Places to shred confidential paper documents

[goodlizzie]

Hi, I'm currently having a massive clear out at home and already have about 5 carrier bags full of paperwork that can only be shredded - it's way too much to do on the small shredder we have. Does anyone know of somewhere I can take it to be securely shredded that's within about 6 miles of ED please? I don't want it collected, I want to bring it myself.

Thanks, Liz

[DulwichFox]

Just Google 'Mobile Shredding'

Lots of them about.

Many will come out to you and shred on site.. Outside your house..

DulwichFox

[goodlizzie]

Thank you DulwichFox - think I may have to do that as I'm coming across more and more paperwork every time I open a cupboard.

[Sue]

I've been destroying decades worth of financial papers.

I stick them in a large bucket of water, leave them a bit, mush them up and put them in a bin bag.

[DulwichFox]

I shred all my secure paper.

I put it all in one of those Large paper garden waste sacks and put it in the BLUE Bin.

Else I give it to the bin person who throws it in the back of the truck.

My shredder is small but does a cross cut into tiny pieces.impossible to read..

Fellowes P400c-2

I've had it for years. Doesn't take up too much space.

Foxy

[goodlizzie]

Sue, I'd not thought of doing that. Might have a bonfire on 5 Nov.

Thanks DulwichFox.

[Sue]

goodlizzie Wrote:

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> Sue, I'd not thought of doing that. Might have a

> bonfire on 5 Nov.

>

Burning is certainly another option, but you might get incompletely burned pieces of confidential information flying around.

I have a personal shredder, but I had far too much to shred like that. It would have taken weeks. OK if you've only got smallish quantities. I shall shred as I go in future! But in these online days, I am accumulating less paper.

A large shredder like you get in workplaces would do it easily, but obviously you'd need access to one!

[DulwichFox]

I have filled 2 of the large Garden Waste paper sacks. It did take a long time.

Now I am on top of things and shred things as I go.

I did have 30 + folders of College notes. and Course note books from 40 years in Telecoms.

All out of date and no longer relevant and not a security problem. 1,000's of sheets,

Took them to the dump and ditched them.

They did not want the Binders and threw them in the general waste. They were branded with Telecom Logos.

Foxy