Posted Thursday, April 07, 2011 in
Credit-Mortgages-Finances
Your BBB is offering FREE shredding and
recycling
at the annual 2011 Spring Shred Day this month.
From 9am – 1pm, BBB will be at the following locations collecting up to 5 boxes
of paper documents, compact disks, floppy disks and old cell phones for
shredding and recycling.
Austin:
Sat., April 16th at Dell’s Round Rock Campus (Building 8;
2401 Greenlawn Blvd.)
Corpus
Christi:
Sat., April 16th at the KIII-TV studios (5002 S. Padre
Island Dr.)
San
Antonio:
Sat.,
April 30th at the Wonderland of Americas Mall (4522 Fredericksburg Rd.)
Why
Shred?
1) According to the Consumer
Sentinel Network, over 24,000 Texans became victims of identity theft in 2010.
2) The most common forms of identity
theft occur through forging driver’s licenses and personal government
documents. To help take away the access to these materials, you should dispose
of sensitive documents that contain this information.
Why
Recycle?
1) According to Privacy Rights
Clearinghouse, nearly 7 million personal records were compromised from lost or
stolen portable devices like cell phones and PDAs last year.
2) Only 63% of all paper consumed in
the United States is recovered for recycling according to the Paper Industry
Association Council.
No
RSVP required. We can’t wait to see YOU there!