Shredmaster Bedding
ShredMaster manufactures and supplies a high quality cardboard animal bedding throughout the United Kingdom.
ShredMaster bedding is made out of cardboard, which is an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional animal bedding like wood shavings and straw. It provides a healthier, cleaner environment for all animals, poultry and game and is particularly popular in the equestrian market and also very useful in the agricultural, game and poultry rearing industries. It can also be used as effective environmentally friendly packaging filler, a greener alternative to polystyrene chips.
ShredMaster animal bedding is clean, comfortable, highly absorbent, cost-effective and biodegradable, and also provides a virtually dust-free environment, perfect for animals with allergies or respiratory problems. It can be especially beneficial to horses suffering from COPD. It is produced using specialist shredding machinery that extracts dust before bagging, making this environmentally friendly animal bedding virtually dust-free.

ShredMaster bedding is eco-friendly animal bedding, made from perfectly clean, recycled shredded cardboard and is available for delivery throughout the United Kingdom or for collection from our depot in Lincoln (Lincolnshire) all year round. ShredMaster bedding is owned by ShredMaster Ltd, a secure document shedding company.
With the recent emphasis on the importance of recycling and the tendency to opt for eco-friendly products, developing ShredMaster environmentally friendly cardboard animal bedding was a natural progression from our secure shredding operation.
In summary, ShredMaster bedding offers:
- A year-round supply of cardboard animal bedding
- Competitively priced animal bedding bales
- Nationwide delivery at a minimal cost
- Collection point in Lincolnshire
- 10 years experience in the recycling industry
- A high level of customer service with consistency of supply
ShredMaster bedding is made from corrugated cardboard that is:
- Perfectly clean
- Dust-extracted
- Shredded
- 100% recycled
- Corrugated cardboard means highly efficient absorption and insulation. Liquids drain quickly and are absorbed by the bottom layer leaving the top dry, giving maximum comfort for your animals.
ShredMaster bedding is packed in bales of approx 20kg and supplied in reusable plastic packaging.

ShredMaster animal bedding is available for delivery all year round throughout the United Kingdom and can also be collected from our depot in Lincoln.

How to use ShredMaster bedding
ShredMaster’s environmentally friendly animal bedding is designed to make animal, poultry and game maintenance and mucking out much easier, cleaner and healthier. With ShredMaster bedding you don’t need to perform the strenuous shaking routine that is necessary with traditional animal bedding. Simply open the bale and pour the bedding into the stable, pen or hutch ready for spreading.
Your first ShredMaster bedding animal bed
ShredMaster bedding for the best, most efficient results, we suggest completely clearing any existing bedding and starting anew with a fresh bed of ShredMaster bedding.
Starting a ShredMaster bedding bed
It’s best not to skimp on your first ShredMaster bedding bed: it could be false economy. Remember that a well-stocked initial cardboard animal bed will require less topping up and maintenance in the long term.
How to make your ShredMaster bedding bed
Completely muck out the stable or other living area
Empty ShredMaster bedding onto your surface
Spread the shredded cardboard bedding evenly over the surface
Make a firm bed and bank up the sides for best results
How much ShredMaster bedding to use:
The amount of ShredMaster bedding cardboard animal bedding needed depends on several factors such as:
- The amount of time the living area is occupied
- The stable size
- The depth of bedding required
- The cleanliness of the animal
- How you prefer to keep your animal’s living space
- Removal of soaked bedding
ShredMaster bedding animal bed maintenance:
To ensure a continuously fresh bed of ShredMaster bedding with a minimised risk of contamination by dirt or dust:
- Regularly clean the living area by gently tossing the bedding against the sides then sweeping away any small fragments left behind Turn the bed on a regular basis
- Toss the bedding with a fork to allow air to circulate
- Scrape away the surface bedding to reveal the bottom layer of wet bedding
- Simply remove the wet bedding layer
- Top up the animal bed with more ShredMaster bedding
Benefit 1: Environmentally friendly
- 100% recycled
- Re-usable
- Made from a renewable source
- Easily composted and fully biodegradable: when composting, ShredMaster bedding breaks down more rapidly than traditional bedding and can be used as an effective mulch
Benefit 2: Ideal for allergy suffering animals and labourers
ShredMaster bedding is virtually dust, seed and spore-free
Cardboard animal bedding is recommended by several associations and professional bodies as beneficial to animals prone to allergies, such as Chronic Respiratory Pulmonary Disease or Inflammatory Airway Disease
Benefit 3: Highly absorbent, comfortable, clean, safe and virtually odour-free
Absorbent: ShredMaster bedding provides a cleaner, more comfortable environment for your animals; fluids drain quickly through the absorbent bedding to the floor and are slowly absorbed into the bottom later, leaving the top layer dry and odourless
Warm: Corrugated cardboard effectively traps warm air produced by your animal, creating a comfortably warm animal bed during those cold winter months
Benefit 4: Easy to use
Healthier for the owner: no airborne allergen-causing dust, spores or seeds
ShredMaster bedding does not crumble to dust during handling
Easy skipping & mucking out: ShredMaster bedding effortlessly flows from the bale so no need to waste time and energy on that strenuous shaking routine that is necessary with other animal bedding
Benefit 5: Cost effective
Less wastage: a ShredMaster bedding bed can simply be topped up after removing the wet bottom layer
Less man-hours: quicker skipping and mucking out
Frees up storage space: can be stored outdoors or indoors
Unpalatable to horses so unlikely to be consumed and wasted
ShredMaster bedding's constant, uninterrupted year-round supply means no need for stock piling and no fluctuation in prices
Suitable for several animals including horses, poultry, game, cattle, sheep and pigs
A shortage of traditional wood shavings means prices have increased. Shredded cardboard offers a lower cost alternative to traditional animal bedding materials
ShredMaster bedding and the Environment
ShredMaster cardboard animal bedding offers several environmental benefits over traditional materials used for animal bedding and game and poultry rearing like wood shavings and straw. In favour of the environment, it also makes excellent eco-friendly packaging filler, a greener, safer alternative to polystyrene chips.
ShredMaster bedding’s clean shredded corrugated cardboard provides a healthier, cleaner living and sleeping environment for all animals. It offers several benefits to animals, their owners and, importantly, to the environment.

