If you have stuff to shred and don't want to hassle with your home shredder, then you are the Shred Stop's target customer. Our kiosks work equally well for home and small business use.

Have you used your home shredder recently? Using the Shred Stop is much faster, simple to use, and conveniently located. Unlike a home shredder, you don't have to worry about maintenance, oil, or replacing it in a year or two because the motor burned out. Spending a half-hour shredding tax forms from 1997 doesn't get you a larger refund. You may as well get it done in under a minute.

The blade guard on the Shred Stop is clear, so you can actually see the shredder destroy your material.

Paper, compact discs, DVDs, floppy disks, file folders, staples, paperclips, or anything similar that will fit through the 3/16" slot. Please don't shred coins, we don't count them; that's the kiosk over there.

We charge for time of use at $2.00 per minute. Shredding a file-box of material can be done in as little as 5 minutes, and typically ranges from 5 to 8 minutes. It can vary depending on what you are shredding and how material is organized. Shredding that much at home would take at least two hours.

On average, it takes between 5 and 8 minutes to shred a file-box worth of material. However, you control the tempo and the shredder can work as fast as you can. It can actually shred 50 sheets of paper at a time. Unlike your home shredder that says 12 sheets, could at first shred 8, and can now shred 4.

Much like a gas station, the Shred Stop provides a service prior to our customers actually paying. To protect ourselves from fraud we pre-authorize $30 on your credit card to approve it as a payment method. As soon as you finish shredding we charge your card only for the time used, erase your card's information from our files, and release the pre-authorization hold. Some credit card providers take up to five days for any holds to clear their system.

Yes. There is a heavy duty plastic guard that protects you from the blades or any debris; the 3/16" tall slot allows you to shred quickly but fingers won't fit; the blades are more than 6" from the opening; and, there is an oversized Emergency Stop button that will halt the shredder immediately.

Recycling as much waste as possible is an important goal of the Shred Stop, and most shredded plastics are not recyclable. Any significant amount of plastic in the paper may contaminate a large amount of material and make recycling impossible. We thank you, in advance, for making this small effort to support our environmental goals.

This is definitely the most difficult item to shred at our kiosk. You simply will not be able to feed them in crumpled form, so smoothing them out will be necessary. A good strategy to feed many receipts at once is to sandwich the receipts between two sheets of paper as you put the combined stack in the slot. Putting them in an envelope first would also work, as long as it's no more than 3/16" thick. If you find another strategy that works well, write to us about it and we'll pass it on.

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The shredded paper is delivered to a local recycling company where it is baled with mixed paper. Those bales are sold to manufacturing companies that process the paper into new products.

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