Recycling Possibilities for DVDs and CDs
Hurricane CD clock from recyclingcds.com £5.99 or $11.63 US Many more amazing styles of CD clocks and be found here.
Have you a million old CDs of old software, work projects, aol disks, junk mail CDs, realtor CDs, CDs with god know what is on it? What can you do with the DVDs and CDs when you finally tackle this hidden pile of junk? You can’t just dump them all in the trash where they will last for hundreds of years slowly leeching nasty chemicals and you aren’t able to put them in with your usual recycling. So what to do?
You may not be aware but for a fee CDs and DVDs can be recycled for continued use as a CD or DVD through such places as Green Disc.com who will recycle and or reuse your computer related waste for a fee. They seem to specialize in recycling all forms of electronic media and their cases: diskettes, zip disks, CDs, DVDs, video tape, game cartridges, DAT, and virtually all other type of computer tapes. Further information can be found here.
Creative and industrious types will find wonderful new lives for their cds as lamps such as this awesome CD Lamp made by Chad shown here. Here is a site that shows exactly how to make similar CD lamps.
Here is another link that discusses a variety of ways you can reuse your CDs in creative ways - some even practical enough to actually do!
Back in 2004 a California lawmaker introduced a bill that would require companies like AOL to include a self-addressed envelope with the CD so if you didn’t want it you could just mail it back - seems like a great idea to me! Here is a c|net link to an article about this.
December 28th, 2007 15:53
I realize I’m going to probably sound like a jerk with my comments, but I guess I’ll live with it.
The CD lamp pictured is the one I built. The site linked to that shows “exactly how to make” the lamp has nothing to do with my lamp, except for the fact that it has a link to this lamp picture on Flickr.
Speaking of Flickr, all of my photos are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, as is easily seen from the photo’s page. This means that the source for the photo (me) should have been attributed in this post. Also, the photo used in this post has been cropped from the original image - something else that the Creative Commons license prohibits. (That’s the “No Derivative” part of the license.)
The reason I use CC for my pictures is to make them easier to use, but there are still some steps that need to be followed.
Thanks
December 29th, 2007 00:09
Sorry about that Chad, I didn’t think you would mind the free publicity, my mistake. I removed the image and clarified the other link.
Best,
Larry
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