On Saturday, May 9, Lower Saucon Township will host a free two-hour paper shredding event for residents who want to securely dispose of sensitive personal information.
On Wednesday night, township council approved a motion to open the shred event–at which approved township paperwork will also be disposed of–to the public.
Township residents are invited to bring up to three standard-size file boxes or tall kitchen trash bags full of paper of any color or type. Stapled or paper-clipped papers are OK, but residents should not bring three-ring binders, magazines, phonebooks, newspapers or accordion folders to shred.
The on-site shredding will take place at Lower Saucon Town Hall, 3700 Old Philadelphia Pike, Bethlehem, from 10 a.m. to noon, and will be conducted by Titan Mobile Shredding, a company that specializes in document shredding.
Assistant township manager Leslie Huhn told council that Titan is a reputable company that conducts background checks on all its employees.
She added that while this will be the first time a township shredding event has been opened to the public, other nearby municipalities such as Williams Township have held public shredding events for residents.
The Lower Saucon Township Police Department announced Thursday that an officer will be on hand during the shredding event to answer any questions residents may have.
According to a flyer about the event distributed by the department, in 2014, 12.6 million Americans were victims of identity theft.
Proper disposal of sensitive information is one way to help prevent identity theft, and document shredding is a recommended tool for disposal of sensitive paperwork.
