Shredder Talk

The original shredder models cut paper in strips and neatly deposited the strips into a bag or box.

The U.S. State Department eventually learned the shredding could, with enough patience, be reconstructed (in 1979 several hundred Iranian students reassembled thousands of documents during the Iranian hostage crisis).

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have found the reconstruction technique quite useful. An accountant was recently indicted for tax evasion after shredding in his trash was reconstructed.

Someone diving in your practice dumpster could also reconstruct strip shredded documents.

New shredders are double-cut, creating confetti instead of strips. While not impossible, this confetti would be very difficult to reconstruct.

We highly recommend the double-cut shredders.