NAID AAA Certified shredding, hard drive destruction, and secure records storage for businesses, organizations, and residents in Manhattan, Kansas, and surrounding communities.
Open Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Drop-offs by appointment only.
Secure paper shredding for records and files, plus CDs, DVDs, flash drives, x-rays, and other items with sensitive information. Choose recurring service with secure locking containers, or a one-time purge for large cleanouts.
Learn more about document shreddingErasing a hard drive doesn’t guarantee the data is gone. We physically shred hard drives and SSDs, and every job comes with a certificate of destruction. We also record serial numbers unless you opt out.
Learn more about hard drive destructionKeep the records you need without giving up office space. Our Manhattan location offers secure shelf storage for documents, billed by the cubic foot, and when your records reach the end of their retention period, we’ll destroy them for you.
Learn more about records storageRecycle old laptops, desktops, keyboards, and other electronics securely. Devices are taken apart and the parts recycled through R2 and RIOS certified recycling partners, and whole items are never resold.
Learn more about e-waste recyclingHost a shred day for your community or your clients. UV&S brings the trucks, staff, and shredding equipment. Events are for personal documents rather than bulk business loads.
Learn more about shred eventsFor when you’d rather bring your materials to us.
For offices that create sensitive paperwork every week.
For large projects at home or work: clearing out years of stored files, moving or closing an office, or destroying records past their retention date.
Our shredding is audited by i-SIGMA, the industry’s certification body, to the highest standard for secure destruction.
Every shred invoice includes a certificate of destruction, hard drive jobs can include a serial number listing, and every pickup follows a documented chain of custody.
Our process supports HIPAA, GLBA, and FACTA requirements for disposing of protected information.
UV&S has protected records for more than 65 years, using our own trucks and our own staff from pickup to destruction.
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Need more than shredding and storage? UV&S also supports Manhattan businesses with managed IT, and offers specialized storage, film services, and event services through our other divisions.
UV&S Technology gives Manhattan-area businesses a full IT team without the cost of hiring one, including help desk support, cybersecurity, backup and disaster recovery, business phones, and data center services. Support is U.S.-based, with on-call coverage around the clock.
“UV&S has provided our organization with much-needed consistency in an ever changing IT environment, understanding our limitations as a non-profit and effectively prioritizing upgrades.”
For media, film, and items that need climate control or extra security, UV&S offers media vaults, refrigerated storage, and underground vaults in a Hutchinson salt mine, with more locations across the U.S. and U.K. We’ve protected museum collections, film, and historical records for decades, and we’re a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists.
For museums, libraries, archives, and anyone with a film collection, R3store Studios digitizes and restores film, and Salt Vault Studio repackages archival footage for streaming platforms.
UV&S Event Services helps brands stand out at film festivals, large trade show booths, and in-store activations.
Bring them to UV&S at 5106 Murray Rd, Manhattan, KS 66503. Drop-offs are by appointment, so call (785) 537-1222 Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., to schedule. For larger amounts, we can pick up from your office instead.
Residents are welcome. You can drop off documents, drives, and electronics by appointment, or schedule a purge for larger amounts.
Our Manhattan location serves Riley, Chase, Clay, Geary, Lyon, Marshall, Morris, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee, and Washington counties. Not sure if we come to your town? Call (785) 537-1222.
Yes. Through our other locations, UV&S provides shredding service across all of Kansas and Kentucky, most of Missouri and Oklahoma, and parts of Indiana. Have more than one location? Call (785) 537-1222 and tell your sales rep where they all are. One rep will put together an estimate covering every location and handle your service from there.
Yes. Call (785) 537-1222 Monday to Friday, between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m., to book a drop-off time.
Paper records, file folders, envelopes, notebooks, CDs, DVDs, flash drives, and hard drives, plus computers and other electronics for e-waste recycling. For shredding, we can’t accept wet paper, plastic, glass, batteries, trash, or medicine. Let us know what you’re bringing when you book.
No. Staples, paper clips, binder clips, and rubber bands can go in with your paper.
Yes. Every shred invoice includes a certificate of destruction. For hard drive jobs, we also record serial numbers unless you opt out.
It’s shredded into strips that meet NAID requirements, baled, and sent to a paper mill to be pulped and recycled.
Pricing depends on how much you have and the type of service. Call us for a quick estimate.
Yes. We offer secure shelf storage for records right here in Manhattan, billed by the cubic foot, and we can destroy your records when they reach the end of their retention period. For media or items that need climate control, we offer specialized storage at other UV&S facilities.
It depends on the type of record and your industry. Our records retention schedule is a good starting point, or call us with questions.
Privacy laws such as HIPAA, GLBA, and FACTA require organizations to protect personal information when they dispose of it, including when a vendor does the work. With a certified shredding company, outside auditors have checked that the process is secure, so you’re not relying on the vendor’s word alone.
NAID AAA Certification is the information destruction industry’s leading certification. It’s run by i-SIGMA, the International Secure Information Governance & Management Association, which formed in 2018 when NAID merged with PRISM International. Only companies that pass i-SIGMA’s certification audits can call themselves NAID AAA Certified.
Certified companies go through both scheduled and unannounced audits. Auditors review how information is handled, secured, and destroyed, including facility security, employee screening, chain of custody, and destruction methods.
Choosing a certified vendor is one way to show you did your homework. The FTC’s Disposal Rule lists hiring a destruction company certified by a recognized trade association as an example of reasonable due diligence, and i-SIGMA states that its certification meets clients’ vendor due diligence requirements.
When an auditor asks how you dispose of records, you can show our certification along with the certificate of destruction from each job.
Yes. Electronics are recycled through R2 and RIOS certified partners. R2 is the leading standard for responsible electronics recycling, and RIOS covers quality, environmental, and worker safety practices. Any parts that store data are physically destroyed.
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