Can CDs Be Recycled?

An anonymous reader asks: "I was recently doing a closet-cleaning and came across literally hundreds of old software CDs that are no longer usable — both manufactured CDs and CD-Rs. Note that by 'not usable', I mean that many of them simply couldn't be read anymore, possibly due to the fact that they'd been stored rather ineptly (no, I wasn't responsible for how they were stored). It seems wrong to just throw them out, but are there other things that can be done with them that will allow their raw materials to be reused in some way?Is it possible to reclaim CDs for raw materials?"

Comments

Re:Dunno about Europe.

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet those employees were planning on a little ebay 're-use' themselves. Your dumpster-diving is probably putting a dent in their profits, that's why they complain.

Re:Dunno about Europe.

[Corporate Troll]

You may have a point there... but how much do a P-IV bring these days on eBay? Not that much, I guess.

google

[blackjackshellac]

Surely searching for 'cd recycling' would have resulted in an answer to this question.