·If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.
·The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!
·The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
·Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
·Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person.
·The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.
The Shred Center has been providing products and services relating to secure document shredding and destruction for local clients in need of that service since 2003.
Operating as a Confidential Plant Based Shredding facility with computerized security cameras and alarm system for shredding, baling and recycling of confidential documents.
Our facility features:
- Safe and secure environment for confidential shredding of sensitive documents
- State of the art shredder and baler that provides our clients the confidence that their
document information is being destroyed to a point which it can never be identified
- State of the art security system which allows us to monitor all handling of documents on
camera. This will insure that information is being handled securely
- Recycles shredded material to be used to make new paper products, saving the environment.
*We are a proud member of The National Association for Information Destruction (NAID)
**Why use a NAID member?
-The National Association for Information Destruction estimates that there are as many as 2,000 companies in the United States providing information destruction services. However, not every shredding service takes security as seriously as they should. NAID and NAID Members are the trusted resource for information destruction of hundreds of thousands of organizations.