What is plant-based shredding?
Plant-based or “off-site” shredding involves transporting from your facility containers to a central shredding location. Containers are typically transported in locked vans, box trucks, or even tractor trailers depending on the volume. A large plant-based operation might be capable of shredding 5 to 15 tons of material an hour or twice to ten times the capability of an on-site truck. Plant-based shredding is advantageous when you have a very large volume of documents to be destroyed. The most common reasons for plant based / off-site shredding include: cleaning out many years of old files, if you have a large number of employees in a campus setting, or if your business is printing/processing intensive. Plant-based shredding is significantly more efficient than on-site shredding because the equipment is faster and can operate continuously. Because plant-based shredding uses less fossil fuel, it makes less of an environmental impact than on-site shredding. It is not as convenient to witn
