Question for the lounge -- are cd jewel cases recycleable?

[driver8]

I have about 400 cds and just put them all into two large binders. So, I have all of these jewel cases that I need to get rid of. What do I do with them?

[gmoney]

1. Keep 'em in the basement. Or donate them.

You can't sell them back without the cases.

If you feel you'll never need 'em, donate them to Goodwill or something, as I'm sure they get a lot of donations with broken cases, or could just sell 'em outright. Or maybe your local library could use them? Or check to see if there's a "Freecycle" board in your area -- someone will want 'em. At least the ones that are in good shape.

I think "re-use" outranks "recycle". But yeah, I'm guessing the plastic and paper are recyclable, but you might have to separate the paper from the plastic.

[pokerfan]

2. I reuse them

I use them whenever I burn a disc for someone. Granted, that's less and less these days as everyone is slowly moving to other forms of storage.

From Planet Green: http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/recycle-cd-jewel-cases.html">Reuse Unwanted Jewel Cases: Top 14 Ways

You could always burn a bunch of Linux discs and give them away at the bus station while wearing a sandwich board. They make great system rescue disks when a Windows box crashes.

[fishwax]

3. some kind of cool ideas in that link

:thumbsup:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. I think I just recently read that Waste Management wouldn't recycle them. Try greendisk.com.

I wish I could cite the article where they said WM wouldn't recycle jewel cases but it had to be recently in either the Chicago Trib, Red Eye, or Reader.

[hippywife]

5. That depends on your recycler and

what they have a market for. For example, our local recycler will only take #1 and #2 plastics if they are the bottle types with a neck and won't take any of the #5 and #6 types of plastics that are common food containers like for yogurt or cottage cheese. They don't have a secondary market for those types of plastics. This is in Tulsa, but the recycler in OKC apparently takes them all.

A lot of people think because it's plastic and marked as recyclable, any recycler will take them. I know I used to think that.