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re-old back ups
joe134
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Hi, Any advice appreciated on the best way to dispose of old cd back ups.?They tend to mount up.
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I have a CD and document shredder.0
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There's a firm near Liverpool that recycles CDs, but it involves postage or carriage to get them there.
Any reason they can't go in the bin with the other household rubbish?
Confidential data? Is anyone going to trawl through the council's dump site looking for a CD from which to get some data?
If you want to render the CDs unusable, break them or take a suitable tool and make a deep scratch across the surface.0 -
I will smash them as you say, did that with old hard drive.pretty tough though.:beer:There's a firm near Liverpool that recycles CDs, but it involves postage or carriage to get them there.
Any reason they can't go in the bin with the other household rubbish?
Confidential data? Is anyone going to trawl through the council's dump site looking for a CD from which to get some data?
If you want to render the CDs unusable, break them or take a suitable tool and make a deep scratch across the surface.0 -
They don't do well in a microwave :rotfl:0
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Use a strong pair of scissors to snip them into a few pieces.0
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on a £100 shop you might on average get 70 items save
10p per product = £7 a week ~ £28 a month
20p per product = £14 a week ~ £56 a month
30p per product = £21 a week ~ £84 a month (or in other words one weeks shoping at the new price)0 -
Scissors or leave them in bleach overnight should (I think) render them practically unusable. Just wear shoes and stand on them to crush them I would say.Feb 2012 - onwards MF achieved
September 2016 - Back into clearing a mortgage - Was due to be paid off in 32 years in March 2047 -
April 2018 down to 28.00 months vs 30.04 months at normal payment.
Predicted mortgage clearing 03/2047 - now looking at 02/2045
Aims: 1) To pay off mortgage within 20 years - 20370 -
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Thanks all.Used a pair of croppers,they will nick anything from the bin, and I don,t mean thieves, I mean data scroungers.:beer: mostly government ones.1984Maplin used to sell a cheap CD Punch, which punches a hole through the TOC area, making it unreadable.
Unfortunately discontinued there but you can probably get them elsewhere.0
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