Unwanted ISP CDs

andy88_2

Can ISPs be held responsible for disposal costs of all the junk CDs they produce? Anybody that has a computer magazine subscription and occasionally buys others must have 50+ Tiscali CDs by now; fortunately the receipt of AOL ones by post has become rarer.

Any useful ideas, apart from coasters? We hung a few on trees to frighten off the birds from eating berries/fruit, but you only need so many.

Bogof_Babe

I get them in the post, personally addressed to me - and sometimes to my computer-illiterate husband. Goodness knows where they got our name/address from as I don't subscribe to anything like that.

They just go straight in the bin, but it seems an awful waste of resources, both natural and their own - and the poor postal workers. I wonder if "Not known at this address. Return to sender" might stem the flow.:mad:

juno

My daddy tried to play an AOL CD in his car CD plyer once. It was very funny, he came home and was convinced the CD player was broken.

IvanOpinion

The thing that pisses me off about Tiscali and the magazines that include their CDs is that they stick them to an internal page. No matter how carefully I try to remove the disk I always seem to rip a hole the page ... and usually on the back of the page is an interesting article that I never get to read properly.

And to all those other people that include stuff in the magazine ... I either remove it and leave it on the shelf in the shop or I open the magazine over a bin until it all falls out. I then go through it and remove and of those 'cardboard' type pages (that stop you flicking through the mag) and throw them in the bin as well.... never get read.

One other use I have found for ISP CDs is to use those pre-paid envelopes sent by various companies that continually send you junk mail ... they send me junk I send them junk.

Ivan