Recycling your paper shreds

Rather than tossing your shredded documents in the trash you can now recycle them to help the environment.

Several areas across the company provide recycling programs, which will remove your shredded paper for free, with some programs compensating the participates. In addition, not only are you protecting your privacy, but the environment as well.

My company's paper shredders range in size for small desktops with low volume to enormous DOD certified industrial shredders that have both a conveyor and bailer. The amount of shredded paper we produce is astounding. Many of our employees did not want to add to the local landfill. We considered our options then spoke with several experts and received several recommendations before deciding to go with the recycling company that we currently use.

The company we use takes our shredded paper, sales it to a company that produces new products, which costs less. Recycling helps to reduce pollution, by reducing the demands for high-pollution alternatives, and decreases the amount of land needed for landfills.

Recycling can be accomplished within a company or after a product has been sold and used. Internal recycling happens when leftover stock is salvaged or reused to make new product and is considered to contain pre-consumer waste. When materials have been used by the customer, such as our shredded paper, and are used to manufacture new products, then that product is called post-consumer waste.

Recycle Your Paper Shreds