The "Q" section of the Sunday Chicago Tribune frequently provides me with blog fodder. It's likely to be the quirky things in life, but those are the things that catch my attention these days. (shrugs)
One of the cover stories was about what to do with CDs that you receive as part of an ad campaign, or a purchase. Did you know that one of the disposable diaper companies provided a CD with lullabies as part of a promotion? Probably the greatest source of unwanted CDs is the blanket mailing sent out by AOL. Everyone has received at least one of these. I think our household has had about 20 of them
If you are tired of receiving those mailers, you can call 800-466-5463 and ask to be removed from the AOL disc list. Or, if you'd like a chance to tweak AOL's tail, you can go to www.nomoreaolcds.com The site's organizers are trying to collect a million AOL CDs to truck them back to company headquarters.
btw.....if you are going to dispose of CDs, put them in the garbage. CDs, DVDs and CDroms can't be recycled through the usual city programs. If you really want to recyle them, go to www.greendisk.com Green Disk recycles CDs for large companies, but they will accept them in smaller amounts. Download a shipping form, and send your CDs off to them.
Hmmmm....it seems I have a couple of really bad Christmas CDs I could donate....
Comments (2)
...or, if you want to get rid of aol cd's, ask your local school's art department or design/tech department...cd's are brilliant for making mobiles, suits of armour, rear wheels on a dragster (several stuck together), jewellry and sometimes they are fun to whatch a kid's imagination run riot with :^)...
Posted by billy | August 26, 2003 1:09 PM
Posted on August 26, 2003 13:09
I like the idea of trucking all the AOL disks back to corporate! Awesome!
Posted by Allison | August 27, 2003 3:10 PM
Posted on August 27, 2003 15:10