How can I recycle my old CDs/DVDs without paying any fees?

Question

I live in Northeast USA. My town does not recycle CDs, DVDs currently. They told me to throw them in the garbage.

I checked some websites like greendisk.com, but they want me to pay them for the service and also i have to pay for shipping.

Is there any way I can recycle this for free?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

have a rummage sale on your lawn.  Sell them to someone else cheap.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

If you have any fruit trees and want to keep birds away, you just drill a hole in the top of the CD, run some string through it and tie it to a limb so it will spin in the wind...the flashing keeps birds away!

Answer 4

Donate them to Salvation Army

GoodWill

Second hand stores

Libraries

Homeless Shelters

Answer 5

Take them to a used CD/Record shop. They'll even give you a few dollars for them. You'll be recycling the music into someone else's ears!

Answer 6

go to your local recycling center.

Answer 7

www.freecycle.org.

I just found out about freecycling a couple of weeks ago. And just this week,I have been able to help two people out and have been helped out myself. It's an awesome way to get rid of things that you no longer want or need. I wish I had heard about it sooner. You never know who you might be able to help.

good luck!

Answer 8

You could try donating them to your local library, or if you have a used book store in your neighborhood, they might accept them......or you could donate them to a local Senior Center, etc.....

Answer 9

just put them in the garbage all they r going to do is burn it anyway

Answer 10

You can take them to a HALF PRICED BOOKS, EXCHANGE or other buy back location and get a little bit of money for them OR you can POST them on FREECYCLE.ORG and someone else can enjoy them for FREE !  It beats just throwing them away !  

Good luck

Answer 11

Make stuff out of them. One of the clocks in the room I'm sitting in has a face consisting of the shiny side of an old AOL disk. Just add a clock mechanism and some stickers to denote the hours.

I've also heard of mobiles and mosaics made of cd's. Use your imagination. Need coasters?

Answer 12

List them on your local Freecycle List

Answer 13

If there's any charitable causes you feel strongly about, they've probably got charity shops that would welcome your stuff to sell.  

Whenever I gather a lot of stuff I don't need anymore but that's worth something to someone, I have a car boot sale and donate the money to my local animal shelter.

Answer 14

throw em in thr recycleing bin