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| Topic Started: Jul 17 2017, 05:24 AM (196 Views) | |
| Trotsky | Jul 17 2017, 05:24 AM Post #1 |
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Last week we were notified that the area will have free shredder service all day June 9. So all week I dutifully gathered together my shreddables (all checks from 1970 with bank statements to match, paid credit card bills older than 5 years, old affordable housing applications, etc, etc. We filled a shopping cart with tightly packed paper. At least 50 pounds (23 kilos) of paper. Rolled down to the shredding place: NO TRUCK. Rolled it back, muttering the whole way. Walked around the full cart all week Apologies from Assemblyman and councilman. Partial promises to try again June 16. So we tried again and into the shredder it all went <yaaay>, making some room under one of the beds. Cool, your stuff is hoisted up and dumped into the truck, and fed onto a conveyer belt inside. A video camera and screen shows your paperwork going into the grinders. I asked what is done with the shreds? Cellulose insulation? Guy said "No, it is reground at the factory and baled and then shipped TO CANADA where it is usually made into toilet paper." I said, "so Canadians get to wipe their asses with my old checks?" And he said "They probably sell the toilet paper back to us."Posted Image Edited by Trotsky, Jul 17 2017, 05:33 AM.
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| agate | Jul 17 2017, 05:32 AM Post #2 |
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Really!!! bounce and jump045 That is to funny |
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| Delphi51 | Jul 17 2017, 06:59 AM Post #3 |
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I think paper can only be recycled into paper at a pulp mill. Our paper recycling is trucked 400 km to the nearest one. I very much doubt it is either cost or environmentally worthwhile. |
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| wildie | Jul 17 2017, 08:29 AM Post #4 |
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All our recycled paper is collected weekly. The recyclers then sell the shredded product to insulation manufacturers, toilet paper producers and newspaper suppliers. |
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