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Old discs and jewel cases
Hello biz friends….
For the past few years we’ve been archiving all projects and such to hard drives.
But prior to that (before media was so cheap) we archived everything to data DVDs (and some even to CDs before that). I recently got tired of having those discs taking up literally yards and yards of shelf space (about 15 years worth of projects), so I bought some hard drives and any time that my editor had any down time his mandate was to dump all the DVD data to the drives. Now, 99.99% of this is data that will never ever ever need to see the light of day again… but I never get rid of anything, and hey… you just never know. This is the same reason I have cans and cans of many thousands of feet of 35mm negatives taking up space… but that’s a different problem.
Well, my editor has finally finished his data dump. It’s a good thing, because I think if there were any more he would have killed me (largely because his CPU and thus his DVD drive are in a different room than his edit suite, so there was lots of walking back and forth).
Having that done is a great thing… but results in a new problem….
I now have a good part of a room filled with DVDs and jewel cases. There are hundreds and hundreds of them. Maybe thousands.
Do I just chunk ’em? A few trips to the dumpster? Sure, some people will say “Just recycle them”… but where? That’s easier said than done. Or is it even worth it?
I’d just like them out of here… although preferably in an environmentally friendly manner.
Any ideas?
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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You could try the CD Recycle Center, you would have to ship it though. Just click the “Recycle Now” link
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.
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