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 recycle an unlimited number of disks and you only pay for postage!
CD Recycling Center of America in Salem, NH - accepts CDs, DVDs, and jewel cases free of charge. You pay for postage.
GreenDisk in Sahammish, WA offers unlimited CD recycling, technology equipment recycling, and their own line of recycled products.
FreeRecycling in Laguna Niguel, CA has a practically unnavigable website, but also offers CD and DVD recycling and bulk containers that destroy data on the CDs upon disposal.
In a life-cycle analysis of compact disks, the EPA gives an ironic “fun fact” that “more than 5.5 million boxes of software go to landfills and incinerators, plus people throw away millions of music CDs
each year!”
What are you doing with your CDs and DVDs? Did you know that recycling was an option?
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