Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara County, San Francisco County, San Mateo County. We provide hard drive destruction, paper shredding, document shredding, document destruction, records destruction, file destruction, medical records destruction, file management, records management, paper shredding near me.

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