Glenview State Bank, a $1.1 billion-asset bank, will hold four free shredding days for the public to  dispose of up to 25 pounds of cancelled checks and other documents that are no longer needed or wanted.

Drive-through service will be provided with three 12,000-pound-capacity industrial shredding trucks on site for the first event, from 9 a.m. to noon on April 9 at the bank’s main office at 800 Waukegan Rd., Glenview.

“The first of the four events is always the craziest,” said David Kreiman, executive vice president.  The bank usually serves nearly 1,000 cars in the three hours.

“We have it down to a science,” Kreiman said. ” I have four people on staff as traffic control, with two lanes, and four to six people handling the shredding.”

As people drive through, the employees dump the papers into large bins.  When the bins are full they get loaded onto a truck and shredded. A
bank video shows the crew in action.

“For those who want to watch, they can park,” Kreiman said. “There is a TV monitor on the truck.”

Shredding events will be held in June, August and October at branches in Northbrook, Arlington Heights and Glenview, respectively.

Materials should be placed in paper bags or containers that can be returned to the owner;  plastic bags can’t be put in the shredding equipment.

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