Shredding Services

How It Works

At your request, CU Recycling crews will collect your sensitive documents and take them to our on-campus facility for shredding and recycling with a guarantee of confidentiality. A certificate of confidential destruction can be provided.

Our service is available for $4.00 per standard-size paper box or $20.00 per 90-gallon cart. Boxes should be sealed with tape and labeled "confidential". A limited number of lockable carts are available upon request from CU Recycling for storage of confidential materials in your department. Call us at 492-8307 for more information.

Because of limited space in our destruction area, CU Recycling cannot accommodate requests for pick-ups of more than 10 boxes, or two carts, per customer per month. Departments who generate larger quantities of confidential materials are encouraged to contact Tri-R Recycling for State of Colorado contract priced confidential record destruction. Call Joyce Bartell at (303)336-0130 for details.

Pick-Up Schedule

Documents will be collected on the next regularly scheduled recycling pick-up from your building, typically within the week. For your next scheduled pick-up day, see Collection Days by Building.

Recycling Guidelines

It’s our desire to recycle your documents as the highest paper grade possible. To ensure their recyclability, please see our Office Pak recycling guidelines before boxing up your confidentials. When possible, rather than mixing with white and light colored paper, please remove the following items and place in a separate container: goldenrod papers, dark or bright colored papers, dark colored file folders, hanging file folders, blueprints, transparencies, computer diskettes. While these items can still be destroyed, we prefer to keep them separate from higher quality light-colored papers. Please remove rubberbands and bags. Staples and paperclips are okay.

Request Form

To request pick-up and destruction of your confidentials, fill out the following request form. Your request will be forwarded to CU Recycling for pick-up the next day recyclables are collected from your building.

Shredding Form

For more information, call CU Recycling at 303-492-8307