The Village of Mount Prospect Public Works Department is hosting a document destruction event on Saturday, August 4, from 9am – 12pm at the Public Works Facility, located at 1700 W. Central Road, Mount Prospect. The event is available to residents of Solid Waste Association of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) member communities. See the SWANCC web site  for a list of members. Please have ID with you, as staff will be checking each vehicle for residency.

Paper documents must be brought to the event in either paper shopping bags or boxes - NO PLASTIC BAGS - please! There is a limit of six paper shopping bags or file-size boxes per vehicle. Paper must be free of contamination, such as metal clips, plastic sleeves, folders, and binders. Workers will remove paper from vehicles to place in carts. Then documents will then be loaded into the shredding truck. The paper will be cross-shredded, baled, and eventually recycled into new paper products. For more information or call 847/870-5640.