[Ipg-smz] Recycling CDs & DVDs

[Sharon Fisher]

Any local wineries or orchards?  Some use them to scare birds.

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:34 PM Mac McCarthy <mac.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is probably no help, but when I was in Sao Paolo Brazil a few years
> ago, our group was taken on a tour of a warehouse used by a Mardi Gras
> parade group to prepare their costumes and floats for the coming year. At
> that time, one of the items decorating their costumes was discarded laser
> discs.
>
> You might not conveniently contact such a Brazilian group and ship CDs to
> them, but there might be New Orleans Mardi Gras groups who'd use them. Or
> such [age groups in other cities.
>
> mac
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 4:24 PM Tom Henderson <thenderson at extremelabs.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Fellow Guilders,
>>
>> Our local waste management district doesn't take CDs/DVDs. There are
>> rare metals inside. I can understand.
>>
>> Apparently, there are some art teachers that use them.
>>
>> I am about to cast off over 2000+ CDs/DVDs. Any ideas who else uses old
>> media? Not one of these is useful, unless you like XP, TechNet, and many
>> burns that my lab did over the past 20yrs.
>>
>> Practical ideas appreciated.
>>
>> A note: I have used them glued to old pressboard to focus sun on my
>> solar panels to optimize light reflection to the panels. This only works
>> up to the saturation point of the panel, and although I didn't hurt the
>> panel, I could've cooked it.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
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