I use the shiny side or the cd to stand my hot coffee mug on. It stops you getting coffee and heat stains on your computer desk or coffee table

http://www.nomoreaolcds.com/

New age shurikin, albeit with slightly less lethal consequences…

Ok, so basically small frisbies.

Dangle them on a piece of string over newly planted seedlings to scare off birds - they look prettier than scarecrows when they glint in the sunshine too.

“they glint in the sunshine too”

Yeah, it’s just like being at the disco..!!

It’s a shame they aren’t copper - because then you could use them like a halo around little seedlings to stop slugs approaching them.

You could use a couple of them vertically in the soil to make thin barriers between plants or sections of your veg plot instead.

You can, it seems, take old CDs to council waste sites - or at least, you can in Leeds. There is also a firm which re-cycles them, it’s in Lancashire somewhere I think, I can look out the name & address if you like.

Hi did u find out about the recycling place for cd disx?

101 Uses for AOL Disks

# Mini cutting board (great for the office or the car, use metal door for knife).
# Attach it to a ruler and presto! - you’ve got a fly swatter.
# Construct a life size replica of Stonehenge.
# At a restaurant, shove one under a wobbling table leg.
# Money clip (use metal door and discard the plastic case…the “rich nerd” look is IN this year).
# Eye patch (for one-eyed software pirates).
# Christmas ornaments (the more the merrier).
# Give them to young children to use as building blocks.
# Glue them to the bottom of the space shuttle and use them as re-entry burn tiles.
# Dentures (melt & form them into new teeth for grandma).
# Room dividers for hamsters.
# Drink coasters.
# Use multiple disks to create an ideal door stopper.
# Ice scraper.
# Bathroom tile.
# Bookmark.
# Mini frisbee.
# Air hockey puck.
# Dog chew toy.
# Dart board.
# Pooper scooper.
# Grill scraper.
# Use them for karate board-breaking demonstrations (save a tree).
# Wrist slicer - after receiving first AOL bill (use metal door).
# Conversation piece for coffee table.
# Destroy them - smash, burn, or run over to relieve stress.
# Light switch cover.
# Chinese throwing stars (tape 2 together).
# Clay pigeons for target practice.
# Greeting card (bind two together at one end).
# Halloween treat (give them away all night long).
# Bullet proof vest (arrange together in triple thickness).
# Firewood.
# Bird house.
# Paper weights.
# Pen holders (make a box without a top).
# Post it-notes holder.
# Refrigerator magnet (glue a magnet to the back).
# A very sturdy base for putting the motorcycle sidestand on when parking on soft surfaces.
# Keep ‘em in the trunk for extra traction in the snow.
# Solar Eclipse Glasses (open door and look through disk at the sun/moon –actually works).
# Placing one in each back pocket helps children who get paddled by the coach. This spreads the force to a wider area.
# Make an AOL disk & pasta casserole.
# Incense burners (put stick in hole of disk hub and light the incense.
# Bug Shield (glue a bunch to the front of your car’s hood).
# Put them on car windshields at the mall (along with this list).
# Melt the plastic of the disks into a giant sculpture.
# Hand them out as party favors.
# Hidden/spare key holder (crack open 1 side, insert key and then place near door. Completely safe…who would want an AOL disk?)
# Vertical blinds.
# Be an AOL diskette surgeon and dissect a diskette.
# Bench press weights (I can press 120).
# Grind ‘em up and refertilize the front lawn.
# The new “Domino’s stuffed-crust pizza” filling.
# Tell the kids to leave warm milk & AOL disks for Santa.
# Brake shoes.
# House insulation.
# Recycle them for the scrap metal.
# Kitchen tile for Bill Gates’ new mansion in Seatle (walk all over the competition)
# Hockey Puck.
# Add water and special plant life to make a Chia-Disk.
# Noise maker for your bike spokes (why damage your valuable baseball cards).
# Put one on a leash and drag it along as you walk…makes the perfect pet.
# Poker chips.
# Baseball practice (throw them up in the air and hit them with the bat).
# Keychain (Put a key ring through one of the writeprotect holes and you’ve got a snappy executive bathroom keychain for the office).
# Mail to 10 friends-start an AOL chain-letter (add a disk with each link).
# Earmuffs (glue some fur on one side, then attach a U-shaped piece of bent coathanger to both disks).
# Grind them up to make fake snow.
# Earrings (put loop into write-protect hole).
# Dental floss (use actual disk).
# Use them for zipper pulls (instead of ski lift tickets).
# When your collection of disks reaches 52, use them for a deck of cards.
# Use them to fill potholes.
# Hood ornament.
# Snow blower replacement blades.
# Put them in your shirt pocket to make you look smart.
# Make two stacks of 10 and use them as heels for platform shoes.
# Rubik’s cube case (make into box).
# Shipping material (keeps your photos from being bent in the mail).
# Protect your table from burns caused by hot pots and pans.
# Snack trays (great for holding hors d’oeuvres at parties).
# Give them as stocking stuffers to all those people who piss you off.
# Fly paper (use actual disk and put string through middle, hang 2″ apart and apply honey to disks).
# Pocket protector
# They make a *dandy* addition to a #$*+&% neighbor’s back yard. Better yet, get them to actually install it on their computer.
# Use them as elbow and knee pads.
# Wax scraper for snowboards.
# Use them to decorate your aquarium and create Computer City underwater.
# Tape a few together and use them as a mouse pad.
# Collect a large mass and detonate a supernova.
# A wind clacker (similar to a wind chime).
# Soap dish (remove metal to prevent rusting).
# Row markers for your vegetable garden. (carrots, beans, peas….)
# Makes the perfect dance floor for your ant colony.
# Bread roller (use actual disks and put rod through center-use about 100).
# Hot glue gun resting/protecting pad.
# Baby mobile.
# Fence (may need a few thousand).
# Toe tags for mortuaries. Great for identifying dead computer nerds.
# Wonderbra inserts for that Madonna-techno look.

Wow, awesome! :)

-louisa

A good way to keep them out of landfill is to send them to a company that recycles them (and has recently won an Environmental Business of the Year award) although you do have to pay postage. They recycle both the jewel case and the disc itself. The case is made into a high quality polystyrene pellet that can be used in making new packaging, insulation foam or artificial wood, and the disc is made into a polycarbonate that has a number of uses, including as part of alarm boxes and motorway traffic lenses.
The company is Polymer Reprocessors Ltd, Peninsula Business Park, Reeds Lane, Moreton, Wirral, Cheshire CH46 1DW. I’m not connected with them, but I have just discovered them and am about to send all my old CDs off to them!

Just put them on an old CD spindle from the CD spindle recycling article.

Keep them and stick them on your wall in your bedroom with the shiny side up. They glint in the sunlite and its actually quite nice…

Use Cd’s to make Timmy the CD Turtle Fridge Magnet @ http://www.allfreecrafts.com/kids/turtle-cd.shtml.

OR

CD Easter Bunny Chalkboard @ http://www.allfreecrafts.com/easter/recycled-cd-memo-bunny.shtml

Knit a coaster cover and insert CD: http://www.frugalhais.com/scripts/CDCoaster.asp

AhHH! Mistake in link. Try this: http://www.frugalhaus.com/scripts/CDCoaster.asp

Make a mosiac out of them.

If you’re having a party, you can use them as invitations. Write down locations, names, phone numbers, etc. on the shiny part with a permanent marker (might need a few layers of the color)

use some sick tack, and arrange them on the wall shiny side out…makes an awesome mirror.

Stick them on the sides of a cardboard box to use as wheels and let the kids play in their new toy car!

My kids prefer a box to the real toys anyway!

They also make a good hand spindle, together with a knitting needle or a length of dowling.
Then all you need is some fleece to go with it.

All that sounds wonderful about hanging them in trees…if you are white trash. in fact they seem to be ahead of the curve, old car on the lawn, fridge in the driveway, and cds hanging from the trees. Come on people recycle them for real. send them to a recycling facility and let the professionals handle it.

you could try this crowd in Australia, Ecodisc, http://discstation.blogspot.com/

looks like they have just got a CD recycling program up and running

some other options would be nice, maybe more realistic and acheivable, not just useing them for toys and decorations…..

you CAN make a disco ball out of them. I saw it @tree hugger. YOu have to heat them and then cu out little squares and then glue those to a styrofoam ball.

Please may I have them? If so You can send them to 304 North Allumbaugh Apt336 Boise ID 83704. Thanks