For many people, recycling has become the norm. Decades of education, increased environmental awareness, and local municipal waste management changes have made it possible for every home and business to help fight our waste problem by recycling. Visit us at http://www.trueshred.com for more information.

1. You Only Recycle HOW Much?
For many people, recycling has become the norm. Decades of education, increased environmental awareness,
and local municipal waste management changes have made it possible for every home and business to help
fight our waste problem by recycling. If you judged only by the number of recycling bins, you’d figure everyone
recycles.
But you’d be wrong.
Although recycling rates have risen substantially over the past 50 years, the total percentage of our waste that is
recycled (as of 2010) is only at 34%. In other words, barely a third of all the waste produced in the United States
ever gets sorted, recycled, and made into something new.
You might think that’s because not all waste is recyclable – and partly, that’s true. There are certain things that
either just cannot be broken down and recycled, or that our current facilities don’t allow us to recycle
efficiently. But let’s look at the recycling rates for something that can be recycled: newspaper.
Newspaper might be just about the easiest thing possible to recycle. Almost anyone who reads one is going to
be near a recycling bin when they finish. Newspaper seldom gets used to mop up spills nor does it get
otherwise soiled to make it hard to recycle. Everyone knows it’s recyclable, and generally it doesn’t even have
to be sorted from other papers. It’s easy.
But recycling rate on newspaper is only 70%.
In fact, paper recycling rates across the board are much lower than they could be – particularly since paper is
both a valuable commodity on the recycling market, and a particularly easy material for the average person to
recycle. Why does paper not get recycled more often?
Part of the reason is office waste. In an office environment, a huge portion of waste is paper – think of all the
reports, notepads, presentations and meeting minutes. But staff often don’t throw paper in the recycling bin
because many documents are confidential.
This creates a problem for companies. On the one hand, no properly run company can risk the liability of
mishandling sensitive documents. On the other, many companies are racing to meet internal or governmentmandated recycling benchmarks, and tossing tons of un-recycled paper is a massive waste.
That’s why TrueShred offers a solution.
With TrueShred, all of our paper shredding mobile vehicles are highly secure, destroying your documents onsite where you can watch via a camera, and then transporting to a secure recycling facility. The paper is then
mixed into recycling vats so that it can meet protect your information and meet your recycling goals, helping to
save the planet in the process.

2. If your business is located in Fairfax, Arlington or anywhere in VA, call TrueShred for your secure document
shredding needs today. Visit us at http://www.trueshred.com for more information.