Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 11743
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2004/1/9-10 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:11743 Activity:nil
1/9     What have you done with your old 5.25" floppies?
        Or even your 3.5" ones?
        \_ coasters
        \_ Threw them away, keeping the ones that looked important.
           It's a shame you can't recycle floppies, CDs, or jewel cases in
           the normal way.
           \_Alameda county will take media: http://www.accrc.org/what.html
        \_ I installed a fdd in my linux box and I'm just about to
           dd image each floppy and keep all those images on disk
           or possible make a single CDROM of them all. then I'll
           destroy the floppies. They are not worth their weight.
           What's the best way to destroy them (w/o using the fdd)
           \_ Crack open the plastic shells, then cut the magnetic media into
              a long thin spiral.  Then thread the metal hubs onto string and
              make a mobile and hang it from the ceiling.  Oh sorry, I thought
              you said funnest.
        \_ They make a fun sleeve for a CD, if you can take the magnetic disk
           out and keep the plastic part surrounding it.
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www.accrc.org/what.html
We want everything you can plug in that you dont put food or clothes inside of. Bring us your tired, your old, your broken and short circuited masses yearning to calculate free! We want your computers, your monitors, your books, your software, your hard drives, your circuit boards, your games, your speakers, your everything. We take videotapes, CDs, books, disks, pictures, tapes, reel-to-reels, Any form of media. If your equipment is in working or easily repairable order, we will fix it and place it with a charity, non-profit, school, low-income or disabled individual somewhere on the planet Earth. If your equipment is not working and it cannot be repaired, we will disassemble it and send the base elements off to approved, environmentally friendly secondary recyclers. Cathode ray tubes will be smelted allowing the lead to be removed from the glass so that both can be recycled. Circuit boards will be ground up so that a number of different metal recovery processes can be used to reclaim the various nasty alloys that are in them. We do not ship our equipment overseas for the purposes of recycling. Pickups We can come to your company/house/school and pick up your old equipment. We charge either the total recycling fees for your equipment, or $500/truckload, whichever is greater. If you would like to schedule a pickup, please call us at least one week in advance at 510-528-4052.