Destroying VHS tapes

[Raekwon]

Good Day,

I'm looking for the best, cheapest, and most ethical way to destroy VHS tapes, I have about 15 boxes of VHS tapes of homemade pornography that I would like to destroy and guarantee is never seen again. Does anyone know of a cheap confidential service in Calgary or an easy method that one can do on their own?

Here is an example of why I need the tapes destroyed.

Spoiler!

Did you really click this you sick bastard. Its actually for work boxes of private surveillance tapes

[REDVAN]

Originally Posted by Raekwon

Good Day,

I'm looking for the best, cheapest, and most ethical way to destroy VHS tapes, I have about 15 boxes of VHS tapes of homemade pornography that I would like to destroy and guarantee is never seen again. Does anyone know of a cheap confidential service in Calgary or an easy method that one can do on their own?

Here is an example of why I need the tapes destroyed.

Spoiler!

Did you really click this you sick bastard. Its actually for work boxes of private surveillance tapes

A++ would read again. Sorry but why can't you just burn them?

[Raekwon]

Originally Posted by REDVAN

A++ would read again. Sorry but why can't you just burn them?

Burning is bad for the environment? Not sure if that is a thing but also do not want to transport off site and risk losing tapes etc.

[sureLoss]

[Fuzz]

See what Iron Mountain charges:
http://www.ironmountain.com/Services...struction.aspx

[Raekwon]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

See what Iron Mountain charges:
http://www.ironmountain.com/Services...struction.aspx

The going rate has been per item. We have a contract with ERA and they wanted $5 per item -50% for the contract which is still costly. We are cheap and have been getting our mailroom to manually destroy them as they come back to us from storage at Iron Mountain. I just got thrown on this yesterday so Iron Mountain was looked at and deemed to costly.

[stang]

Bad word.

[Fuzz]

Given the heat we are going to get today, maybe they would just melt if you left them out in the parking lot.

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by Raekwon

Good Day,

I'm looking for the best, cheapest, and most ethical way to destroy VHS tapes, I have about 15 boxes of VHS tapes of homemade pornography that I would like to destroy and guarantee is never seen again. Does anyone know of a cheap confidential service in Calgary or an easy method that one can do on their own?

Here is an example of why I need the tapes destroyed.

Spoiler!

Did you really click this you sick bastard. Its actually for work boxes of private surveillance tapes

Saw thread title, clicked on thread to make porn joke. Joke already made in OP, left feeling disappointed.

[Oil Stain]

Just break them by hand?

[Wormius]

Maybe unreel the tapes, and melt/burn that portion. The plastic could then probably be sent to recycling.

[DoubleF]

Dismantle tapes (use an electric drill for the screws)
Magnets on the magnetic tape
Cut or use shredder on magnetic tape
Recycle plastic


I did something similar with a pile of floppy disks a few months ago.

EDIT:

[jammies]

"Surveillance" eh? Mmm hmm. Are you, perchance, somehow connected with Chicken on the Way?

[Galakanokis]

Burn them, that's we did in the past especially if you want to be 100% certain. We would pull out the reels and recycle the plastic but any tape of film was always burned.