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The hook up

Posted By: sandy
Date: Friday, 28 January 2005, at 8:53 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Another Idea regarding recycling (Michael Ross)

If you can find some companies that need "shredded paper" for packing, or a school which needs the shreds for a project and somehow hook up the person needing shredding with them, this could be one way to generate an ongoing business.

Sandi,

> Thanks for bringing up shredding.

> We wrote about this in the April 23, 2003
> issue of The Great Ideas Letter. And came up
> with the idea for the same reason... there
> was no real way for private citizens to
> maintain their privacy and dispose of
> documents.

> We know one business that shreds everything
> and then uses those shreds in their
> business. They make caskets. And the
> shredded paper becomes the liner stuffing
> that makes the lining look puffy. Not all
> the lining is made from their shreddings.
> They still buy stuffing in. BUt it is a way
> for them to dispose of something in a secure
> way :o)

> I think a monthly route could do well. As
> long as it is priced well. Or, as you said,
> shredding a year's worth of stuff in one go.

> Michael Ross

Messages In This Thread

Another Idea regarding recycling
sandy -- Thursday, 27 January 2005, at 11:17 p.m.
Re: Another Idea regarding recycling
Michael Ross -- Friday, 28 January 2005, at 2:23 p.m.
The hook up
sandy -- Friday, 28 January 2005, at 8:53 p.m.

 

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