Free paper shred event Saturday at WLAC

If the idea of shredding all of those once-important documents and sensitive (junk) mail has you cringing, the City of Culver City has the solution.

The City’s Environmental Programs & Operations Division can help you dispose of your unwanted documents and records during its free Paper Shredding Event from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at WLA College, Parking Lot 5, 9000 Overland Ave., Culver City, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

This event is open to all Culver City residents. All documents will be commercially shredded by trained, licensed and bonded document destruction specialists Confidential. All shredded documents are recycled into new paper products. This results in:

?  Reduction in use of landfill space

?  Reduction in need for new lumber

?  Reduction in energy and water used to process lumber

Limit of up to 25 legal size file boxes per resident.

For more information please contact Culver City Public Works, Environmental Programs & Operations Division at 310-253-6400 or www.culvercity.org/recycling.