Yes that's what I do - given up with my domestic shredder as it's too slow, so I store the stuff up and feed it into a garden incinerator chunks at a time (too slow doing it sheets at a time) and stand over it with a garden fork to keep turning over the ash/paper mix - it gets hot enough for the paper sheets to spontaneously combust when exposed to air IYSWIM. Doesn't take long.
David
Fire would be great but isnt doable, a lot too much flammable material about.
NT
Paper as a solid block doesn't burn well - as I realised when I had to dispose of a large number of old paperbacks that no charity shop would take, and since my twice weekly waste collection is already full from both recyclables and other waste, quite a while to dispose of through that way.
It was very much more entertaining to pass them through my B&D garden waste shredder before incineration - although much of the book is rendered to dust rather than paper chips...
Once they get around to it. Before then, it'll get lost and every kid in the school will have one of the pages, ready to put the best bits onto facebook.
It needs to be unreadable before it leaves the house.
I think thats what I'll do, coarse chopping it all first. Thank you. Wonder if there's anything I can add to the paste to haste destruction, mould, horribility or something.
NT
Send it to Julian Assange.
Bugger :-)
Before emigrating I had a pile of old orders and invoices several feet high (I should have culled them periodically, I know). A mobile shredding firm sent out their lorry and did the lot for £70 - I actually left them to it, but they would have let me watch had I wanted to.
Nudge nudge, wink wink...
Confetti shredder (small bits instead of strips)
WD-40.
Frankly, everybody needs some thermite.
It burns even quicker if you shred it first. ;-)
I find a ride on lawnmower makes a passable shredder.
Good idea. Won't work on a single sheet, but ideal for a fat block. As is a table saw or a bandsaw.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Tony Bryer saying something like:
What a brilliant wheeze. Charge the customer for a service and when back at the depot, turn the waste material into a fuel.
"Tabby" wrote
Bury it in the compost heap. Then next year it is transformed into soil conditioner. OK, it's not instant destruction by any stretch, but at least it's put to some use.
Phil
BBQ + blow torch + WD40 ?
Owain
Depends what sort of shredder you have. Paper in thin ribbons burns very well but according to a friend of mine a secure shredder that cross cuts the paper into little squares produces scrap that is almost as hard to burn as a solid pile of paper.
When sodium chlorate weedkiller used to be supplied uncontaminated, paper soaked in a solution and dried out would burn /very/ quickly.
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