Disposing of confidential waste

[GooseFriend]

How do you dispose of confidential household waste? Like card receipts and letters?

We uses to have a shredder but it's just bitten the dust. It was also temperamental and created a lot of dust. I might buy a new one but wondered if there were other ways.

[Bookishandblondish]

It depends on how much you have. I have quite a lot - both personal and work related
I recently bagged it all and paid for a shredding company to pick it up and shred - but did have six bags worth.

Now I'm thinking I will save it up and do the same. Shredding just piles up as I loathe it.

[Blackberryandapplejam]

We have a log fire. It gets burnt on there on a weekly basis.

[Cakescakescakes]

Shredder. They're dead cheap.

[Floralnomad]

We shred everything .

[GooseFriend]

I don't think I generate enough for a company - shame. New shredder it is then

[AdoraBell]

Shredder here too.

[Davros]

I've got a massive bag of shredding to do. The problem is it doesn't get done and it's now my sword of Damocles. Maybe I should try paying DD to do it but I'd probably still get lumbered

[Improvisingnow]

I save it up and who I have a bin bag full burn it in an incinerater in the garden.

[MovingOnUpMovingOnOut]

Shred and compost.

Card receipts go in the recycling bin since they stopped printing the full number.

Anything that's just generic marking goes straight in the recycling too.

[ChunkyHare]

We shred as we get stuff. I have a magazine file which the post gets sorted into for filing or shredding so once a week I shred. That way you are not sitting in front of a shredder for 3 hours and possibly burning out the motor (been there)

[silverfingersandtoes]

But once you've bitten the bullet and done all the shredding, what do you do with all the shreds? Into the paper recycling, yes - but what do you put it in to put it in the recycling? Can't use a bin liner......

[MovingOnUpMovingOnOut]

You put it in the compost bin.

Our council don't want shredded paper in the recycling, they want it in our green bins which are food and garden waste.

[MovingOnUpMovingOnOut]

If it must go in the paper recycling then how about a paper bag?

[silverfingersandtoes]

Ah, that's useful thanks Moving - I hadn't realised that. I'll check it out with our local Council. However, the compost recycling box is even smaller than the paper one and these shreds take up a surprising amount of space.

[Heratnumber7]

I put confidential waste in the compost bin. Don't worry about shredding it as its pretty useless after a few teabags and potato peelings have covered it.
Sometimes I put it in the confidential waste bin at work.

[LemonRedwood]

Blank out personal details with a camouflage roller stamp then recycle.