Goodwill to host free shred day in South Fort Myers
Friday, Dec. 12, Beach residents will have the opportunity to shield their identities, help their community, and protect the environment at a “shred day” hosted by Goodwill’s document destruction service, Secure Shred.
The Island Park Shred Day is from 10 a.m .to 2 p.m. at the Goodwill store, 16523 Island Park Road, South Fort Myers.
Goodwill’s Secure Document Destruction service will be on hand to accept personal papers, which will be shredded for free.
Community members will be limited to one bag or banker-sized box (additional documents will be accepted for $5 per bag or box). Sensitive documents will be collected in locked bins for transportation back to Goodwill’s secure shredding facility in North Fort Myers. Patrons will be provided with a certificate of destruction once their materials are shredded.
In 2007, more than eight million Americans became victims of identity theft. The majority of ID theft occurs when the thief has direct contact with the victim’s personal information, through a stolen or lost wallet, rifling through a mailbox or trashcan, or even lifting documents from inside a home or business. Secure destruction of these personal documents is the first step in identity protection.
Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida created its “Secure Shred” document destruction business in 2007 in order to provide jobs for local individuals with severe disabilities while also providing a valuable service to the community. Goodwill provides document destruction to numerous Southwest Florida businesses and agencies, including UBS Financial, LYNX Services, the United Way, the City of Cape Coral, and the City of Fort Myers.
This will be Goodwill’s fifth “shred day” in Southwest Florida. October’s Cape Coral shred day helped more than 130 Southwest Floridians to protect their identities. In all, Goodwill has collected more than 10,000 pounds of confidential documents for destruction at its shredding events.
For more, call 995-2106, Ext. 235.
Goodwill recycles its shredded materials, as well as items collected at its stores that cannot be sold.
Kristen O’Donnell, Goodwill spokeswoman, said, “Our shredding events have proven to be very popular. Recently, our Cape Coral shred day at city hall attracted more than 130 patrons and collected over 6,000 pounds of documents for secure destruction.”