Shred Day a Rip-Roaring Success

Strongsville residents dumped more than 16 tons of paper at the fourth annual Shred Day April 30 -- nearly double last year's amount.

"We ended up having to turn people away," said Jennifer Milbrandt, Strongsville's coordinator of natural resources. "The trucks were full."

Last year, nearly 400 cars drove through and Gateway Recycling took away nine tons of shredded paper. The year before people brought in seven tons.

This year's was "an overwhelming success," Milbrandt said.

Volunteers  helped unload boxes of paper for shredding at the event, which was in the parking lot of the .  Items were dumped into large recycle containers and once full, were fed into a  secure shredding machine.   

Millbrandt said the next Shred Day is set for Oct. 15.