Disposing of confidential waste

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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.

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.

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

Shredder. They're dead cheap.

We shred everything .

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

Shredder here too.

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

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

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.

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)

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......

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.

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

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.

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.

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