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js.b1 wrote:
On Mar 20, 7:48 pm, MM wrote:
Any *decent* shredder, i.e. not the kind one buys in Tesco's, is going
to cost a few bob.


Indeed, but why buy one for what may be just a few hundred CDs?

- Paper can be simply burnt in an old metal can.
- CDs can be fractured in a few minutes. Get a stack, put one on a
piece of plywood, whack a brick bolster with a club hammer twice
radially, place it in bin, get the next one, repeat.

Shredders are sort of like electric bread knifes.


CDS can be utterly destroyed in packs of twenty at a time, inside 10
seconds, in a microwave.

so why bother being arty farty?

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