I can recount a similar story to Steve's. When I worked at Yale, a
particular office (which shall go unnamed) would use it's old/obsolete
records as fuel for fire during the winter. The office, in a Gothic style
building, had a large reception area, much like a great hall, with a great
big hearth, which they used to warm the space. One day a stranger came in
with a singed record documenting a student saying that he saw it fall to
earth on the New Haven Green. What happened is the warm air lifted some of
the papers up the chimney an into the air above New Haven, where it
floated about a half mile before it fell back to Earth. The office learned
its lesson, sort of, and stopped dumping records in the hearth as the
cheap way to destroy them. Like Steve said, you get what you pay for and
cheap does not equate with economical.
Stephen Cohen, Records Manager
MetLife \ Legal Affairs
1095 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036-6796
212-578-2373
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