Paper Shredding now available to our customers

You can now shred your confidential documents at the library for free!

The Plainville Public Library now has a locked container for collecting confidential documents.  All you have to do is drop the documents you would like to be shredded into the secure containers, and we take care of the rest!

Shredding process
You place your documents in the locked container inside the library.  The containers are collected from the library on a regularly scheduled basis by Mansfield Shredding Service, a National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) certified organization.
A Mansfield Shredding Service employee takes the container to thier location in their secure trucks.  Neither the library nor Mansfield Shredding Service ever sees the documents inside the secure containers. After the documents are shredded, the confetti-sized pieces are recycled at Hannah Paper Recycling in Mansfield. 
 
What items are suitable for shredding?
This new service is designed for individual use. Not for business use.

• Personal billing records
• Contact lists
• Credit card receipts
• Financial reports
• Legal briefs and documents
• Medical records
• Memos/notes containing personal information
• Payroll and employment documents

 Mansfield shredding will issue and provide the Plainville Public Library a certificate of destruction after each bucket is picked up and this will be kept for 2 years. Funding from the Passport Revolving Fund is providing this service. ​

---