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| CD's | | Does anyone know how/where you can recycle CD's? I've been hanging on to them (those I've haven't used as bird scarers) for a few years. Someone must be able to do something useful with them!
| | Bob Mountains 10/06/2009 17:06 | |
If there is a local playgroup or brownies/cub group they may like them to decorate. My daughter is Brown Owl at our Church and I know they have done that - they did them for Christmas.
| Thanks Margaret. Can I ask what/how they made out of them?
| Our pre-school / reception / Rainbows use cds as a base on which to glue a small yogurt pot and then decorate with stickers to make a vase. The question then I guess is what happens to them once they've outlived this secondary purpose - I suspect that most of them end up (eventually) in land-fill. (not that I don't love my yog pot vases, but ....!)
| MacMillan have just started to take CDs and DVDs. They use the recyclingappeal.com service (normally only print cartridges, toner and mobile phones). They will arrange collection for more than 10 items. see this link for details
http://www.evernote.com/shard/s5/sh/64f2131e-f548-4dc9-977e-662252ea2c4f/0bbf94551758efc0fb312d734f2822c1
| That's really helpful, thanks Martin. I used most of mine as bird scarers this year (and suprisingly succesful they were too). But this is good to know for the future. P
| Bird scarers Pete? I use them as squirrel scarers
| ...to keep the pigeons off my brassicas, you understand. I figured it was better than the shotgun!
| The Which Interactive Guide to Recycling is suggesting using http://www.musicmagpie.co.uk/ for music, video, games CD/DVDs and of course donating the cash earned.
My trouble is it doesn't deal with all those free CDs I get on my magazines
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