VHS recycling

[arethinn]

Does anyone have any ideas for recycling, or otherwise environmentally-consciously disposing of, tons and tons of VHS cassettes? We have a bunch of outmoded accounting course tapes at work, among other things, and I stridently refuse to simply throw them away. The TV center doesn't want them back for re-use. We tried offering them to the staff to take for free to tape over, and had no takers. Sometime last summer there was a big truck parked in the quad which had some kind of huge shredder, and we were given to understand that the resulting plastic mess was not simply discarded but actually destined for some kind of recycling. If true, I have no idea how to get such a thing to happen at my behest.

Any non-trash suggestions?

Comments

[azraelgrrl.livejournal.com]

Try freecycle.org It's an enviromental way of getting rid of unwanted non-recyclables by finding people on the net who want them.It was started by a recycling plant manager to get rid of the stuff they couldn't actually recycle -old computers etc.It's neat to look into you can get or give away anything.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, someone on my flist just randomly mentioned Freecycle today too, even though I've never heard her do so before. Looks cool. :)