[4/1/04]Lots of documents will be shredded in Vicksburg Saturday, but no government secrets will be destroyed.

As a part of Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day, Secure Data of MS, LLC, will shred household confidential documents free of charge.

Collections of almost all sorts will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Halls Ferry Park off South Frontage Road adjacent to The Home Depot. In addition to the usual hazardous materials that include paint, motor oil and tires, residents will be allowed to dispose of broken or worn out computers, printers and intact monitors for the first time this year.

The cleanup is being funded by the City of Vicksburg and Warren County and a $25,000 grant from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Right-Way-to-Throw-Away program. A $1,000 grant from Dell Computers through DEQ is funding the “No Computer Should Go To Waste” program.

Computers will be taken to a company in Baton Rouge that recycles usable components.

This year’s cleanup will again be coordinated with Keep Vicksburg-Warren Beautiful’s annual litter day. Volunteers pick up trash from along roadsides all around the city as part of the national Keep America Beautiful program.

The hazardous waste collection site is being moved from the Battlefield Village mall parking lot to Halls Ferry Park for the first time this year. Marcia Weaver of the city’s planning department said signs will be posted at the former site and at the park entrance.

In 2002, about 700 vehicles were counted at the hazardous waste day. No waste collection day was set last year because funding through DEQ was not available.

Those items that will be accepted free of charge are batteries, paint, used oil, antifreeze, pesticides, insecticides, aerosols, acids and flammable liquids. Nonhazardous items to be accepted are clothes, furniture, paper, plastics, tires and metals including appliances, aluminum, copper, brass, steel and bi-metal cans.