Shredding or Recycling? With Legal Shred, You Get Both
Shredding or Recycling? With Legal Shred, You Get Both
While paper is a necessity across nearly every industry, it has become quite the enemy because of its overabundance. Paper is just a given; healthcare and legal firms, to name a few, require paper documentation for a myriad of reasons, but that doesn’t mean it needs to be kept indefinitely. When it’s time to get rid of paper waste, is it better to recycle or to shred? With Legal Shred, it’s not a question of choosing, as these options are not mutually exclusive. Relying on a contracted shredding company means you can both shred and recycle, and that not only does a lot for your office space, but it helps the environment as well.
Consider the facts: the average American creates about 4.43 pounds of trash per day, and some 30 percent of that is paper. Those numbers are rather significant. If you’re going for a smaller carbon footprint, then eliminating how much paper you throw in the trash is one small step toward doing so.
How exactly is shredding good for the environment?
It Reduces Forest Destruction
Countless trees are cut down for their resources, namely paper. Of course, the environment needs trees for oxygen, shade, and improving air quality. When you shred and recycle your paper, you’re reducing the need to cut down forests, which in turn, is a plus for the environment.
It Helps the Environment in Economical Ways
Producing paper is expensive, as it involves labor costs, fuel costs, transportation costs, and more. Shredding and recycling paper means reducing the damage that paper production causes, thus reducing costs at a big benefit to the environment.
Your Documents are Recycled, Making Sure Your Documents Are Never Used Again
Legal Shred Inc. securely transports your shredded documents to the recycling plant where it is pulped and recycled into tissue paper.
Beyond the environmental benefits that come with document destruction, there are a host of secure benefits as well. Any individual or business will have physical documents that need to be saved instead of being put on a computer’s hard drive, but when it’s time to get rid of these documents, the last place you’ll want to put them is in the trash.
Businesses open themselves up to a host of security risks by placing sensitive information in a garbage disposal. Wrong-doers can steal your corporate identity, your intellectual property, and so much more. Why take the risk when there are services that can not only help you protect yourself, but the environment as well?
We don’t always see the environmental benefits of basic recycling that come with proper paper shredding. But, in the long term, it cuts down on pollution, ensures we have more trees to continue the cycle of oxygen without doing any accidental damage to the planet we live on.
Legal Shred securely transports your shredded documents to recycling plant, which then uses the shredded material in other ways.
Protect yourself and the environment and call for a quote today.