Brookhaven Town Supervisor Mark Lesko has announced that small businesses can clean out their file cabinets, attics, and storerooms full of old letters, medical forms, and financial records and bring them to the Town's Materials Recycling Facility on October 23rd where they will be fed into a large shredder and baled for recycling. The massive mobile shredder is provided by Hudson-Baylor, the company that manages the Town's Material Recycling facility. It can efficiently shred large volumes of records in minimal time while preserving security. Hudson-Baylor retains the first 7000 lbs. of
shredded paper and the Town gets the rest, which is baled and sold at market. The Town's Materials Recycling Facility is located at 350 Horseblock Road in Yaphank.
"Many residents and small businesses use desk-side shredders or just throw their papers in the trash," said Supervisor Lesko. "This program gives them an alternate method for the secure disposal of a large volume of documents and it is also extremely beneficial to the environment."
Documents brought to the shredding event will be dumped into a 65-gallon container and then into the shredder, enabling each participant to witness the secure destruction of sensitive papers. Paper can be brought in boxes or bags. Documents can remain stapled together, but paper clips and other metal must be removed along with any other contaminants such as rubber bands. For more information about the Town's Material Recycling Facility visit our website at www.brookhaven.org.
