Systems and methods for secure disposal and removal of printing ribbon

A method of secure card printing ribbon removal comprising:

• receiving ribbon, wherein the ribbon comprises material including sensitive information associated with one or more card printing methods;
• shredding the ribbon to generate ribbon waste;
• transferring the ribbon waste from a shredding unit to a collection unit;
• determining an amount of ribbon waste;
• and
• generating, based on the determined amount of ribbon waste, one or more predictions, the one or more predictions indicative of when to empty the collection unit.

A non-transitory computer-accessible medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions, wherein upon execution by a processor, the instructions cause the processor to perform procedures comprising:

• receiving ribbon;
• shredding the ribbon to generate ribbon waste, wherein the ribbon waste comprises material including sensitive information associated with one or more card printing methods;
• transferring the ribbon waste from a shredding unit to a collection unit;
• determining an amount of ribbon waste;
• and
• applying a predictive model to generate, based on the determined amount of ribbon waste, one or more predictions, the one or more predictions indicative of when to empty the collection unit.