Recycling should be every shredding company’s priority. We recycle 100% of our shredded paper, and do our best to protect the environment the best way we know how.

This section offers information on what recycling paper entails, reasons why you should recycle other items, and interesting facts and practices.

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How Hard Drive Destruction and Recycling Goes Hand in Hand

by | Updated May 13, 2020 | Recycling | 4 min read
When looking into ways to dispose of and recycle your hard drives and electronic devices, you have probably researched formatting, degaussing, and hard drive destruction. Though all can be used to help protect your private data, hard drive destruction is proven to be 100% effective and is packaged to...
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How Does Electronics Recycling Work?

by | Updated May 13, 2020 | Recycling | 3 min read
Electronics waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world. The lifespan of our devices is getting shorter, and our demand for the newest high-tech gadgets is getting larger. As this cycle continues, electronics recycling is becoming more and more important. By not recycling electronics, they end up...
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Why Electronics Shredding Is the Best Way to Recycle

by | Updated May 28, 2019 | Recycling | 2 min read
When it’s time to recycle your old electronics, you have two options: take them to an electronics recycling service yourself, or have them shredded. So which should you choose? Key differences in cost, convenience, and security make shredding the best way to recycle old electronics. Cost Shredding services offer...
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Why You Can’t Recycle Shreds Yourself

by | Updated April 2, 2020 | Recycling | 2 min read
Because paper shreds are too small to sort during recycling compared to other materials, most recycling plants won’t accept them in small volumes. This means that you lose the chance to be sustainable if you shred your own files—and if you want to recycle instead, then you can’t shred....
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EPA Compliant Hard Drive Destruction

by | Updated May 29, 2019 | Recycling | 4 min read
EPA Overview The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established in 1970 to protect human health and the environment—acknowledging that the two are deeply interrelated. Humans rely on the earth for bountiful natural resources—the air we breathe, the soil and sunlight that produces the food we eat, the water we...
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What Happens To Paper After It’s Shredded

by | May 17, 2018 | Recycling | 3 min read
Shredding private files keeps your information safe, but what happens to your documents after they’re shredded? For the eco-conscious citizen, the hope is that your shreds are recycled. Individuals typically can’t send their paper shreds to be recycled because small volumes of shreds are too messy for recycling centers,...
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Can You Put Shredded Paper in the Recycle Bin?

by | Updated May 29, 2019 | Recycling | 3 min read
If you are both safety conscious and environmentally conscious you will want to shred private files and then recycle them. Unfortunately, paper shreds cannot be placed in the recycle bin. If you put shredded paper in your recycling bin, it will almost certainly end up in a landfill. Why...
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Sustainable Shredding for Environmentally-Friendly Business

by | May 12, 2017 | Recycling | 3 min read
  Video Transcription Environmentally-friendly practices in the office is becoming a necessary adherence to most companies, with benefits not only to the environment, but to the business as well. Data protection from identity thieves and competing businesses are also of big concern to most companies, but these two areas...
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Making the Most of Shredded Paper: (Re)Using it to Your Advantage

by | Updated May 20, 2019 | Recycling | 4 min read
As identity theft, fraud, and data breaches become increasingly common, a similarly increasing number of businesses and individuals are coming to recognize the importance of shredding their sensitive documents and information. With the growing number of people turning to document shredding to protect from security risks however, new obstacles...
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How to Recycle Shredded Paper

by | Updated May 20, 2019 | Recycling | 3 min read
The individual who is both safety conscious and environmentally conscious faces a conundrum: what to do with shredded documents. Many people don’t realize that you can’t easily recycle shredded paper bits. Shredding old files is a necessary precaution for individuals and businesses looking to protect their personal and confidential...