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VHS tapes - recycling

  • 02-01-2008 3:59pm
    #1
    dogbytes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 ✭


    I'm throwing out about 50 old video tapes - am wondering what's the best way to dispose of them ? Can they be recycled ?


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  • #2
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,417 ✭✭✭Archeron


    I've never found any way of recycling them. However, if they are original tapes with films and stuff, I would imagine local charity shops like St Vincent de Paul or the like would take them. I know our local chairty shops are always happy to take VHS tapes to resell instore.


  • #3
    dogbytes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 ✭dogbytes


    Thanks Archeron, I was thinking it was a long shot alright. It's just stuff I recorded off TV from years ago that I can get on DVD now, so very obsolete.


  • #4
    ian_m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭ian_m


    Give your local authority a call. There might be a council bring centre that may take them. They take small electrical appliances at no cost.


  • #5
    slave1
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 19,482 Mod ✭✭✭✭slave1


    our local recycling centre - Athlone - have a bay for video tapes so I assume that means others may also


  • #6
    parsi
    Site Banned Posts: 5,904 ✭✭✭parsi


    I have a couple of dozen as well so I rang Raffeen in Cork which is a fairly progressive recycling site and they said that they'd accept them alright - for dumping. For a fee. So they've gone into my own bin.


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  • #7
    ian_m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭ian_m


    parsi wrote: »
    I have a couple of dozen as well so I rang Raffeen in Cork which is a fairly progressive recycling site and they said that they'd accept them alright - for dumping. For a fee. So they've gone into my own bin.

    That surely is a shame.


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