I have 2 bags ready to go to the wiennie roast this weekend. It's cold here but I was told as long as the fire is contained-with a screened lid we can burn it. shredder died last year so I just burn it. And it will be all burnt in a matter of 20 minutes so it takes so little time to protect the info. But . . . I have just been tossing the credit card offers. dummy me figured that if I didn't actually fill it out -well, no harm done. will burn those now too!