[Ipg-smz] Recycling CDs & DVDs

[Tom Henderson]

I called my atty, who says: absolutely nope to the IA. Now, she's also 
researching this, gratis. As an environmental atty in their practice, I 
think she'll go down the rabbit hole. Short answer so far is art 
teachers, CL, and FreeCycle.

Thanks,

Tom


On 1/16/19 10:46 PM, Ken Gagne wrote:
>> (But if somebody knows otherwise, name that recipient!)
> Hit up Jason Scott <jscott at archive.org>, freerange archivist at the Internet Archive. For a long time, he was collecting AOL CDs. If those trifles have value, then surely something in Tom's collection does as well.
>
> I trust the IA to keep them out of the landfill, too.
>
> -Ken
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019, at 10:43 PM, Daniel Dern wrote:
>>> On 1/16/19 8:13 PM, Ken Gagne wrote:
>>>> If the discs have non-confidential information (i.e., they're commercial in
>>>> nature), you may consider donating them to the Internet Archive.
>> On Wed, 16 Jan 2019, Tom Henderson wrote:
>>> Technically, some of them are licensed products. And there's over 2000 of
>>> them, easily.
>> The same suggestion might be made wrt the Computer Museum and/or other
>> tech object archives... but that in turn requires, if nothing else,
>> triaging software discs from data and junkers, which, I'm sure, is itself
>> a large thankless effort, and even then, odds are no archive will want
>> said large batch. (But if somebody knows otherwise, name that recipient!)
>>
>> 2nd prize: We all send our old CDs/DVDs there :-)
>>
>>
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