2 Free Shredding Events This June In Monmouth County
CHICAGO - JUNE 3: Illinois-based American Mobile Shredding and Recycling worker Ken Greifelt arranges boxes of shredded documents in the company's mobile document shredding truck, Melrose Park, outside St. Ignatius College Prep school June 3, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois. Document shredding companies are becoming busier with the newer rules pertaining to the required shredding and destruction of consumer's information. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)
Shred documents for personal security! Monmouth County has announced a free service for residents who want to get rid of old documents that contain personal information. A free shredding truck will be in two Monmouth County locations in June:
June 10th in Matawan. Look for the shredding truck in parking lot #1 at the Matawan-Aberdeen train station.
June 17th in Oceanport. Look for the shredding truck at the Oceanport Borough Hall at 910 Oceanport Way (located in Ft. Monmouth).
The events are 9am to 1pm but will end early if the truck fills up before 1pm. Might want to show up early. Note that large binder clips must be removed but small staples and paper clips can stay (that makes things a lot simpler than using a home shredder for this project). There’s a limit of 100 pounds per person, about 4 boxes. No business shredding for businesses, as you can see below.
Why shred papers? Personal information contained on old documents can lead to identity theft. Obviously, things like your social security number cannot get out into the public. But, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, old documents with birthdays and old addresses are problematic too.
Some people hoard that stuff. I remember when my mom passed away I had to deal with all kinds of old tax forms and bank records. I wasn’t really sure what to do with them until a friend suggested a shredding service. I was willing to pay for this… but Monmouth County knows that identity theft is a real problem so they’re setting up this service for free (paid for by our tax dollars, no doubt).
Here’s a list of the complete schedule of shredding events in Monmouth County.
Things We Love: Sandy Hook
It’s not a secret. The tippy top of the Jersey Shore is a pretty spectacular place. There’s so much to do at Sandy Hook.
Fishing, surfing, running, biking, sail boarding, exploring history, wild life watching and even going “full monte” at the only beach north of Florida where you can fully naked!
Today, we’re saluting this great treasure of the Jersey shore that puts a magnificent end to the Bay Shore beach areas along the Raritan and Sandy Hook Bays and starts the 130+ mile north to south stretch of Atlantic coast down to Cape May. Sandy Hook, we love it!
Here’s a fun tip for you, parking can be pricey at Sandy Hook in the summer but if you arrive at the front gates between 6 and 7am you’ll get a free pass on parking.
We were fortunate to have a lot of our friends on social media contribute images to our collection. Others are contributed by the National Park Service! More pictures will be added as we receive them and process them.
When Carl is not working at the greatest rock radio station known to mankind; a station known around the globe; a station that has the best music, co-workers, advertisers and most importantly THE BEST F'N LISTENERS you may find me doing any one of the following: Riding or making mountain bike trails. playing with his kids. playing sand volleyball on 5th Ave, cooking amazing food, including on his sweet smoker grill, going to concerts, swimming in the ocean, going to amusement parks with his kids, and other stuff that rocks!
