In the past, I found a local company that would shred documents on site if we then allowed them to sell the shreddings for recycling.  No cost for the shredding.  We emptied a warehouse of a few hundred boxes of cancelled checks -- no cost for shredding.

Call around - that is how we found that vendor - it was in the Baltimore MD area.

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From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jones, Virginia
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 11:32 AM
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Subject: Re: Recycling versus Shredding costs

Steve:
We are charged by the box for recycling and by the pound for shredding.  The charge per box is about $3 and the per pound price is $.15.  So a standard records box would cost $3 for recycling and $4.50 for shredding (assuming 30 pounds of records per box).  Recycling pickup (bins) usually costs about $.03 per pound and shredding pickup (bins) cost about $.25 per pound.  We use different vendors for box destruction from storage and for in-house bin pickup.

Ginny Jones
(Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI)
Records Manager
Information Technology Division
Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities
Newport News, VA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Petersen, Steve
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 11:10 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Recycling versus Shredding costs

Does anybody have hard statistics on the costs of recycling vs shredding of documents. My current employer has bins for both and after a discussion on whether to just dump everything into a single shred bin it's come down to the cost difference.

Any input is appreciated

Thanks


Steve Petersen CRM
Enterprise Records Management
319-355-5837


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