NOWADAYS everyone is encouraged to be security conscious, especially with regards to papers, with names, addresses and particularly banking details.
Personality theft is a very worrying phenomena. One way of fighting this – being pushed very strongly – is shredding.
Fine, but have you seen TV programmes such as CSI, where they return shredded paper to a readable format by, granted, a painstaking and tediously time-consuming method? But it can be done.
May I suggest a pretty foolproof answer – and it has green credentials?
Shredded paper helps to make good garden compost. I put mine on the compost heap, and am quite content for anyone anxious to get my details to help themselves.
I’m sure the decomposing grass, weeds, peapods, carrot and potato peelings will make a lovely mixture from which to extract my, by now, somewhat damp and dank details.
Of course, if that doesn’t deter, perhaps the worms, slugs, snails and other creepy crawlies beavering away to turn my garden and kitchen rubbish into superb compost will!
People so inclined might search your bins, but would they know you were composting it?
Even if they did, in view of the above I would suggest they may well try elsewhere!
Gordon S Hirst
Fenay Bridge
