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[MyDigitalpoint]

Doing an online research for a non-green related topic, I came across with this site, the CD Recycling Center of America

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An organization to help save the Earth:
The Compact Disc Recycling Center was founded in 2006 to provide consumers and companies education, awareness, and options for easy CD and DVD recycling. Their website offers a range of articles, research, products and member profiles of the growing number of supporters and members, to be applauded by the recycling conscious good people of the earth.
You can help us by spreading the word, study this website, also direct as many people as you can here. Please forward our information via email to all you can to help drive this campaign. 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.

More information here, http://cdrecyclingcenter.org

This site made me aware of the many CDs I often see thrown anywhere down the streets and made me think what we are doing to recycle them.

I have a pile of useless CDs at home just using space, and what about you?

[Sandra Piddock]

<sub>If you grow soft fruits such as strawberries, cherries or other berries, use old CDs as bird scarers. Hang them from the branches of trees and shrubs, and as they move and catch the light, they'll scare the birds away and stop them from eating your juicy fruits.

I'm not very craft oriented these days - arthritis in the hands stops me doing a lot of things - but a friend of mine makes coasters from old CDs. She sticks them onto old cork tiles, then paints a design on the cork, and seals it with a coat of clear varnish. She sells them at car boot sales.</sub>

[btatro]

Sandra Piddock, on 21 April 2012 - 12:56 PM, said:

<sub>If you grow soft fruits such as strawberries, cherries or other berries, use old CDs as bird scarers. Hang them from the branches of trees and shrubs, and as they move and catch the light, they'll scare the birds away and stop them from eating your juicy fruits.

I'm not very craft oriented these days - arthritis in the hands stops me doing a lot of things - but a friend of mine makes coasters from old CDs. She sticks them onto old cork tiles, then paints a design on the cork, and seals it with a coat of clear varnish. She sells them at car boot sales.</sub>

Thank you Sandra!!! I live in an upstairs apartment and have had an issue with doves trying to next on top of the air conditioner that hangs on the wall on my balcony. I put some aluminum foil there, but it did not last. CD's are an awesome idea. I have some hooks that  I will be able to hang them from with string. Hopefully the movement and light reflections will be enough to scare them and keep them away!

[mariaandrea]

That CD Recycling Center website is a good resource. When I did a search for CD recycling in my area on the website it came up with one place to mail old CDs to in California (I'm in Washington), but then it seems like it's still a fairly new site and still growing.

But that's ok, because I make coasters and wall art with old CDs and I string them up in lines and hang them on the balcony to keep birds away from the garden containers. And finally, sometimes I just have too many (not for a while, but I used to) and I'd just post a message to freecycle.org and never had any problem finding people who wanted them enough to come to my place and get them. That's the beauty of freecycle - lots of people committed to keeping things out of landfills who can always find a use for the stuff you don't want any more. Including old CDs

[dconklin]

Sandra Piddock, on 21 April 2012 - 12:56 PM, said:

<sub>If you grow soft fruits such as strawberries, cherries or other berries, use old CDs as bird scarers. Hang them from the branches of trees and shrubs, and as they move and catch the light, they'll scare the birds away and stop them from eating your juicy fruits.

I'm not very craft oriented these days - arthritis in the hands stops me doing a lot of things - but a friend of mine makes coasters from old CDs. She sticks them onto old cork tiles, then paints a design on the cork, and seals it with a coat of clear varnish. She sells them at car boot sales.</sub>

I have made coasters out of CDs too! I don't make many as we do not have a ton of them.  We also try to be careful with our CDs.  I never thought to paint and sell the coasters tho, just did it for around here.  You can also crochet around them.

I didn't know the CDs would scare the birds, interesting idea.  We don't really have a problem with the birds tho.  They are in the trees  here, but they do not often land into the yard to eat the berries.  They are quick when they land, we have too many wild cats in the neighborhood to have birds in the yard.

[zararina]

I had seen some home decors made from CD's and I had even seen a dress decorated by CD's. Being creative can be used to recycled CDs and maybe on some school projects too.
I have not bought any CD for  more than 6 years already as I just listen to MP3 or radio for music. And for movies, I just rent, borrow from friends or  just watch old movies on TV.

[MakingCents]

I've seen the coasters out of CD's too.  I also had a friend who made some wall mosaic from old CD's but I'm not sure exactly what they did.  Repurposing CD's can be a really good thing to do.

[4leafclover]

Sandra Piddock, on 21 April 2012 - 12:56 PM, said:

<sub>If you grow soft fruits such as strawberries, cherries or other berries, use old CDs as bird scarers. Hang them from the branches of trees and shrubs, and as they move and catch the light, they'll scare the birds away and stop them from eating your juicy fruits.

I'm not very craft oriented these days - arthritis in the hands stops me doing a lot of things - but a friend of mine makes coasters from old CDs. She sticks them onto old cork tiles, then paints a design on the cork, and seals it with a coat of clear varnish. She sells them at car boot sales.</sub>

I love this idea! :) Let me try this one myself. :) I honestly have tons of CD collections from movies to songs and I honestly felt bad letting go of them but I really do need to do so because I have soft copies of them... but then I just realized this can be a part of downsizing, what do you guys think?

[joeldgreat]

I've given our old CD's to one of my friend who converts them into beautiful decorations. But that's all I can do. I just hope that we could have such recycling centers here in our country so that we really get rid of those old cd's for good without hurting our environment.

[katniss]

I'm having a clear out and I'm getting rid of a pile of CD's. They're not actual albums or anything so I can't give them to charity shops. They're just blank ones that I put stuff on myself over the years and they're all scratched and useless now. to hang them as bird scarers is a good idea.

As for recycling they are made from polycarbonate and its not one of the main recycleables.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Hold a nail over an open flame with pliers, and "melt" a hole into the cd at both ends. Bells can be added to
make a cascading wind-chime.

[aphil]

I think recycling cds and dvds is a good idea because we all accumulate so many of them. This is a good resource. Thanks for sharing.

[JBMedia]

Sandra Piddock, on 21 April 2012 - 12:56 PM, said:

<sub>If you grow soft fruits such as strawberries, cherries or other berries, use old CDs as bird scarers. Hang them from the branches of trees and shrubs, and as they move and catch the light, they'll scare the birds away and stop them from eating your juicy fruits.

I'm not very craft oriented these days - arthritis in the hands stops me doing a lot of things - but a friend of mine makes coasters from old CDs. She sticks them onto old cork tiles, then paints a design on the cork, and seals it with a coat of clear varnish. She sells them at car boot sales.</sub>

That's very interesting!! Definitely not something I would of ever considered doing. But I can see how it would most definitely work! I will have to give this a shot.

As for the rest of my useless CD's, maybe I should just go ahead and recycle them as well. I had no idea there was an option out there for this, as I myself have also just been tossing them down the trash chute. Definitely something I will have to partake in.

Thanks for all the information.

[steph84]

I like to swap my old CDs online at swap.com. You get to trade them for books, video games or DVDs. The site is free to use, but you do have to pay shipping for your swaps. If you don't want to wait for people to request what you have then I suggest donating them to your local thrift store or to the Good Will.

[Pat]

To recycle some of the many CD's I have I have attached them to the wall with double sided tape to act as mirrors.

Some good ideas to recycle some cd's.

http://consumerist.c...le-old-cds.html


Have some fun.

[ACSAPA]

Thanks for the share Pat, that article linked to a ton of Curbly articles for making decorative housewares from salvaged items, so I got distracted and kept clicking more links. I'm totally bookmarking that site.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Windchimes or partial curtains.

[SheforACT]

You have a few options for recycling your CDs. Depending on where you live, you may also be able to find other, more local donation centers. i recycled my old CDs into a photo frame.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Not particularly related to cd's but tons of good ideas here; recycling and otherwise.
https://www.bobvila....as#.WFCZrBsrI2w


I love #7
http://www.momsandcr...to-do-with-cds/

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Roofing!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow

http://www.diys.com/...our-old-discs/#

More info here-stunning.
http://www.instructa...oofing-Concept/