Embassy's under siege have an immediate need to destroy electronic devices. An electronic shredder is provided. A hand crank as backup. This invention relates to a portable electronic shredder. Further, shredder relates to the shredding of electronic devices to a very small size so as to make the shredded remnants untraceable, wherein the mobiles and laptops, CPUs and monitors can be placed for disposing of, following which the electronic devices are exposed to a pulverizer. The pulverizer crushes and cuts the electronic devices to minute remnants. The portable shredder is lightweight, compact and portable, thus making it easy to transport to an e-waste stacked place.

A foot-operated paper shredder includes a housing, a driving mechanism mounted in the bottom of one side of the housing and including a base, a foot pedal mounted on the base and biasable up and down relative to the base and a composite gear mounted on the base and rotatable by the foot pedal, a spindle mounted on the base and rotatable by the composite gear, and a cutter module mounted in the top side of the housing and including a cutting shaft and a transmission gear fixedly connected to one end of the cutting shaft and drivable by the spindle to rotate the cutting shaft. Thus, the foot-operated paper shredder can be operated by foot, and allows replacement of a different cutter module to meet different shredding needs.