AJPD, Food Bank, Right Away Disposal to Hold Free Shredding Event
[NEWS RELEASE] The Apache Junction Police Department has teamed up with the Apache Junction Food Bank and Right Away Disposal (RAD) for its first ever Docu-Shred event on Friday, Oct. 19. The Docu-Shred event is free and designed to promote public awareness about identity theft and fraud prevention. Identity theft impacts millions of people each year. Shredding documents, instead of throwing them in the garbage, is an essential tool in combating identity theft.
From 8 a.m. to noon, RAD will take suitable paper documents to shred in the parking lot northwest of the Apache Junction Police Department, 1001 N. Idaho Road. The public is asked to bring a donation of non-perishable and unexpired food for the Apache Junction Food Bank.
Here are items that are needed:
Peanut butter, jelly, tuna, pasta and pasta sauces, canned soups, canned fruits and vegetables, cereal, macaroni and cheese, Jell-O, fruit cups, beans, rice, nonperishable cakes, muffin, stuffing and pancake mixes, sauces, dressings, oil and spices.
Please do not donate expired food or severely dented or damaged cans as they are of no use to the food bank.
Citizens are invited to bring their unwanted personal documents to be shredded securely on site free of charge. Residents and businesses can bring up to three (3) legal-size boxes of paper records – cancelled checks, pay stubs, credit card statements and the like – for off-site shredding by Arizona Document Destruction and the Arizona Center for the Blind. The boxes of pages may contain staples and paper clips but must be free of notebooks or other bindings. All participants will receive a certificate of destruction.
If you have any questions, please contact the AJPD Community Resource Coordinator, at (480) 474-5442 or cru@ajcity.net.
About RAD
Apache Junction-based RAD is a recognized community-based leader in the waste, recycling and sanitation industry. It’s also the largest Arizona-based waste provider in the state for commercial and residential customers, with nearly 280 employees. RAD provides trash and single-stream recycling to the municipalities of Queen Creek, Eloy, Apache Junction, Globe, Florence and many other communities within Pinal and Maricopa Counties.
At RAD, Apache Junction is the heart of our business. We rely on the many businesses and residents we serve just as they rely on us. That’s why it’s so important to us to forge positive relationships within our community, and to give back whenever possible to those who have supported us through the years. RAD takes great pride in local participation.
