Patent ID: 7971811

Claim:
A disposal processing apparatus comprising: a disposal processing section that disposes of a recording medium, the disposal processing section comprising a cutter that crushes into pieces or cuts the recording medium utilizing rotation of a motor; an arrival detecting section that detects whether the recording medium has reached the disposal processing section, and includes a current detecting section that detects a current consumption of the motor; a judging section that judges whether the recording medium has been disposed of completely by the disposal processing section based on a detection result of a total current consumption of the motor being above a predetermined threshold value; a particular information acquiring section that acquires particular information being attached to the recording medium; and a communication section that notifies, if the judging section judges that the recording medium has been disposed of by the disposal processing section, information that the recording medium has been disposed of and the particular information, which are correlated with each other, to an information management system that is externally connected to a network, if the judging section judges that the recording medium has not been disposed of by the disposal processing section, information that the recording medium has not been disposed of and the particular information, which are correlated with each other, to an information management system that is externally connected to the network, if the total current consumption is above the predetermined level, to an information management system that is externally connected to a network, wherein the communication section does not notify the information management system if the total current consumption is below the predetermined level.