BBB Shred Day offers
FREE on-the-spot document shredding and the distribution of advice for
protecting your identity from ID thieves. Consumers and businesses can bring boxes or bags of documents to be shredded and take home the tips and resources they need to help protect themselves.
The last BBB Shred Day helped consumers and businesses shred 125,000 pounds (over 62 tons) of financial records, business forms and other sensitive documents. 1,823 cars visited BBB events in Round Rock, San Antonio, and Corpus Christi. Dell, Air Force Federal Credit Union, KVUE-TV, KIII-TV and WOAI-TV served as local sponsors for the event.
To put into perspective the impact consumers and small businesses had on their local communities, the amount of paper shredded and recycled saved the following:
1,062 trees
125 barrels of oil
437,500 gallons of water (enough for 292 homes for 1 month)
256,250 kilowatt hours of electricity (enough to power 274 homes for 1 month)
The next BBB Shred Day will take place in spring 2010. Bookmark this page to keep up-to-date on how you can prevent identity theft by protecting your personal information.
If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please contact Amanda Buck at 512.206.2812 or abuck@austin.bbb.org.
Please check back for more details as we get closer to the event!
