A shredder is a piece of heavy duty equipment designed to shred dense and light materials to prepare them for recycling or the destruction of useless materials.
There is a type of shredder designed for any type of material from ones that shred paper and cardboard to large industrial shredders that can shred mattresses and sheet metal.
There is no limitation to the types of materials that can be shredded, which includes computers, disk drives, cars, aluminum cans, and outdated and unusable equipment.
Shredders designed for industrial use are more complex and have to be engineered specifically for the material that they will disassemble.
As environmental concerns continue to grow and have greater focus, more and more industries are seeing the benefits of using shredders as a method of taking useless and out of date materials and converting them to raw materials for remanufacturing.