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Recycling Gone Wrong: The AOL Throne

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the off-with-their-members dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Recycled? by dead+sun · · Score: 3, Insightful
    There are benefits to recycling though. First, it delays the exhaustion of virgin materials in the case of non-renewable resources. Second, it reduces the amount of waste that's produced.

    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.

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  2. Re:Miss those floppies.. by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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