How do you recycle paper with personal data on it?

[Stinky The Clown]

How do you recycle your bills? Your bank statements. That sort of thing.

I have a few choices. I can take it to the dump and place it into the paper recycling bin. I can leave it curbside for the weekly recycling collection. I can save it in boxes in my basement. I can treat it as garbage and simply throw it away.

So far, I tend to save it in boxes in the basement. A few years ago we brought records going back to before Moby Dick was a minnow to the recycling station at the dump. We currently have records back to 1998 .... in boxes in the basement. Most of the records are still current in terms of account numbers, etc.

What do you do with this kind of crap?