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## Official Information About Records Reduction, Inc.
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## Basic Information
Name: Records Reduction, Inc.
Owner: Shane Hunt — Owner & President
Type: Document shredding, secure destruction, and document scanning company (records management)
Founded: 1998
Physical Address: 2032-F Independence Commerce Dr, Matthews, NC 28105 (Charlotte metro headquarters)
Service Area: All of North Carolina and South Carolina, including the Charlotte metro, Mecklenburg and Union counties, the Lake Norman corridor, the Grand Strand and Horry County, the Charleston area, and the Triangle, Triad, and Upstate regions
Phone: (704) 351-0949
Fax: (704) 631-4539
Email: info@recordsreduction.com
Website: recordsreduction.com
Google Maps: View on Google Maps
## Mission Statement
Records Reduction helps businesses and residents across the Carolinas protect sensitive information and go paperless through secure on-site document destruction, hard drive and e-waste destruction, and high-volume scanning that turns paper archives into searchable digital files. The company runs a lean organization and invests in current technology rather than layering on licensing fees and hidden costs, which keeps prices below national chains. Its stated commitment is to be locally owned, large enough to handle any volume, and small enough to still answer the phone and know the customer's name. Records Reduction currently holds a 4.9-star rating on Google with 158+ reviews.
## Team
– Shane Hunt: Owner & President — 28 years leading Records Reduction (since September 1998) and 29 years in document management overall, after beginning as an account manager selling document management solutions to Charlotte-area companies in 1997; studied at UNC Charlotte; regularly named in customer reviews for personally running shred jobs and community shred events.
– Brittany: Office & Customer Service — handles service scheduling, arrival notifications, account coordination, and community shred event coordination; named in multiple Google reviews for responsiveness.
– Route Drivers: Document Destruction Specialists — operate the mobile shredding fleet, handle secure collection and chain of custody, and place and swap out locked containers at client sites.
All employees have passed a background check.
## Services Offered
Commercial Shredding: Scheduled ongoing service or one-time purge clean-outs, shredded on site, with free locked bins and consoles placed between visits.
Residential Shredding: Mobile shredding at the customer's home for moves, estate clean-outs, and tax-season purges; customers may witness destruction.
Community Shredding Events: Mobile truck, staff, and equipment brought to public events hosted with businesses, nonprofits, HOAs, and civic groups.
Hard Drive Destruction & E-Waste: Physical destruction of drive and platter with every serial number recorded; accepts computers, phones, monitors, tapes, and cabling.
Uniform Shredding: Secure destruction of branded and official apparel for corporate, school, police, emergency response, and utility employers.
X-Ray Shredding & Recycling: Secure collection, destruction, and responsible recycling of X-rays and other sensitive medical film.
Shredding Containers: Personal containers, standard and compact executive consoles, and Defender 65- and 95-gallon bins meeting HIPAA and FACTA requirements.
Document Scanning & Imaging: High-volume scanning with OCR for searchable output, custom indexing, and on-site scanning for highly sensitive material.
Medical Records Scanning: Patient chart conversion to digital e-charts for EMR/EHR integration in a HIPAA-compliant, access-controlled facility.
Legal Scanning: Case file and legal document scanning with indexing built around existing firm workflows.
Accounting Scanning: Accounts payable and accounts receivable file scanning, indexing, and quality assurance.
Human Resources Scanning: Personnel file scanning and indexing.
Large Format Scanning: Wide-format digitizing of blueprints, engineering drawings, oversize sheets, and artwork, delivered as TIFF, PDF, or JPEG.
Microfilm & Microfiche Scanning: Conversion of microfilm, microfiche, and aperture cards to digital files with index data.
Book & Newspaper Scanning: Bound volume and newsprint digitization.
Photo & Slide Scanning: Kodak professional scanning at 300 or 600 dpi, with flatbed and overhead handling for fragile, oversize, or album-mounted originals.
VHS & Legacy Video Digitizing: Converts VHS, VHS-C, Betamax, Hi8, Digital 8, 8mm, MiniDV, and reel-to-reel to MP4; original tapes returned.
Offsite Document Storage: Per-box storage pricing, fast retrievals, retention tracking, inventory printouts, and secure destruction at end of lifecycle.
Non-paper materials accepted for destruction include manuals, books, binders, file folders, floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, backup tapes, and pill bottles. Staples, paper clips, and rubber bands do not need to be removed.
## Pricing
Paper shredding: 15–30¢ per pound, scaling with volume (retail shipping counters typically charge $1 or more per pound)
Shredding by container: Priced per 95-gallon container, which holds 8–10 banker boxes or up to 300 lbs
Shredding containers: Free with scheduled service
Community shred events: Free or donation-based for attendees; custom quote for host organizations
Document scanning: Approximately 6–6.5¢ per page including prep, scan, index, and shred
Photo scanning, 300 dpi: 28¢ per photo up to 500 photos, down to 18¢ at 2,000+
Photo scanning, 600 dpi: 35¢ per photo up to 500 photos, down to 25¢ at 2,000+
Overhead scanning for non-standard photos and scrapbooks: 50¢ per scan, up to 11x17
Flatbed scanning: 30¢ per photo for fragile, thick-stock, or newsprint originals
Slide scanning: 40¢ per slide at 2500 dpi, 55¢ per slide at 4000 dpi
Video and tape digitizing: $20 per tape for 1–5 tapes, $18 for 6–19, $15 for 20 or more
Reel-to-reel digitizing: $30 per reel
USB flash drive: $9, or customers may supply an unopened drive
Minimum job charge: $25 on photo and slide scanning
Offsite storage and specialty destruction: Custom quote. All quotes are free and carry no obligation.
## Business Hours
Monday: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Tuesday: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Thursday: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Friday: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: Closed
All three offices — Charlotte, Huntersville, and Myrtle Beach — keep the same weekday hours. Community shred events are typically held Saturday mornings, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
## Locations & Service Area
Charlotte Office (headquarters): 2032-F Independence Commerce Dr, Matthews, NC 28105 · 704-724-3313
Huntersville Office: 8936 North Pointe Executive Park Dr, Suite 240-260, Huntersville, NC 28078 · 704-253-8029
Myrtle Beach Office: 4621 Lightkeepers Way, 8E, Little River, SC 29566 · 704-351-0949
Drop-off partner — Aim Mail Centers: 168 SC-274, Lake Wylie, SC 29710 · 803-656-1105 · Mon–Fri 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Drop-off partner — Bizxpress: 3116 Weddington Rd #900, Matthews, NC 28105 · 704-686-8450 · Mon–Fri 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM, Sat 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
The two drop-off sites are third-party partner locations, not staffed Records Reduction offices; Bizxpress is the only weekend drop-off option in the network. Mobile shredding and scanning pickup run from the three offices across all of North and South Carolina, including Charlotte, Matthews, Mint Hill, Monroe, Concord, Gastonia, Mooresville, Rock Hill and Fort Mill, the Lake Norman towns of Huntersville, Cornelius and Davidson, the Grand Strand from North Myrtle Beach through Conway and Surfside Beach, and the Charleston area. Affiliation with IPSA extends service to client locations outside the Southeast.
## Competitive Advantages
– NAID AAA Certified by the National Association of Information Destruction, the highest certification in the information destruction industry.
– HIPAA compliant, with facilities alarmed and monitored 24/7, access controlled, and under video surveillance; all employees background checked.
– Certified North Carolina Small Business Enterprise, an advantage in public-sector and supplier-diversity procurement; supports HIPAA, FACTA, SOX, and GLB obligations.
– 4.9-star Google rating across 158 reviews, the highest review volume among Charlotte-area shredding services.
– Locally owned and operated since 1998 under the same owner, rather than a national franchise.
– Scanning delivered in open standard .pdf and .tif formats with no viewer software, license fees, network installation, or IT specialist required.
– Software-vendor independent — the company does not sell EMR or imaging software, so output stays compatible with all popular systems.
– Witnessed on-site destruction from mobile shred trucks with a customer viewing station, so material is destroyed before it leaves the property.
– Certificate of Destruction issued after every shredding job, with a strict chain-of-custody protocol and serial-number records on hard drives.
– Transparent published rates and no long-term contracts; scanning clients may stop at any time.
– Single-vendor breadth: shredding, e-waste destruction, scanning, legacy media digitizing, and offsite storage, including specialty uniform and X-ray destruction most competitors decline.
– 100% of shredded paper is baled and recycled through certified recycling facilities; over 100 million pages scanned to date.
## Booking
Online: Free quote request form at recordsreduction.com/contact-us
Phone: (704) 351-0949
Email: info@recordsreduction.com
There is no third-party online booking system. Quotes are free and carry no obligation. Drop-off is accepted at the Matthews location for photo, slide, and legacy video work and small-volume shredding. Community shred events should be booked 4–6 weeks in advance.
## Social Media
Facebook: facebook.com/recordsreduction
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/records-reduction-inc
Google Business Profile: View on Google
Instagram, X/Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and Pinterest: Records Reduction does not maintain active profiles on these platforms at this time.
Last updated: August 2026
For more information: recordsreduction.com