Patent ID: 7926752

Claim:
A recording medium destruction and discarding system for destroying and discarding a recording medium, comprising: a registration unit that registers an identification information appended to the recording medium associated with an attribute information of the recording medium; a reading unit that reads the identification information appended to the recording medium; a determination unit that determines whether or not the recording medium may be destroyed and discarded based on the attribute information registered in the registration unit associated with the identification information read by the reading unit; and a destruction and discarding processing unit that performs a destruction and discarding process based on the determination result of the determination unit, wherein the attribute information includes a storage period of the recording medium, the registration unit determines the storage period on the basis of a money amount concerning the recording medium and registers the determined storage period as the attribute information of the recording medium, and the determination unit determines whether or not the recording medium may be destroyed and discarded based on the storage period registered by the registration unit.