Shredded paper cannot go into the recycling bin, as it can tangle in the sorting machinery. Rather than shredding documents, we suggest to tear into quarters and place into the recycling bin. Sensitive information such as names, addresses and numbers can be torn off documents to deidentify them and placed into the Rubbish bin, leaving the rest to be recycled
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