When you select a company to assist in your shredding requirements, think about the environment. It is important to consider choosing a business that will accomodate the needs of our Earth, so make sure you ask all of the right questions. Ensure that your chosen shredding service provider will recycle the remnants of your confidential information and documentation correctly.

Here are some interesting recycling facts, to get you and your business inspired to help save our environment:

• Recycling aluminum saves 95% of the energy that would have been used to make new aluminum from virgin material.
• Recycling steel cans saves 74% of the energy that would have been used to make a new can from virgin material.
• Recycling a glass bottle can save enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for 4 hours.
• The United States makes enough shrink wrap each year to shrink wrap the state of Texas.
• Each ton of paper that gets recycled saves about 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space.
• Recycling is saving enough energy to provide electricity for 9 million homes per year.
• By 2005, recycling will reduce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to that emitted by 36 million cars.
• 95% of our nation’s virgin forests have been logged.
• Recycling saves 3.6 times the amount of energy generated by incineration and 11 times the amount generated by methane recovery at landfills.
• Most states have less than 20 years of landfill space left.
• The national recycling rate is 28%. The EPA set a goal of 35%.
• Plastic is virtually indestructible. If the pilgrims had had plastic bottles, those bottles would still be around today.

Help us save our planet, and become environmentally friendly today!