What to Shred

What You Can Shred

• Address labels from junk mail and magazines
• ATM receipts
• Bank statements
• Birth certificate copies
• Canceled and voided checks
• Credit and charge card bills, carbon copies, summaries and receipts
• Credit Reports and histories
• Documents containing maiden names (used by credit card companies for security reasons)
• Documents containing names, addresses, phone numbers or e-mail addresses
• Documents relating to investments
• Documents containing passwords or PIN numbers
• Driver’s licenses or items with a driver’s license number
• Employment pay stubs
• Employment records
• Expired passports and visas
• Unlamented identification cards (college IDs, State IDs, employee ID badges, Military IDs)
• Legal documents
• Investment, stock and property transactions
• Items with signature (leases, contracts, letters)
• Luggage tags
• Medical and dental records
• Papers with a Social Security number
• Pre-approved credit card applications
• Receipts with checking account numbers
• Report Cards
• Resumes or curriculum vitae
• Tax Forms
• Transcripts
• Travel itineraries
• Used airline tickets
• Utility bills (telephone, gas, electric, water, cable TV, internet)
• Customers addresses
• Customers names
• Drafts of contracts & Proposals
• Education Records
• Insurance Information
• Loan Information
• Market Analysis
• Obsolete contracts & Proposals
• Patient Billing Information
• Patient Names
• Payroll & Personnel information
• Purchase & service orders
• Sales Information
• Shipping information
• Tax returns & records
• CD Roms
• Computer Disks & Floppies
• Film
• Hard Drives
• Microfilm & Microfiche
• Videotapes
• X-rays (these need to be separated from your paper documents)

⊗ What NOT to Shred

• Binder Clips
• Spiral Notebooks
• Hard bound books
• Plastic
• Trash
• Binders