Earlier this year, The Grossman Group Inc.,
Through the first quarter of this year, Book-Destruction.com destroyed and recycled more than one hundred trailer loads, or nearly 4.2 million pounds, of hardback and paperback books, catalogs with or without spirals, directories and corporate reports in bound form.
“We are capable of grinding these products without separating them into multiple categories of paper with or without non-paper contamination, such as spirals, plastic inserts, CDs and bindings,” The Grossman Group President Steve Grossman says. “Our operations are totally mechanical, eliminating the element of human temptation of converting these items for re-sale, something the generators are desperately trying to be assured will not happen.”
“Our grinding, destruction and recycling facilities for these products are ultra secure, assuring the generators that their products are actually being recycled and not returned to the market place for resale on Web sites,” Grossman adds.
Most of the books come from the obsolete inventories of book printers, publishers, distributors, libraries, schools and multiple collection sites primarily throughout the
Once recycled, the materials are baled and shipped to paper mills, roofers or insulators to be converted into new products.
The Grossman Group is a broker and service provider to the recycling and hauling industry.
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