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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.
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!
No. It doesn't.
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No, just fax me a copy of the CD please.