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CD and DVD Recycling

Recycling is a growing industry with major environmental and long-term economic benefits. Recycling reduces the amount of waste deposited in landfill and reduces the amount of energy used in manufacturing new materials, thus helping reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses and therefore helping avert climate change.

Recycling services are common in most urban and suburban areas and materials such as paper, cardboard, glass, plastic and clothes are easily recyclable. However, more complex products that use more than one material are more difficult to recycle. The music, movie and IT industries produce a lot of waste in the form of CDs and DVDs, but now these can also be recycled.

Eco-friendly CDs and DVDs

If you use a lot of blank CDs and DVDs, or if you use a CD or DVD Duplication or replication service, it is much better to buy from a company that has a minimal environmental impact in the first place. The Little Bazaar, in the UK, offers an eco-friendly CD and DVD packaging service, with robust cases made from biodegradable materials from sustainable sources. They will also offset your carbon emissions. Using a company such as this will reduce your impact from the word go.

But what about your wasted CDs and DVDs, cracked plastic cases and recordable media? You can recycle these through the following companies and not-for-profit organisations.

Recycle Your CDs and DVDs

Charity Shops. If you have a working CD or DVD of any format, you may want to consider giving it to your local charity shop. They can then re-sell it. This means that, not only have you avoided putting your CD or DVD into landfill, but you have also contributed funds to a charity.

London Recycling offer a wide range of recycling services, including specialist items such as CDs, batteries, toner cartridges and electronics. They recycle music CDs, writeable CDs and their plastic cases.

Keymood offer recycling of electronic and IT equipment and consumables, including CDs and DVDs.

Polymer Reprocessors are specialist recyclers of CDs and CD-ROMs. Their mission statement is "Recycling Solutions to the Media Industry, for the 21st Century. To supply a comprehensive, secure and environmentally friendly recycling service to the global media industry, with an objective of returning 100% of the material back into new applications. "

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