Dear Editor,
We are fortunate to live in Richmond where we can recycle almost everything. One thing to keep in mind, however, is that the yellow recycling bags for paper are not safe for confidential materials.
Because of our location, a lot of debris ends up on our lawn. In the recent past, I have found a detailed travel itinerary, an invoice requesting payment of an overdue account, and a prescription complete with all the usual details.
The prescription was from an address one block over and would have travelled around two street corners to get to our yard.
If you don’t want strangers seeing your sensitive information, please shred or rip up your recycled documents.
Marion Smith
Richmond
