Saturday, September 24, 2016

Old CDs recycled into valuable plastic



When I first saw this article about recycling CDs (polycarbonate polymers), I was hopeful that we would get a new lab for material science. The above diagram, however, isn't exactly a step-by-step procedure.

And the full text of the article isn't available without a subscription.

I do appreciate the attempts to further our recycling options for plastics, however, as I find myself throwing out a lot of CDs because they can't easily be recycled in single-stream recycling programs.

Of course, there are other options than throwing the CDs out...



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