Secure Eco Shred Helps Out with World Series Parade

Secure Eco Shred’s Chicago office supplied confetti made out of newspapers for the ticker-tape parade Oct. 28 to honor the Chicago White Sox after the team’s World Series win.

“Christopher Suave, program director for Chicago’s Bureau of Recycling, called our Chicago office the morning before the parade after contacting many other vendors without luck,” Secure Eco Shred President Steve Kalapos says.

Suave remembered the company from a recent community shred day, according to Kalapos. While the Chicago Sun Times offered to donate overruns of its newspapers for the parade, Suave told Kalapos that he could not find a vendor to perform the shredding on short notice.

“We quickly adjusted our schedule to commit to spending hours of shredding newspapers for the parade,” Kalapos says. “We feel strongly about giving back to the community—what better way than helping the White Sox celebrate their championship?”

The Chicago Sun Times donated nearly 20,000 pounds of newspapers, of which Secure Eco Shred’s mobile shredding truck processed roughly 3,000 pounds per hour. After the parade, city workers collected the confetti and took it back to the city’s recycling center for processing.