Each year, billions of CDs and DVDs are manufactured, while millions of these discs end up in landfills and incinerators. The CD Recycling Center of America will properly recycle your discs. Just send them in, it’s free. CDs and DVDs are EVERYWHERE. As new technology emerges, CDs and DVDs are becoming unwanted and obsolete daily. But you can put them to good use. Proper collection, sorting, handling and recycling allows your unwanted discs to become new items molded from the recycled plastic. Home goods, automotive parts, building materials and many more everyday items can be made from the #7, high quality plastic that discs are made from. The key is to keep all the discs together, and separate from lower grade plastics that contaminate them. That’s what we do here at the CD Recycling Center of America. Think of this… If every American mailed just one disc to the center, yes – just one disc… there would be enough discs to fill a freight train that is 234 cars long! Look around your home, office and auto. You have discs everywhere. So if any of your discs become damaged, obsolete or simply unwanted, please do not put them in the trash! Now you know. You’re in the loop. Please set aside your unwanted discs, follow the instructions on our recycling website, and mail them into our collection center. Go forth and recycle! If you use, sell, promote, distribute, or manufacture compact discs, please learn and promote how to recycle them. Use of our CD Recycling logo is free …
Great video!
This is fantastic! What types of products are the chips made into?
Thanks! The plastic chips are remanufactured generally into automotive industry parts, and home building materials.
When people get rid of CD’s I take them home and listen to them… I found at least two Bumpn’ Mixes that way.
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awesome, also you can download and make art projects with them
LET’S GO GREEN!
I’m given to understand there is gold on CDs as well?
No. Every CD, DVD, CDR & DVDr does have a extremely thin metal layer for reflectivity of the laser, but it is typically aluminum or silver. Yes, some older discs has a gold layer, but a very small percentage and a very small amount!
Amazing! I have a pretty decent sized box with separated CDs and jewel cases. I recycled the paper in the regular way. Unfortunately I’m in Toronto, Canada and there are no centers near me! I still have the box though … didn’t want to throw it out. Do you have any suggestions for me? International shipping might be a bit costly.
We actually do receive packages from outside of the country. I do not know if Canada has an affordable mail piece rate. Hopefully someday we will have a collection center in Canada for discs. In the mean time, hang on to them and please don’t send them to a landfill or incinerator!
Wow! What an incredibly entertaining and informative video! This should be used in schools across the Country as a way to teach responsible recycling. Great job and thank you!
@CDRecyclingcenter how do I set up a cd recycling center in my country?
Why not send to a incinerator?