Question of the day: what to do with old video cassettes and CDs

With the mass adoption of digital formats, video cassettes and CDs have become less relevant. As a rule, they dust on shelves for years. We found out what can be done with unnecessary cassettes and CDs in Moscow.







There are no special companies that are engaged in the disposal of old videotapes in Russia. Cases from video cassettes can be handed over to plastic reception points or mobile promotions for the reception of plastic, which are regularly held in Moscow.

Some craftsmen find use of old cassettes in the household. For example, they lay out front gardens from them or make fences for flower beds in the country, painting with multicolored oil paints.









Recycling CDs is also difficult, they are not accepted everywhere because of the unusual composition. Compact discs are made of a transparent material - polycarbonate, on which a thin layer of aluminum is applied, coated with transparent acrylic varnish to protect the disc.

They can be handed over to the reception points of electric clutter and some points of separate garbage collection. Among them is the community.Think green.at: m. Filevsky Park, Oleko Dundicha St., 35 (There is no clear schedule, before the trip you need to call tel. 8-925-200-73-59). If you collect more than 15 kg of disks (or other waste for recycling), the company organizes the removal.

You can take the discs to the company."The Sphere of Ecology"daily from 9:00 to 19:00 without lunch and weekends. The reception point is located on the territory Center of design and architecture "Artplay" on Yauza, behind the building 3, str. Lower Syromyatnaya, 10, telephone: 8 (495) 223-16-15. The second item is located at:m. Proletarskaya, Talalikhina str., 2/1, corp 7, Same work schedule.









Accept CDs and at some pointsCentre for Environmental Initiatives. Specifically, at the addresses:m. Proletarskaya, Talalikhina St., 2/1, Corp. 7 (works from 8:00 to 19:00, without lunch and weekends) and m.Paveletskaya, Kozhevnicheska Street, 1. Body details. 8 (495) 951-99-73.

Amateur electrochemists make electrodes from CDs. Unnecessary disks can be given to them for experiments. It is easy to find them, just go to thematic sites and forums.









If you approach the recycling of discs creatively, you can make them interesting and non-standard things, such as a candlestick, clock dial, photo frame, disco ball and even a coffee table, the legs of which entirely consist of several dozen CDs!

For art recyclingThe discs are accepted by designer Anna Podolina. The CD-ROM reception point at her request is installed in the Vorobyovy Gory eco-center.

On the Lobzik forum for tinkerers there is a special section dedicated to crafts from CDs. Some ideas can be found in other special forums. published

Author: Galina Malina

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Source: recyclemag.ru/article/vopros-dnya-chto-delat-so-staryimi-videokassetami-i-cd-diskami