Why Repair?

Why Repair Your Discs?

We all like to feel warm and fuzzy inside when we help the environment. We even feel better when we help our wallet. Repairing damaged discs saves them from being unnecessarily thrown away and ending up in a landfill. Also the savings of repairing a discs instead of replacing it is incomparable. Sometimes your discs might not be replaceable, maybe you have family photos on a scratched CD or DVD. Repairing those discs can be priceless.

eWaste FACT- Many electronic materials have harmful materials like lead that if not disposed of properly, can lead to contamination of landfills or water supply. Some states have environmental laws that prevent local trash companies from picking up old tv's, computer monitors or other eWaste. Over 4 million computer disks are thrown away each day, with a degrading time of over 500 years. That is 500,000,000 disks in landfills each year. eWaste is a growing problem because of the constant updating of technology. Usually most eWaste is disposed of before it stops working!

Quoted from http://eco-safe.com/green/tips

Here are some more fun fact courtesy of WorldWatch Institute: If properly stored and handled, most CDs and DVDs will last for decades, and probably centuries. Depending on their condition, unwanted discs can be reused or recycled instead of thrown away, saving energy and valuable resources.

• The entire process of encoding music onto a CD takes only about 5-10 seconds. A high-pressure stamper embeds the digital information into tiny indentations on a polycarbonate plastic blank, which is later coated with metal.
• In 2000, more than 700 compact disc factories were operating worldwide.
• When CDs were first introduced in the United States in 1983, 800,000 discs were sold. By 1990, this number had grown to close to 1 billion.
• Between 1983 and 1996, the average price of a music CD in the U.S. fell by more than 40 percent.
• The European market for music CDs is expanding rapidly, with almost 2.9 billion compact discs produced in Western Europe in 1998.
• Each month, more than 45 tons of CDs become obsolete—outdated, useless, or unwanted.
• Each year, more than 55 million boxes of software go to landfills and incinerators, and people throw away millions of music CDs.

Challenge Yourself and Others: Organize a CD/DVD reuse event. Set up a disc swap day or create a library devoted to CD/DVDsharing. For unwanted discs, organize a recycling collection at a local school or business for a community service or fundraising project.