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Paper shredders are used to tear paper into tiny little unrecognizable bits. They are used in all workplaces and businesses in order to insure their undisclosed documents when they are not useful any more but still have security concerns. Personal checks, medical records, bank statements, all sorts of receipts can be shred using a shredder. There are a range of shredders you will find based on the criticality of the document you wish to shred.

A paper shredder consists of a pair of blades between which you need to insert the paper to be shredded. The force of the blades causes the document to tear into numerous small pieces. These shred pieces are passed to containers that come along with most of the expensive shredders. Many shredders also come have a plastic bag instead.

There are different blades in paper shredders depending on the volume and security of the office-stationary involved, like ultra security cut, strips cut and cross-cut.

Strip cut is used to cut into thin long strips when you have large volumes of paper. They are comparatively less expensive than others. On the other hand, cross-cut shredders work more finely, shredding each document into very fine criss-cross pieces. However they are a tad slower than the former one.

There are commercial shredders called guillotines that can shred large volumes of paper, CD, DVD’s as well.