Does it cross your mind..

[Yazza54]

Where your rubbish goes?


I buy a lot of parts/crap off the interwebs..generally it comes to either my home or office in a jiffy bag. The jiffy bags have my name and address on the front and they usually have a note of some sort inside with these details on too.

I heard that a lot of our rubbish ends up all over India and other places that are less economically developed. It worried me and I ended up with a mass of jiffy bags and things I didn't want to put in the bin! I've just spent half an hour ripping up jiffy bags and bits of paper, filled a full bin bag and still some left to go in the bin! Theres enough fraud and dodgy goings on in this world as it is without my details being posted all over the place.

Am I a certified loon or does anyone else have the same worries when binning things?

[maniac0796]

I have a thing about keeping the receipt from debit card transactions. There's only 4 numbers of my card number on there, but..

[Yazza54]

maniac0796 said:

I have a thing about keeping the receipt from debit card transactions. There's only 4 numbers of my card number on there, but..

You've reminded me.. I have a draw full of receipts too!

[Jayho]

Lol jiffy bags are a bit more difficult, but the pieces of paper with your information? wont it be your best interest to shred them up and recycle all the shreddings?

Mate of mines used to have a fireplace, and his dad often put anything with sensitive/important information in the fireplace.

[sinizter]

I always remove anything with my address on it and shred or rip it into tiny little bits.

No point taking a risk - whether the fraud attempt is here in this country or somewhere else.

[EU_Foreigner]

Always shred it. Never understand people throwing bank statements away unshredded, asking for trouble.

[Yazza54]

I just don't want this guy ringing me up..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MTFauI8INY

[4988cc]

Buy a decent shredder.

Take sticker off (and shred it) Jiffy bag and re-use it.

Or save them up and chuck them on a fire when you next have one.

[B3njamin]

Always burn bits with any sensitive information on - soak them all in water for a few days and you can use the pulp to make solid 'bricks'. They work well for starting fires and the countless bits of paper with details on etc are disposed of in the process. The sheets of paper that are plastic coated get cut up and then burnt once the fire is going nicely.

[Hitch78]

Can you use them to fuel cars? Or am I on jiffybagandcreditcardreceiptdisposalandrecyclingheads.com by mistake?

[Yazza54]

Hitch78 said:

Can you use them to fuel cars? Or am I on jiffybagandcreditcardreceiptdisposalandrecyclingheads.com by mistake?

Have you not noticed that theres a lot of threads on here that are nothing to do with cars?

If it makes you any happier they are generally car parts that I buy...

[Hitch78]

Yazza54 said:

Hitch78 said:

Can you use them to fuel cars? Or am I on jiffybagandcreditcardreceiptdisposalandrecyclingheads.com by mistake?

Have you not noticed that theres a lot of threads on here that are nothing to do with cars?

If it makes you any happier they are generally car parts that I buy...

Much better.

[Engineer1]

You can get a rubber stamp that is designed to stamp over the address or other sensitive details on a letter. I have no idea where they come from but my parents bought one.

[Silver Smudger]

Engineer1 said:

You can get a rubber stamp that is designed to stamp over the address or other sensitive details on a letter. I have no idea where they come from but my parents bought one.

Or use a thick black marker pen?

[Parrot of Doom]

I never bother shredding anything. It all goes in the bin.

If people want to use my information to set up a fraud, fine, but it won't be me that gets defrauded.

[sday12]

B3njamin said:

The sheets of paper that are plastic coated get cut up and then burnt once the fire is going nicely.

Burning plastic? Earth murderer!

[Gnits]

I seem to remember someone saying that US receipts have the full card number on if you go to the right /wrong places.
If you think that you are being secure watch the Real Hustle a few times!

[Jasandjules]

4988cc said:

Buy a decent shredder.

Take sticker off (and shred it) Jiffy bag and re-use it.

Or save them up and chuck them on a fire when you next have one.

This.

[ceriw]

B3njamin said:

Always burn bits with any sensitive information on - soak them all in water for a few days and you can use the pulp to make solid 'bricks'. They work well for starting fires and the countless bits of paper with details on etc are disposed of in the process. The sheets of paper that are plastic coated get cut up and then burnt once the fire is going nicely.

make sure you start the fire- did a job for an semi invalid 80 year old who was living in semi squalor- i reroofed his house for free. his family(friends of mine) believed him to be broke - they paid his council tax, heating, electric etc
he was an ex p.o.w. -concentration camp building bridges for japs etc all alone etc blah blah

after finishing the job in good time, then fixing his old citroen, and loads of other odd jobs i decided to clean out his wood burner as it was choked full with crap - on the top was his bank statement from standard chartered that he had forgotten to burn. only £120,000 in cash in his current account.... his dividends from shell were impressive.

seems the good ones died in the concentration camp...

[B3njamin]

sday12 said:

B3njamin said:

The sheets of paper that are plastic coated get cut up and then burnt once the fire is going nicely.

Burning plastic? Earth murderer!

Is it worse than burning oil?

ceriw said:

B3njamin said:

My drivel

A really rather sad story

How sad... His past arguably demands empathy but it's hard to not feel a little disappointed at his actions. Still, an old man who has all that money and chooses not to spend it whilst living in apparent squalor makes you ask what he had planned for that money since you can't take it with you as you leave this world.