The Recycling Bank of Gwinnett

Great to have a place that takes almost anything. Opened 24/​7, document shredding 2 days a week. End of the weekend it was a bit messy

This location has added «secure» document shredding for your personal paperwork. It is certainly an advantage that they are offering that service but here are a few tips to help you get through the Shredding Experience with a little less pain…
First of all, the hours are limited for shredding… it is only Monday_​Friday from 9 am to noon and then from 1 pm to 3 pm … that’s it… sort of limited.
Now when you arrive, the shredder is kept in the odd little building on the north side of the parking lot… I expected the doors to be locked as I approached the building, but there is a sign (printed out of ‘Word’) posted on the doors telling you to call the phone number listed on the sign for shredding. (What if you dont have a cell phone with you at the time???)
Luckily, I had a phone and called the number AND IT WAS BUSY??? What number for a local government service (or anywhere aside from Dominos or chinese take out) rings busy these days (?!)… so it was busy, and it was busy … I finally tried the door and it was open.
I went in to the building and it is a fairly industrial setting with tons of cardboard recycling strewn around. A makeshift office is to the immediate right with no one sitting in it. The shredder is right in front of you… to the right, there was a woman (employee?) who did a stellar job of ignoring me as she «helped» a guy to empty a dump truck of cardboard as I continue to try the all-​important busy phone number…
I waited…
and waited …
and waited… all the time calling the cosmic phone number…
Finally, an older guy in a hard hat walks in from the far north part of building…
«Can I help you?»
Yes, I just want to get this shopping bag of paper work shredded…
«Did you call the number?»
Yup, several times, it just rings busy …
(At this point, the spacey woman acknowledges what is going and asks the guy if he wants her to do it… he waves her off…)
So, he stoically cranks up the shredder and then … has to go through e-​v-​e-​r-​y sheet of paper as he feeds it into this huge shredder individually… he was looking for paper clips, binder clips and would pull those out and throw them into a garbage bin nearby…
So there’s a tip … make sure you don’t have any clips of any kind because it will take an extra amount of forever to get your stuff shredded…
It does sort of strike me as odd that a machine as large as this industrial shredder can’t handle the occasional paper clip… can certainly understand binder clips, but there you have it…
* limited hours, no weekends
* remove your own paper clips or face the wrath
* kind of hassle for (what should be) a helpful service