Paper Shredding Goes Green in San Diego!
Paper Shredding Goes Green in San Diego!
San
Diego, CA – April 17, 2008 – Green Shredding Corporation announced
today the opening of a 100% green shredding warehouse in downtown San
Diego. This unique concept is earth friendly from start to finish.
First, the sensitive documents are collected and securely transported
by specially designed, battery-powered, zero-emissions Electric Box
Trucks. Next they arrive at the high-efficiency, low power consuming
shredding warehouse where all the paper waste is recycled and the
non-recyclable by-product (3-ring binders, binder clips, file boxes,
etc…) is donated to local area schools or offered for reuse to the
general public free of charge.
The
trucks used are not only super eco-friendly, but also parking-friendly,
traffic-friendly, and practical. They can park in normal parking spaces
(instead of parking in the middle of the street or taking up multiple
spaces) and can even fit easily into parking garages. These little
green machines also accelerate and brake quickly and fit through narrow
spaces more so than a normal car, as opposed to the typical delivery
truck that strains to get up to speed, brakes early and often, and
contributes to an over-congested downtown. The practical side is that
the payload capacity per trip is an astonishing 1200 lbs since the
warehouse is less than 1.5 miles from the center of downtown. This
means that these little buggers can transport up to 14,000 lbs in one
shift!
The
shredding warehouse was designed from the ground up to use as little
power as possible. In lieu of a conveyor belt, a platform with a ramp
was built for the industrial strength shredder so a small amount of
muscle and gravity does the work instead of electricity. The shredder
itself uses a much more efficient three-phase motor instead of
employing a single-phase motor. Even the lights, which are rarely
needed because natural light is abundant in San Diego, are all
florescent.
Recycling
is an important part of any paper shredding company’s business plan
because, frankly, they make money from it. Where Green Shredding stands
apart is that they also offer a reuse program to the general public,
and they’ve even teamed up with The Barrio Station to donate all
reusable binders to local area children.
“I
like to say that we are Mother Nature’s Favorite Shredder,” says Chris
Reynolds, owner and operator of San Diego based Green Shredding. For
more information about Green Shredding, call 619.302.4004 or visit http://www.greenshredding.com/.
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