** CD RECYCLING INFORMATION from The Compact Disc Recycling Center of America
Did you know each year, billions of CDs and DVDs are manufactured,
while millions of these discs end up in landfills and incinerators?
This is harmful to our environment.
If you use, sell, promote, distribute, or manufacture compact discs, it
is important to know how and where to recycle them.
Compact Discs, when recycled properly, will stop unnecessary pollution,
conserve natural resources, and help slow global warming. Learn how at:
www.cdrecyclingcenter.org
If you are an organization to help save the Earth:
You can basically help us spread the word, study this website, also
direct as many people as you can here. Please post or forward our
information to who and where you can to help drive this campaign. If
you’re local, you could volunteer at our sorting center in Salem, NH
during scheduled volunteer days. If you have a website or blog or
access to local press in your area, please refer them to us. Please ask
people to only work with duplication companies that have pledged to
recycle all their compact disc waste, by product and return materials.
Please check our website to see if a company you have chosen to work
with has become a registered member.
An individual:
Discs only
Choose a small location in your home, perhaps a home office or the basement.
Place a small envelope or box there, and write on it “Recycle Compact Discs Here”.
Simply take a few minutes, check your car, and other areas of your house for old, scratched, used, or unwanted discs.
Place all the discs into the box.
Mark the box “CDs / DVDs / HD-DVD / Blu-ray Discs only”
Cases
If you have plastic cases such as a jewel case, or a slim
case, please see if you can reuse them, or keep them for future use
with perhaps another new disc.
If broken or cracked, please collect in a separate box, other than the disc box.
We accept all standard CD packages, cases and sleeves.
If
your CD case is a carboard and plastic combination, such as a DigiPak
or similar, please tear off the plastic part and place it in this box,
but see below in regards to the paper.
Mark the box “cases only”
Inserts, Covers, Paperwork
If you have covers, inserts, manuals or any other paper or
paper board product that accompanies your compact disc, Please collect
in a separate box. Please write on it “CD paperwork here”
Mark the box “paper only”
When your boxes or envelopes are full, please send to:
The Compact Disc Recycling Center of America
68H Stiles Road
Salem, NH 03079
Yes, the shipping may cost you a small amount, but although you may
not realize it, you’ll be generating less trash, which you would have
to pay to dispose of anyway. Less trash = less weight = less pickups
which hopefully means fewer and cheaper trash pick ups.
Think about it…
You’ll generate less trash.
You’ll be helping the very planet you live on.
Landfills will be less filled with non-decomposing plastic
Incinerators will be generating less pollution that hurts our atmosphere.
Your Recycling companions will love you for it.
If needed…
You can rent or purchase a CD shredder and CD collection boxes from one of our
affiliates