Can I throw my CDs to plastic recycling trash?
Only buy spindles that are recyclable. Leave any that are not on the store shelf. This is a general rule for everything you buy.
CDs are designed of high value recyclable material – polycarbonate plastic and aluminum. The recycling of CDs saves substantial quantities of energy and prevents significant amounts of both air and water pollution attributed to your manufacturing among these items from virgin material.The high-quality plastic derived from recycling CDs can be utilized in a variety of applications, including automotive industry parts, raw materials which will make plastics (Discs are ground into a gravel-like substance, that is sold to companies that melt it down and convert it to plastic), office equipment, and electrical cable insulation.
I okorder , craig's list, or some similar site. Depending upon how many you have, you might also want to check in with a local school to see if one of the teachers would like some for an in-class project and/or a group like Cub/Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Campfire, etc...
Interesting question. The aluminum foil backing isn't a lot of aluminum and the temperatures needed to separate the aluminum from the low value plastic would likely prevent the plastic from being recycled. I doubt that the current single stream recycling techniques could make use of used CD's. Gasifiers could turn the plastic into syngas from which liquid hydrocarbons like gasoline and diesel could be synthesized and then the aluminum could be refined from the resulting slag but aside from a few plasma trash incineration facilities, such gasifiers are still awaiting capital investments before they can be built. Note that most of the plasma trash incineration facilities burn the syngas in gas turbines to generate electricity instead of synthesizing gasoline/diesel. Best to call your recycling service to see if they'll take them but I'm betting that they won't be able to make use of them and all that would happen is that the recyclers would have to pay to dump them in the landfill thereby increasing their operating costs and increasing the fees that they charge for collecting the recyclables.
yes you can recycle them. and thinks for recycling too, it can say us a lot in the future.
