Recycling: what to do with CDs and DVDs?

[gegejf]

Hello,

And what do you do with it? Do you have a collection network or do you need to ship them?

send them to:
CODELO
128 Leon Blum Avenue
38000 Grenoble

for the Assoc. IRE

don't forget your address!

[Christophe]

The recycling (at least the collection) of old used CD and DVD Rom is advancing in France ... well, it looks like: http://www.coldisk.fr/

Each year, 200 million CDs / DVDs are sold in France. Substrates made of 95% polycarbonate, a noble plastic that retains almost the same characteristics after recycling.

CDs and DVDs are, however, difficult to recycle because they overlap different layers of material. Only a few specialists like CDMoi and AtmosPlastic transform them into granules. These granules will be used to make safety glasses, computer and printer cases, car bumpers, plexiglass windows, etc.

The main difficulty remains collecting CDs and DVDs, most of which end up in the trash. These media are in fact not considered as waste electronic equipment (WEEE). "WEEE treatment specialists do not care about CD / DVD because they do not earn money on this market and stocks are too small and diffuse for their operating costs" explains Denis David, founder of Coldisk.

It is to compensate for this weakness that he has just launched Coldisk: a service for collecting CDs, DVDs and plastic cases. It will initially operate on the Ile de France which is the region most equipped with IT.

Coldisk will help communities and large companies to install selective CD / DVD / box collections. Coldisk collects CDs / DVDs directly from large companies and sends them to an eco-approved processing center. For communities, Coldisk offers town halls to install containers at key points (cultural facilities, schools, recycling center) to allow recovery of waste.

The cost of the service (130 to 300 euros / tonne depending on the territory) is around 20% cheaper than the cost of an identical service for conventional household waste:

- local authorities only pay for what is picked up + rental or purchase of containers + a travel package.

- companies pay for the service according to the number of CDs to be picked up + a travel package.

The processing centers selected by Coldisk re-use all the material in France to manufacture new products. In ecological jargon, we speak of a short closed loop: the waste from a first industrial process is transformed into raw material from a second industrial process in a limited geographical area and with a limited number of intermediaries.

Source: http://www.zdnet.fr/blogs/greenit/ne-je ... 702368.htm

[elephant]

Cultural support, must see:

- either they are edition CDs and you sell them on e-bay: you will make people happy
- either they are homemade copies or back-ups, and reinjection in readable form is excluded, indeed.

Personally, I collect the empty boxes and I buy the CD's by drums of 50, which I put back in the boxes

[gegyx]

The cost of the service (130 to 300 euros / tonne depending on the territory) is around 20% cheaper than the cost of an identical service for conventional household waste:

- local authorities only pay for what is picked up + rental or purchase of containers + a travel package.

- companies pay for the service according to the number of CDs to be picked up + a travel package.

In short, Coldisk is a win-win?

[Bonnetta]

Here is an association that collects CDs for recycling:
www.cdmoi.asso.fr

[Former Oceano]

Hang them on strings to scare birds.
Stick them on a dish to make a solar collector.
Decorate your car with it.
Make stirling engines.
etc., etc..

[gegyx]

Hang them on your balcony, on you ...

Naturally! Obviously! ...


In addition, it will be "trendy",

Since all this arsenal will Bling, Bling ...

[Alainfree]

Hello,
It was while looking for a solution that I came across this subject. I have a bunch of FAI CDs, RW's that don't work anymore.
They contain not only polycarbonate but also metals of silver and gold, therefore very polluting but which have value if recycling does not cost more.
But if I understand correctly it is up to us to pay collectors who will make money for themselves.
Isn't there a fairer solution?

[elephant]

Welcome Alainfree.

And yes: what gold value on a CD ?? a few milligrams. On the other hand nothing that the collection is expensive.

[Yves CUILLANDRE]

Hello everyone, I am a new member of your forum.
I am a DVD editor (around 250000 DVDs a year) and concerned about their recycling. I found on this forum expectations on your part, I would like you to react on the site that I have just started with one of the most important CD and DVD pressing plant: offer the recovery of old CDs and DVDs (as for ink cartridges ) but I would like to go further, reward this gesture for our environment, by offering vouchers for a new DVD.
I also work on more ecological DVDs, recyclable covers and cases and DVDs found in all department stores.
I would like to have your reactions on this approach which I intend to set up at the beginning of the year for France, Belgium and Switzerland.
See you soon
YC