September 22, 2020 – Macon County Environmental Management Department is sponsoring a free paper shredding event on Friday, October 23, 2020, from 8-9:50 a.m. at the Macon County Environmental Management Recycling Center at 1750 North 21st Street in Decatur. Registration is not required and residents can bring confidential documents, files, and other sensitive information for on-site shredding.
Residents wanting to participate need to follow the “reduced contact procedure” which was instituted by Confidential Onsite Paper Shredding (C.O.P.S.).
All participants are required to stay in their car until notified by an event representative.
Cars must stay in the traffic flow lane and wait their turn to be allowed service.
Shred technicians are not allowed to handle material; each individual customer will be required to place confidential documents in the bin for shredding. This will require participants to dump their boxes or bags into the service bin, please account for this and only use boxes or bags that you can lift yourself. Limit of 3-5 standard size boxes or bags per vehicle.
Participants are no longer allowed to park off to the side and bring boxes or bags in order to skip the lines, you will be required to wait in your car and in line for your turn.
Please make sure there are no batteries, electronics, or large metal/wood in the material that you are designating for shredding, this can damage the shredding system At this time, we are not allowing participants to come up to the truck to view the shredding screen.
C.O.P.S. reserves the right to turn any participant away if they are not complying with the revised standards.
