Can I throw CD-ROM discs in a bin at home?

FoxEye · 27 Jul 2017 at 16:46

MatsyLR said:
Put them all in a bin liner, get on the bus, leave them on the bus when you get off.

Then wait for the police to turn up and do a controlled explosion

HecFam · 27 Jul 2017 at 16:47

I'd personally keep them for another 40-50 years and sell them as antiques.

Thekwango · 27 Jul 2017 at 16:55

ttaskmaster said:
Sigh... OCUK funny people. No-one ever replies seriously....

Robin Scott explains what you should correctly do with unwanted CDs in this video:

you could always smash them into dust with a well placed strike from a quarter staff?!

fatiain · 27 Jul 2017 at 17:06

Tie them to a bit of string and glue some feathers on them and put them on Etsy as "Digital Dreamcatchers"?

tomparker95 · 27 Jul 2017 at 17:17

If they have any U2 or coldplay on them they must be disposed of securely in a waste management centre. If not, then a general bin will do

ttaskmaster · 27 Jul 2017 at 17:17

Thekwango said:
you could always smash them into dust with a well placed strike from a quarter staff?!

I'd not want to risk scratching the wood finish...

Haggisman · 27 Jul 2017 at 18:34

MatsyLR said:
Put them all in a bin liner, get on the bus, leave them on the bus when you get off.

I doubt they're so confidential that the OP needs to use government approved data disposal methods...

NoobCannon · 27 Jul 2017 at 19:34

Id suggest putting them singularly in plastic bags and leaving one on a street corner each week till someone posts about it in gd

MookJong · 27 Jul 2017 at 19:45

While bored working on my placement year at Uni a lad in the next office of the company I was posted at (who did ninjutsu) told me you could make ninja stars from CDs. This was 1998 and writing CDs was full of peril and many a coaster was produced when the CD wouldn't close its session correctly.

Anyway I marked out a few ninja star designs and cut them out with scissors. I was in the office on my own this day and so once cut out I decided to take them for a spin...excuse the pun. I was absolutely amazed how well they flew and was hurling the, up and down the office. Crawling under a desk to retrieve one I popped my head back up to find a senior manager standing in in the door grinning. I have no idea if he had been watching me, but I did my best to pretend to have been sorting out some cables. It was never mentioned and I'd like to think he went on to make his own ninja stars.

So don't bin them, make ninja stars, the original office fidget spinners in the days before PC culture and health and safety.

Begbie · 27 Jul 2017 at 19:49

MookJong said:
While bored working on my placement year at Uni a lad in the next office of the company I was posted at (who did ninjutsu) told me you could make ninja stars from CDs. This was 1998 and writing CDs was full of peril and many a coaster was produced when the CD wouldn't close its session correctly.

Anyway I marked out a few ninja star designs and cut them out with scissors. I was in the office on my own this day and so once cut out I decided to take them for a spin...excuse the pun. I was absolutely amazed how well they flew and was hurling the, up and down the office. Crawling under a desk to retrieve one I popped my head back up to find a senior manager standing in in the door grinning. I have no idea if he had been watching me, but I did my best to pretend to have been sorting out some cables. It was never mentioned and I'd like to think he went on to make his own ninja stars.

So don't bin them, make ninja stars, the original office fidget spinners in the days before PC culture and health and safety.

Can't wait for saturday!

Sliver · 27 Jul 2017 at 19:53

I just stick mine and other dodgy stuff in a black bin liner. The garbage men always dispose of them for me. Easy.

HoneyBadger · 27 Jul 2017 at 19:58

Sliver said:
I just stick mine and other dodgy stuff in a black bin liner. The garbage men always dispose of them for me. Easy.

This, quite surprised anyone would do anything else!

robj20 · 27 Jul 2017 at 20:07

I've only ever just thrown them in the plastic recycling bin. Probably still will as well.

LeMson · 28 Jul 2017 at 01:08

Use the neighbours bins for your rubbish, they'll be more room in your bins for your rubbish then.

hyperseven · 28 Jul 2017 at 02:22

If you do then the local council will summon this Cenobite to sort you out

RoboCod · 28 Jul 2017 at 07:45

Acid bath. It's the only way.

Vern1961 · 28 Jul 2017 at 08:12

If it's your backed up pron, chucked out in a fit of guilt be aware that Teresa May has now decreed all CD and DVD ROMS found in rubbish are to be forensically analyzed and on conviction the owner will get 5 years in stir with a "special" bunkie.

d_brennen · 28 Jul 2017 at 08:13

Do your bit for global warming and stick them to your roof. The reflected heat might save an ant in Africa

dcsarge · 28 Jul 2017 at 08:57

Use them them shiney side out to make a top hat and show other conspiracy nuts how inferior their tin foil head protection and social status is.

Cleisthenes · 28 Jul 2017 at 09:07

FoxEye said:
If everyone did that, the resulting environmental catastrophe would be like 911 x 1000. We would all have to live underground.

9/11 x 1000? You mean.... Yes, 911,000.