I'm having a clear out and have about ten year's worth of various statements to get rid of, a 4" stack. My cheap shredder can just about manage three sheets. I mean, how hard can it be?
So what's good and cheap? No, I can't burn them.
Cheers
Why don't you....
Ah... As you were then.
Seems a shame to buy a shredder just for one session. Do you own a pasta maker with a spaghetti or tagliatelle attachment? One bored afternoon I tried shredding paper with mine and it worked quite well.
I also own a puny one-sheet shredder and because of its very close spaced cutters I used it to try and make Angel-hair spaghetti. Word to the wise: don't try this.
Nick
I'm waiting for delivery of a Rexel shredder with a 130 sheet feeder.
Are you anywhere near Darwen, East Lancs?
ride on lawnmower?
Knock up one of these?
Or this:
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Oh wow. That must have been a sticky mess.
Very innovative though!
Your time?
You give no clue to the average thickness of the paper but lets take as an assumption you have 1,000 sheets and that it takes your shredder 30 seconds to chomp 2 sheets. Then dealing with the lot will take 15,000 seconds. Add on time to empty the shredder bin and call it 5 hours. A small shredder shouldn't be deafening so you can do that while listening to anything you like - audiobook, radio play, heavy metal, etc etc. And spread it out across several days or weeks unless you really need to shift it fast.
Small shredders often have a low duty cycle, 5-10 minutes out of 30, so
15-30 hours ...
I have the 80 sheet version, which is ****ing useless. It is so picky about the paper that it's more or less useless. It would be great for plain paper printouts, but anything folded defeats it. Anything glossy, likewise.
If you feed the pages in manually, it's quite good at chomping through them slowly.
It's hard because paper is engineered to be durable.
Fellowes P48-C will do 6-8 sheets, just. Several seconds to do that. A four inch stack of 80 gm/m^2 is about 1000 sheets. I just wouldn't try to put that much through mine. If I have half an inch or more I just put them in the bottom of the woodburner and light a conventional fire on top of them.
Do you know anyone who works somewhere "interesting"? Military spec ones will eat 6mm at a time, and cross-cut it into about 4x1 shreds without drawing breath.
There's a problem with home & small office shredders. While they can do a few sheets (not the number they claim to, unless those sheets are value bogroll), they don't survive long if you do that. Best to stick to 1 sheet for many, 2 sheets for the better ones if you want them to last a useful amount of time.
One more option is to pulp them. Add to bucket of water, take a paint mixing thing in a drill and attack. You'll soon find the drill is too high speed & can't handle running for long, but even a nonideal setup like this can reduce the stuff to pulp way quicker than an office shredder. BUT... you're left with a big pile of wet pulp. It can be spread out thinly on soil or pressed into insulation blocks. If just dumped in a heap it takes years to rot.
NT
oh, ffs put them out for recycling.
Good point. Perhaps then put shredder in loo and do the job as and when there's an opportunity. Paper could be kept tidily to hand in the once traditional way.
But not if shredded. At least, not round here. It clogs the sorting machines, apparently. <== Interesting fact? :)
There's normally quite a limited duty cycle on these things, so a lot longer.
Mine is a 10 sheet Fellowes one that cost me about £35. I did a six inch stack recently but it took a few days.
I've been putting mine in a clear poly bag tied shut (so that it does not get everywhere) and they have been taking it. I guess there should be somewhere they can put it after sorting?
I thought it was because shredded paper had fibres that were too short for recycling into new paper.
May depend one whether you have kerbside separation or mechanised sorting.
Owain
We are told to put shredded paper in our mixed recycling sacks that Bywaters process at Bow.
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