633squadron:
truly awesome!
Dewey Finn:
frightening
Mix it with used tea bags or coffee grounds and sprinkle it around the bottoms of your shrubbery. (shrubberies?) Just make sure it all gets wet or it will blow around.
Our shredded stuff usually goes into several different trash cans in the house. These get bagged and dumped at different intervals, so even if you dig into one bag, you couldn’t re-assemble a whole piece of document. Given that the shredder bin has all sorts of different papers in it, I feel pretty safe.
If you’ve got a decent bank, bring your personal docs to them for shredding and/or disposing.
Eat it
Seriously, people are so worried about their stuff that that gerbil-shavings crosscut stuff isn’t good enough for them? Man, I got better things to do with my time.
Just rip the documents in several pieces, throw them in different garbage cans (maybe even alternate when you throw them out), and flush some down the toilet.
I’m sure there are a few people who ran out to get the microcut machines.
However, it’s mostly a marketing gimmick. If you’re in the market for your first shredder and you can choose regular cross cut or microcut, you will probably decide to take the microcut option if it isn’t too expensive.
40 molal, baby!
Clearly, you are not a “capital P” Paranoid.
You are very blessed not to have to worry about such things.
Keep in mind, for every document you shred there are likely 2 or 3 copies out there from the people who sent it to you that are NOT shredded.
I use mine as kitty litter.
If someone wants to put it together after the cats have pooped over it, they are more than welcome.
I shudder at the idea of what needs 40 molal HCl to be safely disposed.
great
:eek:
One can never be too sure.
Cross cut shredder should be fine. To take it to the next step, mix up what’s in the bin thoroughly and put a half of it or so into the kitchen garbage each time you are ready to throw it out. You won’t likely have a full document in any one bag and what’s there will mix with any fluids or grease that’s in there and become useless.
ETA: I suppose you could mix it in water before even doing that and make a big pulp ball.
I’m not sure what you’re concerned with, and why a cross cut shredder isn’t sufficient. But assuming that the micro cut shredders I referred to above are also insufficient, here’s a link to a page listing shredders meeting DoD and NSA specifications. The resulting shreds are 1mm x 4.7mm, although the machines cost thousands of dollars.
Wow really?
How much time would it even take for me to reassemble one sheet of paper I put through a cross cut shredder? I would think it would be impossible.
I don’t home shred, and to be frank I think it’s a little bizarre, but I would love to have bags of shredded material for packing eBay sales. Bubble pack is very expensive, crumpled newspaper doesn’t pack all that well, and the shredded material I’ve been given from my place of work makes superb packing material.