Shred Day

The City of Sylvania, in an effort to increase awareness about safeguarding personal documents from identity theft, has partnered with AccuShred to promote the destruction and proper disposal of personal information. 

As a result, AccuShred will offer on-site destruction of up to 50 pounds of personal documents, or approximately two banker’s boxes, free of charge.  Additional boxes or bags of documents will be destroyed for a fee of $3.00 per container.  Residents are asked to bring boxed or bagged documents to the collection site, located at the Sylvania Court House building, 6700 Monroe Street, Sylvania Ohio between the hours of 9AM and 1PM on Saturday April 19, 2008 from 9am to 1pm.  Residents will be able to unload their material into a large bin. .  The contents of the bin will be dumped into the shredder and shredded on site.  Residents may stay in their vehicles and watch their material be shredded if they wish.    

The goal of this project is to show Sylvania area residents one way of protecting themselves from identity theft while diverting a significant amount of paper from our local waste stream.  According to a landfill audit conducted by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources-Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention, over 65% of what is disposed of in our local landfills is paper.  Local document destruction companies including AccuShred offer recycling alternatives for this material.  If collections go as expected on this first event, additional events will be scheduled.  For more information call the City of Sylvania Zoning office @419-885-8947 or ACCUSHRED @ 419-244-7473.