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Find a Location

Shred-It, a Stericycle Company has 132 locations, listed below.

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    Business ProfileforShred-It, a Stericycle Company

    Document Shredding
    HeadquartersMulti Location Business
    BBB accredited business
    The Complaints and Reviews shown on this HQ profile may have been submitted against either the HQ itself or one of the corporate-owned locations found under "Find Locations".

    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1.02/5stars

    Average of 267 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    365 complaints closed in last 3 years

    119 complaints closed in last 12 months

    BBB Rating & Accreditation

    Accredited Since: 5/14/2024

    Years in Business: 33

    Customer Reviews are not used in the calculation of BBB Rating

    Overview of BBB Rating

    Overview

      Shred-It, a Stericycle Company offers secure and sustainable shredding and recycling of confidential papers and hard drives. Services include One-Time Paper Shredding, Scheduled Shredding with ProtectPLUS, Drop Off Paper Shredding, Residential Shredding, Hard Drive Destruction, Product Destruction & Specialty Shredding, Mobile Paper Shredding and more. 

    Business Details

    This is a multi-location business.

    Find a Location

    Shred-It, a Stericycle Company has 132 locations, listed below.

    *This company may be headquartered in or have additional locations in another country. Please click on the country abbreviation in the search box below to change to a different country location.

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      Headquarters
      2355 Waukegan Rd, Bannockburn, IL 60015-1586
      BBB File Opened:
      6/1/2002
      Years in Business:
      33
      Business Started:
      11/12/1990
      Business Incorporated:
      11/12/1990
      Accredited Since:
      5/14/2024
      Type of Entity:
      Corporation
      Alternate Business Name
      • Shred-It, Inc.
      Related Businesses
      Hours of Operation

      Primary

      M:
      8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
      T:
      8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
      W:
      8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
      Th:
      8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
      F:
      8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
      Sa:
      Closed
      Su:
      Closed
      Business Management
      • Ms. Laura Lopez, Office Supervisor
      • Ms. Christie Rank, Manager
      Contact Information

      Principal

      • Ms. Laura Lopez, Office Supervisor
      • Ms. Christie Rank, Manager

      Customer Contact

      • Ms. Christie Rank, Manager
      Additional Contact Information

      Fax Numbers

      • (630) 462-1079
        Primary Fax

      Customer Complaints

      365 Customer Complaints

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      Most Recent Customer Complaint

      07/11/2024

      Complaint Type:
      Customer Service Issues
      Status:
      Resolved
      Our company has encountered numerous service and billing issue with Stericycle/Shred It. For the past few months, they have billed us for services even though they did not complete the pickup of our recycling. They stated they could not "access the waste" even though the service orders state they attempted to collect during our regular business hours. When the bins became full, I contacted them for a pickup and after being run around by their customer service department for multiple weeks I finally requested a cancellation of our service and for them to come and pick up the bins. Initially they said they have to check our contract and when I refused, they stated they would cancel and schedule a time to come pick up their bins. They have not scheduled the appointment to collect the equipment. To date no one has contacted me, and we still have the equipment.
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      Customer Reviews

      267 Customer Reviews

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      Most Recent Customer Review

      Casa W

      1 star

      07/24/2024

      This is a nightmare service for businesses. Our nonprofit has used their pick up shredding service for at least 9 years. Starting around late 2019 and continuing up to this moment (July 2024), they've been impossible to work with for pick *** in downtown ***********. An account manager told me they never no-show or reschedule. I can count at least 8 times in the past 4 years that they failed to show up for one of our 6 yearly pick ***. You'll sometimes receive an email saying they're coming and sometimes you won't. They'll cancel your service the day of or email you the day of to say they'll arrive, leaving you no time to plan and then you'll be charged for a pick up anyway which will take MONTHS and hours on the phone to have removed from your bill. **************** and the local dispatchers have zero communication between them, so it's pointless to try to do anything through the portal or over the phone. Every call to customer service will be at least 30 minutes if not longer. In April 2024 I was promised by an account manager that all the problems were solved, but they only managed one pick up before the problems reoccured with them arriving unannounced a month early for our next pick up. I cancelled the service on July 8th, 2024 and was told that someone would be in touch within a week to pick up our bin. No one ever contacted us. On July 24th, I received an email saying we had a document purge pick up scheduled for July 26th. I had to spend another ***************************************************************** it was a mistake. They then mentioned that someone would be coming the next day, July 25th to get out bin. No one has EVER communicated with us about that and no one will be in the office which I told the representative. They countered that that's the day someone will be in our service area, as if I should be accommodating them after years of this disaster. I'm now supposedly waiting on a call from yet another rep to sort it out.

      Shred-It, a Stericycle Company Response

      07/25/2024

      Hi ****, We are sorry to hear about your experience and have escalated this with our customer resolution team to look into. A team member will be reaching out to you to address your issues. If you have further issues or concerns, please contact us at customer-************************************ or 800-69-SHRED.

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