Can You Recycle Old CDs?
And if so, where can you do it in Vancouver? I use a few of mine as coasters, but most of them end up in the trash. I don’t see the little magic recycling triangle on them, so that seems to imply that you can’t.
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I have often thought about this but never bothered to research it. This site (http://www.ci.concord.ca.us/living/recycle/env-cd-dvd.htm) seems to be the only one I’ve seen that actually recycles them.
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Nope, CDs are pretty much landfill fodder. Though they make great coasters, mobiles…
But because of the metalic and plastic nature, they can’t be recycled. There was a big article on this about 3-4 years ago on a couple guys dumping all the free AOL CDs back on AOL.
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You might want to check with Monitor King in Richmond, they do a variety of computer related recycling & disposal. If they don’t do it themselves, perhaps they might know who does.
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And in response to Tris: Plenty of items that have not been recyclable in the past have solutions now, or may soon in the future. There has been a lot of funding, investigation and progress recently. I’d be very hesitant to write off something as volumous as CDs as non-recyclable.
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You could save them to make one heckuva mobile for over a crib when you or relatives/friends have babies. All those flashy shiny bits AND the occasional “Explicit Lyrics” label are bound to endear you to the wee ones.
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Take that cd outside and see how far you can chuck it. You may think I’m kidding or being flip, but you can seriously toss those things a loooong way, it should be an Olympic sport. I was pleasantly suprised to find this out when I flung a bunch of AOL signup cds out behind a book store I worked at once.
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Macorelli August 4th, 2007
9:52 am
Hey all - I’m glad to see some other environmentally aware peeps out there doing what they can. I jsut found this place in Vancouver who recycle cd’s. Check out this site.
http://freegeekvancouver.org/en/computer_recycling
Keep recycling!!
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xmas tree plant June 17th, 2008
5:54 pm
I went to that freegeekvancouver site and near the bottom under things you cannot recycle…..it says CD’s. So good effort, but I guess we’ll have to keep lookin.
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sanders December 30th, 2008
11:04 pm
All BestBuy stores throughout the US and Canada have bins to recycle old CD’s and much more. Check out their site.
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Cathy Reply:
January 28th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
I just went to Futureshop on Robson downtown today and they have a box where you can toss in old CDs, mp3 players, CD players, etc. for recycling.
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