GREENSBORO, N.C. — Credit card, insurance, bank CD offers, you get so many of them in the mail. If you don't need them, you probably trash them, and that's a mistake.

"Your identity from the trash is worth 30,000 to an identity thief. The info you get from your credit card company, your bank, even your pharmacy, there's so much information on your paperwork already. It's so easy for identity thieves to take that, go online, and mine a little bit more and start to put together an identity," said Lechelle Yates, Better Business Bureau.

Instead of trashing these things, to protect your identity, you should be shredding them. But these aren't the only things that need to be shredded.

SHRED DAILY: Credit card offers, receipts you don't need

SHRED AFTER 1 YR: Bank & credit card statemen

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