On Mar 23, 11:17=A0am, Jerri <Jerri.LaPo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mar 22, 11:32 pm, mo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Mordechai T.
>
> Abzug) wrote:
> > I've heard good things about GreenDisk.
> > =A0http://www.greendisk.com/gdsite/Default.aspx
> > They list VHS in their list of items they'll recycle.
> > =A0http://www.greendisk.com/Pop-ups/Items-to-dispose-of.html
> > Note: they claim to wipe all media sent to them. =A0Personally, I
don't
> > care about wiping TV recordings and commercially-produced media,
> > anyway. =A0However, I would not release media with sensitive or
personal=
> > data (e.g. financial records, medical records, personal photos)
> > without wiping the media myself, or even physically destroying the
> > media.
>
> At $7/box for disposal by GreenDisk, it would behoove me to talk to my
> local recycling folks. Our city curbside recycling has strict limits
> on what it will handle. The volunteer service has more liberal
> guidelines, and the time has come to find out how liberal those
> guidelines are ... elsewise, these boxes of VHS tapes are going to go
> into a corner of my garage, to be dealt with by my heirs in the
> distant future ... along with all the printers, scanners, monitors and
> cpus I can't afford to pay to have recycled at this time.
> Jerri [still wishing for a Powerball Miracle!]
Sorry I'm joining the conversation late.
I've had a lot of good luck unloading things that I thought were
landfill-bound using Freecycle. http://www.freecycle.org/
to find a
group near you and join its Yahoo list. Then send the group an email
listing the things you have that you want to give away, and see if
anyone wants them. You can either arrange a time for the recipient to
come and get them (I put the stuff out on the porch at the proper
time) or arrange to meet in a public place if you're antsy about them
coming by the house.
Donna
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