[Ipg-smz] Recycling CDs & DVDs

[Tom Henderson]

Technically, some of them are licensed products. And there's over 2000 
of them, easily. They need to be used as shiny objects, or by someone 
that can genuinely recycle them. They have ugly metals in them.... 
cadmium among them. I don't want to landfill them if at all possible. 
Some of them are interim work product. You may remember the days of 
burning DVDs rather than using flash.... we burned plenty.

Tom


On 1/16/19 8:13 PM, Ken Gagne wrote:
> Tom,
>
> If the discs have non-confidential information (i.e., they're commercial in nature), you may consider donating them to the Internet Archive.
>
> -Ken
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019, at 7:23 PM, Tom Henderson 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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