Waste Not Shredder Bag

Abstract

A bag that is made out of paper, recycled paper or paper-based material is designed in appropriate sizes and shapes to fit a variety of paper shredder machines in order to efficiently collect the paper shreddings which are output from such a machine so that the container and its contents can be directly placed into the paper-recycling stream without additional time and labor spent separating the paper contents from what currently is typically a plastic bag or rigid container. The preferred embodiment is designed with peel and stick adhesives on the top flaps to close the top with a double layer of flaps, to better secure the contents against spillage and theft, and integrated handles provide for more convenient transfer of the container and contents from the paper shredder machine, ideally to a paper-recycling destination.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001]Not applicableSTATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT [0002]Not ApplicableNAMES TO A PARTY TO A JOINT RESEARCH AGREEMENT[0003]Not ApplicableREFERENCE TO SEQUENCE LISTING A TABLE OR A COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTING COMPACT DISC APPENDIX [0004]Not ApplicableBACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0005]Paper shredders have become an important piece of equipment found in both in commercial offices and increasingly in private homes. Not only does the use of paper shredders reduce the risk of theft of information, but they also enable the efficient removal of old unneeded records, letters, envelopes, etc.[0006]The Waste Not Shredder Bag is a bag constructed from paper, Class 383, designed to capture and contain the shredded paper output from home, municipal, and commercial paper shredder machines. The bag will have overlapping flaps and peel-and-stick adhesive strips to encapsulate the contents securely when the bag is closed. Thus, The ...

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Benefits of technology

[0013]Further, one or both of the front and rear flaps will have an L crease creating a proximal and distal area where the overlapping proximal portions provide the top layer of the double-layered closure. In the case of only one flap having distal and proximal areas, the distal area will contain an orifice that acts as a handle for the closed receptacle. In the case in which both flaps have a proximal and distal area, these will be designed to align adjacent to each other when said d

Problems solved by technology

Plastic bags used to collect the paper output from shedders render the entire package nonrecyclable due to the mixture of plastic and paper or require use of otherwise more productive time to separate the paper from the plastic.

These plastic bags are often common kitchen trash bags, often oversized and wasteful of the excess plastic material used.

Rigid plastic containers also require time and e

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