Regarding burning paper records with coal; I would like to hear more
about this.  When I worked for a large energy company, they still had a
few coal-fired power plants.  The coal process was:   the coal was
pulverized, then ground up into powder, and sprayed into the chamber
where it instantly burned/vaporized.  Unless they grind up the paper
records along with the coal, I do not see how it would work and not
negatively impact the heat rate.

By the way, I hate the paper media for information management
purposes.

Best regards, Steve
Steven D. Whitaker, CRM
Records Systems Manager; City of Reno

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I would think shredding and recycling would be a better solution than
burning. Burning in a crematorium would consume natural gas and create
ash that would need to be landfilled. Shredding/recycling would be
better for the environment, and, I would bet, be less costly.

Also, unless quantities to be destroyed are quite small, burning in
this way would be (at least I suspect), slow and laborious. Normally, I
destroy several to many hundreds of records boxes at a time. What I have
seen of usual crematoria doesn't seem to be intended for this volume.

I do recall a discussion on this list a few years back about burning to
destroy, in which a few posters mentioned burning at power plants that
burn coal. I think one or more of the utilities mixed paper records in
with the coal -- just more fuel to generate electricity.

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