Patent ID: 8751340

Claim:
A method comprising: transferring one or more financial institution items to a bin for transporting the items to be destroyed; associating the bin with a bin identifier comprising placing a seal on the bin, where the seal comprises the bin identifier; providing an indication of which items are in the bin comprising: providing one or more groupings of the one or more financial institution items; creating a label for each of the groupings; and associating the labels corresponding to the items placed in the bin with the bin identifier; creating a manifest comprising bin identifiers and items associated with each bin; allowing the bin to be transported for destruction; receiving a destruction notification comprising the bin identifier indicating the items in the bin were destroyed in response to safe transport and safe destruction of the items in the bin; verifying the bin identifiers received in the destruction notification against the manifest in response to receiving the notification of destruction of the items in the bin; and receiving notification of an incident in response to the bin being compromised.