Did you know that most recycling centers, like the one that serves Richardson, do not accept home-shredded paper? This is because the tiny fragments can clog machinery and are hard, if not impossible, to separate by hand from other recyclables.
If you have your own paper shredder, be sure to place the shredded remains in trash bags and not with recyclables, as they will “contaminate” a recycling bag so that nothing in the bag gets recycled. Home-shredded paper that’s plain, non-glossy, and free of a lot of ink may also be used as a “brown” part of composting.
Note that community shredding events usually involve a shredding company that bales the shreds before they’re sent to a recycling facility, which accepts the bales as they arrive ready for sale, to be made into other products.
Website: www.cor.net/recycling
