There aren't many companies making cardboard perforators, and while they are really nice, they start at around $2,500. It will help keep your recycling bin from filling up, and you will never have to order shipping supplies. So by reusing it, the cardboard gets one additional life of use before being sent to the recycling plant. I really wanted a machine for my studio to use for shipping my ceramics because cardboard is free, upcycled, and recyclable. I am a potter and discovered perforated cardboard a number of years ago. If your shipment survives, the recipient isn't going to be happy to have to dig through little chips of messy cardboard. The shredded confetti shifts in transit, so what may have started out as an inch of padding, could be two breakable things knocking together on a truck. The benefit of the perforated sheet verses the little confetti chips you would normally get when you put it through a cross cut shredder is that the sheet stays put, its good for wrapping around things, and it isn't messy for the recipient. Instead, it is very flexible and can easily be bent and twisted in any direction. It has most of the benefits of cardboard, but not the rigidity. If you haven't seen it before, it's a sheet of cardboard which has been cut into a waffle like weave, or mesh. This Instructable describes my process for converting a heavy duty cross cut paper shredder into a very capable cardboard perforator for packing and shipping.
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