Recycling CD's / DVD's

MouldyOldDough

I have read that DVD's and CD's contain rare metals and gold - and take over 1million years to biodegrade

Yet - no local councils accept them for recycling

They are recycleable but are not collected

Why would this be ?

I have a large number of DATA DVD's /CD's to dispose of and they will probably end up in landfill

Ectophile

Pressed CDs are plastic and aluminium.  Some early CD-R discs did actually have silver and/or gold in them.  But most use chemical dyes now.

I suspect the problem is that the cost of recycling them is more than the materials are worth.

MouldyOldDough

Ectophile said:

Pressed CDs are plastic and aluminium.  Some early CD-R discs did actually have silver and/or gold in them.  But most use chemical dyes now.

I suspect the problem is that the cost of recycling them is more than the materials are worth.

That could be said of many items