Cintas Document Management Saves More Than 1.6 Million Trees in 2010

In honor of America Recycles Day, Cintas Corporation today announced it has saved more than 1.6 million trees, through October of this year, by recycling confidential documents through its secure document shredding services. In addition to trees, Cintas has saved more than 196,000 barrels of oil, 688 million gallons of water, 294,000 cubic yards of landfill space and 393 million kilowatts of energy.

“Recycling paper saves water, reduces green house gas emissions and uses approximately 25 percent less energy than manufacturing paper from trees,” said Pamela Coleman, Director of Supplier Diversity & Corporate Sustainability, Cintas. “Shredding documents is critical to securely protecting confidential personal and business information, but it’s also a great way to help protect the earth’s natural resources.”

Cintas prides itself on its environmentally-conscious approach to protecting confidential information by shredding paper thoroughly and recycling the waste. First, the paper is collected by Cintas and destroyed through its secure SmartShred process. This process can take place on Cintas’ mobile shredding trucks or at any of its nationwide locations. The shredded paper is then delivered to a paper mill to be recycled. At the mill, the paper is sorted to remove contaminants such as paper clips, plastic and other materials that can’t be recycled. It is then turned into a pulp and manufactured into secondary paper products.

“Recycling documents into consumer products such as paper cups, paper towels and tissue helps protect our natural environment,” said Jennifer Rankin, Historic Tree Program Director, AMERICAN FORESTS. “We are proud to join the nationwide celebration of America Recycles Day with Cintas to generate awareness regarding the enormous environmental impact that businesses and consumers can make simply by recycling confidential documents.”

Cintas is the first North American AAA NAID-certified and PCI DSS compliant document management provider. It provides cost-effective document shredding, storage and imaging programs. Cintas’ services provide businesses with data privacy and security, compliance with regulatory requirements and greater control and access to information. By partnering with companies that share the same goals in protecting the earth and their communities, Cintas is able to offer its secure document shredding services to community members nationwide.

For more information on Cintas’ document management programs, please visit www.cintas.com/documentmanagement.

About Cintas Corporation:

Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cintas Corporation provides highly specialized services to businesses of all types. Cintas designs, manufactures and implements corporate identity uniform programs, and provides entrance mats, restroom supplies, promotional products, first aid and safety products, fire protection services and document management services to approximately 800,000 businesses. Cintas is a publicly held company traded over the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol CTAS, and is a Nasdaq-100 company and component of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

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