At the parking lot of the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota, cars drive in a single-file line through orange cones and park by a large truck belonging to A1 Shredding and Recycling Inc.
A group of volunteers wearing tie-dye shirts grab boxes of old paper from the trunks and backseats.
They dump the waste into trash bins. And when they’re full, the truck’s conveyer belt pulls them up to, very loudly, shred it all to pieces.
“I’ve come to multiple shred events. I’m a big shredder,” said Sarasota resident Christine Green. “I only brought maybe six or eight inches of paper, and I’ve taken, over the years, 12 file drawers or more.”…