The demand for silver nowadays is increasingly high. This demand has encourage business to tap potential source of silver which is the x-ray film. Silver recovery from x-ray film is one of the ventures entered into by shredding companies. Shredding companies have strategized their Xray film recycling process. This is by responding into the fear of many clients or depositors of spreading their confidential information found in this scrap. Wherefore, shredding companies assured depositors of x-ray films of the safety and confidentiality   of their information. In effect, depositors of used x-ray film will gain the confidence in disposing their garbage of films into the designated xray film recycling depots of the shredding companies.

Local Shredding companies ensured their x-ray film recycling to be effective by reaching out to places of depositors. They have mobile x-ray film recycling depots for the convenience of depositors. Besides the fact of their being fair to depositors, while they can collect high-priced silver on these scrap, they also payback the deposited used x-ray film. It is up for the company to assign prices or values to let us say a thousand kilogram of used x-ray films. Notes, paper jackets of x-ray films are included in their collection. Paper jackets are then recycled into a different commodity in demand in the market.

Shredding companies believe the fact that as  proven by time  silver from x-ray  film can be done in varied ways. Long before, silver recovery from x-ray film  was destructive because it is by way of burning the plastic. Once the film turned into ash, it is then the time when silver was collected from ashes  Practically, the burning process can worsened the global warming conditions of the universe. So, Local shredding companies adopted an environment-friendly method, silver from x-ray film by the washing which uses the aid of cyanide  . In washing method, silver collection  is done by separating the paper jacket and washing the x-ray film with cyanide. This means the film is washed by cyanide because cyanide is the agent in removing the silver coating from the x-ray film. As the process continues, the silver stayed in the cyanide and so collection is done.

Silver contained in x-ray film is of higher purity value compared to the commercial ones we used to buy in department stores . Imagine the fact that silver in x-ray film is 99.9% pure compared to 92.5% only. So, shredding companies may reuse the silver itself and make money out of this or the silver may be reuse   in other applications and sold back to the market in jewelry items or other fashionable silver accessories.