RALEIGH, N.C. – During the past year, State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) branches hosted Shred Days statewide, offering members a safe and secure way to shred documents in their local North Carolina communities. SECU-organized events provided the benefit at no cost to members, saving them approximately $0.17 per pound for comparable shredding and recycling services, SECU said. When the 2015 Shred Day totals were tallied, over 500,000 pounds of paper were shredded and recycled, equating to more than $88,000 in fees saved by participating members.
SECU hosted the events with Shred-it, a leader in secure document management services, who also provides document shredding, electronic equipment recycling and hard drive destruction for the CU’s 255 branch offices and six operations centers throughout the state. According to Shred-it data, the environmental impact from the CU’s 89 Shred Days was also tremendous – the recycling of 259 tons of paper translated into saving 4,403 trees, 777 cubic yards of landfill space and 1,036,000 kilowatts of energy. All member documents were shredded on-site, monitored and protected from drop-off to destruction by Shred-it’s certified staff.
Brent Wilson, Continuity & Governance Manager with SECU’s Risk Management department helped coordinate the efforts with SECU branch staff and Shred-it personnel. He stated, “With identity theft and fraud at an all-time high, Shred Days provide members a convenient, no-cost option to protect their sensitive information from getting in the wrong hands, giving them greater peace of mind. We look forward to continuing this beneficial service in 2016.”