[Ipg-smz] Recycling CDs & DVDs

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I always freecycle my electronics.

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 7:38 AM Tom Henderson <thenderson at extremelabs.com>
wrote:

> 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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