Total Shredding

What Total Shredding does

Total Shredding is a privately held secure destruction services company headquartered in Monrovia, California, operating since 2007 with a headcount in the 11–50 range. The company provides both on-site and off-site shredding of paper documents, hard drives, and optical media, addressing end-of-life data disposal requirements for businesses and organizations. Its service scope beyond paper — into hard drive and optical media destruction — positions it in the secure data sanitization segment rather than commodity office shredding.

The business model is service-based and local. Mobile shredding units travel to client sites for witnessed destruction, while off-site service transports material to a company facility. Revenue is generated through per-pickup pricing, volume-based billing, and recurring scheduled service contracts typical of the document destruction industry. The customer base is implicitly regional (Southern California) and spans SMBs plus compliance-driven accounts in healthcare, legal, financial services, and government, though no specific customer information is publicly documented.

No funding rounds, acquisitions, partnerships, certifications, or management disclosures are present in the available data. The company operates as a stable, small-scale regional service provider with an 18-year operating history but limited public visibility.

Name

Total Shredding

Website

https://total-shredding.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Total Shredding provides secure on-site and off-site shredding of paper documents, hard drives, and optical media for Southern California businesses requiring compliant data destruction.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Secure Document Destruction Services

NAICS

Waste Collection (5621), Solid Waste Collection (562111), All Other Waste Management Services (56299), Other Waste Collection (562119)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Confidential Document & Media Destruction (On-site Shredding Programs) (BPABALAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Confidential Document Destruction & Secure Recycling (Shredding) (IMAIAFAO), Data Destruction Services (On-site/Off-site, Media Sanitization) (BPALAIAC), Secure Destruction & Confidential Waste (Paper/Product Destruction—Non-hazardous) (EUAIAGAJ)

Keywords

• Document shredding services
• Secure media destruction
• Hard drive destruction
• Paper shredding services
• Information destruction services

Headquarters

HQ city

Monrovia

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Total Shredding specializes in the secure on-site and off-site shredding of paper documents, hard drives, and optical media. The company provides physical destruction services for sensitive information-bearing materials, targeting organizations that require secure disposal for compliance and information-security purposes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• On-site Paper Shredding Secure shredding of paper documents performed at the customer's site via mobile shredding vehicles, providing chain-of-custody destruction for sensitive business records.
• Off-site Paper Shredding Collection of paper documents from the customer's location followed by secure shredding at the company's facility for routine high-volume destruction needs.
• Hard Drive Destruction Physical destruction of hard drives and electronic storage media to permanently prevent data recovery, supporting end-of-life IT asset disposal and data sanitization compliance.
• Optical Media Destruction Secure physical destruction of optical media (CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs) to prevent unauthorized access to data stored on disc-based media.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Waste Management: Largest North American waste services company with a Document Solutions group offering shredding, records storage, and media destruction. Comparable as a broad incumbent that competes with Total Shredding for regulated, recurring destruction contracts.
• Cintas: Operates a large document destruction and records management business alongside its core uniform and facility services. Comparable as a route-based, recurring service competitor to Total Shredding with a national footprint.
• Iron Mountain: Global information management giant that acquired Shred-it; offers secure shredding, media destruction, and records storage as part of a broad compliance and storage portfolio. Comparable as the largest end-to-end incumbent in the same services space.
• Republic Services: Major national solid waste hauler offering document destruction services as part of its broader environmental services portfolio. Comparable as a large-scale, route-dense waste services provider competing for the same end customers.

Direct peers

• Corodata: Regional records storage and shredding provider serving Southern California business customers. Highly comparable as a similarly sized competitor operating in Total Shredding's home market.
• SecurShred: NAID AAA-certified on-site document and hard drive destruction company serving small and mid-sized businesses. Directly comparable service mix, certifications posture, and target customer profile.
• ProShred Security: Franchised on-site mobile shredding network serving small and mid-sized businesses across North America. Closely comparable business model (mobile on-site shredding, recurring service contracts) and a franchise-based growth path relevant to Total Shredding.
• Data Destruction Corporation: Specialty provider focused on hard drive and electronic media destruction alongside paper shredding. Comparable on the ITAD-adjacent, media-sanitization side of Total Shredding's service mix.
• Shred-it (Iron Mountain): The dominant North American on-site document and media destruction provider, now part of Iron Mountain. Directly comparable service model (on-site shredding, hard drive destruction, recurring routes) and the primary competitive threat to Total Shredding.

Regional players

• Shred Station (Restore plc): UK-based on-site shredding operator (part of Restore plc) with a similar recurring service model. Comparable as a regional shredding specialist, though it operates in a different geography.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/total_shredding

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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