Paper shredding event in Marietta

Do you have sensitive documents you need to shred, or are heaps of papers just piling up in file cabinets and boxes around your home?

Keep Marietta Beautiful might be able to help out. We’ve reprinted the information from the city website below:

MARIETTA – On Saturday, March 5, 2022, Marietta’s Parks & Recreation and Keep Marietta Beautiful will hold a shredding event from 9am-12pm at Elizabeth Porter Park located at 370 Montgomery Street NE, Marietta, GA. While the event is free, donations are greatly appreciated.
If you have confidential or sensitive documents that need to be safely discarded, Keep Marietta Beautiful will allow you to watch your documents, safely from your car, as they are shredded on site. Paper items only will be accepted.

For more information:
Maggi Moss
770-794-5609
mmoss@mariettaga.gov

About the City of Marietta

The City of Marietta is the county seat of Cobb County. The latest estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau puts the population of the city at 60,867 which makes it the largest city in Cobb County by population.

However, the city is in a neck-and-neck race with fast-growing Smyrna, whose population was 56,666 at the last estimate.

Here are a few fast facts from the Census Bureau

Marietta city, Georgia

2019 Population Estimates 60,867

Source: Vintage 2019 Population Estimates

Median Household Income $ 57,452

Source: 2015-2019 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates

Persons in poverty, percent 14.0 %

Source: 2015-2019 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates

Educational Attainment: Percent high school graduate or higher 87.7 %

Source: 2015-2019 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates

Persons without health insurance, percent 18.1 %