Please do not assume that your storage/destruction vendor shreds everything
prior to recycling/disposal, unless that is what the agreement is.  When I
was running a corporate records program and we contracted with "the" large
records management service (storage, destruction, on-site shredding, etc)
provider each destruction request required me to check off whether the
records were to be shredded and recycled, or just recycled.

It makes economic and environmental sense that they sell the materials (in
whatever shape/condition) to pulpers, but be sure you know what the
agreement is with your vendor.  We also calculated the amount of paper
recycled in this manner as we were required to report to the county where we
were located the amount the business recycled each year.

On the other hand there are other ways to dispose of the records and do good
things for the environment.  At a municipal records program that I managed,
we sent about 500 cf a quarter that we were destroying to the local
waste-to-energy plant where it was burned and converted to electricity.
Public works would send a trash truck and we would hurl the boxes in from
the dock and off they went to the plant a couple miles down the road.  A
destruction certificate would be faxed over once the material went into the
hopper.

Tod Chernikoff, CRM

-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Doug Smith
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 9:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [RM] Recycling of Shredded Paper

I think that is accurate.  Most vendors are selling the materials to a
pulper to increase profit.
 
Doug Smith
202-719-4455



----- Original Message ----
From: Gary Grieme <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 9:11:02 AM
Subject: [RM] Recycling of Shredded Paper


Our firm is reviewing our recycling practices.  We use a couple of different
shredding vendors who assure us they recycle the paper they shred.  Is it
safe to assume all the major shredding vendors recycle what they shred,
assuming the paper is of standard quality?

-- 
Gary Grieme
Records Manager

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