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Recycling Gone Wrong: The AOL Throne
igrp writes "Ever get annoyed with the seemingly endless stream of AOL CDs that make their way to your mailbox? Instead of just tossing them, you could collect about four thousand of them and build yourself an illuminated throne."
I'd like to shoot the twit who thought of sending those damn things through.
Mebbe a bit off-topic, but I found a great use for an AOL cd the other day. Throw the CD away, and use the DVD case for my caseless discs.
Hey man don't complain. At least AOL is sending you the CDs to your mailbox. Imagine M$ send copies of office and windows to your mailbox except you have to find a license somewhere.
I never did get that crazy TopSpeed doohickey from AOL to slap onto the top of my computer. That's probably why my computer's so slow, especailly when I'm using this great MyCoolWebSearchBotBarCentral that I was smart enough to install on my Internet.
The downside is the energy that it takes to do this. If we're burning more oil to recycle plastic than we could get new plastic out of same said oil, it'd better be worth the space of not tossing or stockpiling that plastic. If not, then there's waste.
If not now, when?
No, the cd's were recycled into a different use. The intended use was as an AOL cd. Possibly if the cds were somehow rewritten to contain different data you could say that they were reused. However, just because the cd's were melted down doesn't mean that they are used in a new product now (i.e., the throne that I can't see).
The CD's they send out sometimes come in metal protective tins. Throw out the AOL CD, and you can put 8 of your own CD's in them. Protects them in your computer bag.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Why does shit like this always get fucking modded up? It's not remotely funny after the billionth time the stupid joke is reused.
Recycling means taking a product, converting it to raw stock, and using the converted material towards a new product, i.e. a new product lifecycle for the same material.
I can reuse a milk carton to hold my used motor oil. The carton was meant to hold milk, now it's holding filthy oil. That's no different than reusing cd's as a chair. I didn't melt the milk jug down to base plastic, and make a special oil container. I didn't have to. Just like this guy didn't melt down the cd's, make a mold, and form a chair. (I assume, I can't see the page.)
If not now, when?
No. It doesn't.
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No, just fax me a copy of the CD please.