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I'd hazard a guess that this was because regular garbage gets incinerated so if someone doesn't shred something sensitive it gets thrown in with the "yucky" gar

I'd hazard a guess that this was because regular garbage gets incinerated so if someone doesn't shred something sensitive it gets thrown in with the "yucky" garbage and then goes and gets burned instead of being in a bag of nice clean paper.

isleyaardvark 14y ago
Banks have "shreddable" bins for sensitive documents, the shredded bits get recycled.