Tip of the week: Where can I recycle CDs and DVDs?
Until a few years ago, the only options for recycling CDs included making mobiles from fishing wire and tiling your bathroom floor.
Despite their primarily plastic contents, CDs and DVDs can’t be included in household recycling and very few centers are set up to accept them. Most people chuck them in the trash – where they go from the trash can to the incineration facility to be burned or the landfill to never biodegrade.
Good news!
Several companies have taken up the challenge to remove these plastic disks from the waste stream and put them back into use. In some cases, they’ll …read more