SEPTEMBER 24, 2007, SHIRLEY, NEW YORK – Brookhaven Town Supervisor Brian X. Foley has announced that Brookhaven Town residents can clean out attic rooms full of old letters, medical forms, and financial records and bring them to the Town’s Materials Recycling Facility on October 13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. where they can watch them being fed into a large shredder and baled for recycling.

   The massive mobile shredder, provided through Hudson-Baylor, the company that manages the recycling facility for the Town, can shred large volumes of records in minimal time while preserving security.

   “Bringing this shredder to the recycling facility gives town residents an opportunity to safely dispose of records that might contain important personal information,” said Supervisor Foley. “In an era when identity theft has become a serious problem, we wanted to give residents this opportunity to safely dispose of records.”

   Many residents use small deskside shredders in their homes before recycling personal papers. The October shredding event will enable residents who want to discard a large volume of stored documents to shred these records en masse.

   Documents brought to the Shredding Event will be dumped into a 65-gallon container and then into the shredder, enabling each resident to witness the secure destruction of their personal papers.

   Paper can be brought in boxes or bags. Documents can remain stapled together, but paper clips and other metal must be removed along with any other contaminants such as rubber bands, etc.
  
   The October Shredding Event is limited to residential paper only. There is no charge.

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