How to manage controlled burning of paper either inside or in a backyard where fires may or may not be legal. I am not endorsing or personally considering these actions in any inappropriate setting.
How to manage controlled burning of paper either inside or in a backyard where fires may or may not be legal. I am not endorsing or personally considering these actions in any inappropriate setting.
You want, ideally a crosscut shredder. Burning even moderate amounts of paper indoors is probably too much of a fire or smoke inhalation risk, unless you already have a fireplace you can use.
Mix the sensitive documents with pages from unrelated useless documents (could be scratch paper notes, old letters or homework, junk mail, paper advertisements or pages from catalogs or even a phonebook) and shred all that stuff together.
After shredding, seperate the shredded paper into bags so that no one “document” is likely to be able to be reassembled from one bag. Throw the bags away in separate places and/or on separate days. Drop them in different dumpsters behind businesses or different trashcans in the park. Alternatively if you can store the shredded paper in bags at a secure location, you can save it up and then take it on a camping trip and burn it in your campfire.
If your threat model is so severe that these methods aren’t secure enough, consider instead avoiding writing or printing the information in the first place.