Civic partners with cities, towns and counties across North Carolina to host free community shred events and electronics recycling events. It’s one of the simplest ways you can protect your personal records from thieves.

What can I bring?

For shred events, each attendee can bring up to three boxes (or 75 pounds) of paper documents for shredding. Bring your confidential and personal documents containing Social Security numbers, account numbers, birth dates, passwords or PINs, signatures, addresses or phone numbers.

For electronics recycling events, we accept any telecommunications equipment, household electronics, and networking and computer equipment. We do not accept household appliances, batteries, or any type of used medical device.

Call the event hotline at 888-242-0334 for more information.