Wed 18 Oct 2006
With the mass move to digital cameras these days, the old cameras have become as obsolete as the film canisters.
Nicola Dickinson has emailed us on this very subject - how can the cameras themselves be recycled? Or, I guess, reused?
A lot of old electronics (like phones and computers) are collected for charity and shipped overseas but I don’t know if this would be happening with cameras too because they don’t seem as “essential” (inverted commas because the others aren’t really essential in most situations) and they’re useless without the film and developing infrastructure etc.
So any ideas on how they can avoid being landfill?
(Photo by AAD)





Cadan ap Tomos
October 23rd, 2006 at 10:38 am
lots of people, like my uncle, collect old cameras. if you have any spare, please send a photo along with details to cdhaptomos@hotmail.com and i willl get back to you.
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adam f
October 30th, 2006 at 10:20 am
disposable cameras usually have really good batteries in them, still 90% charged. you can pick them up at friendly photo developers. you have to be careful prying them apart (use a screwdriver) as they contain chunky capacitors for the flash, which can give you a high voltage shock. so go carefully on the first few until you figure out the safest way to open them.
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Al
November 16th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
You could hope that this:
http://www.side.com/
eventaully becomes a real product
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Rachel
December 4th, 2006 at 8:37 pm
If there is a secondary school or college near you that teaches photography, they probably could use them. Even if they are too obsolete to be of use to the students, most schools that teach photography use old cameras for demonstrations and the like.
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Amanda Kerik
December 30th, 2006 at 8:02 pm
Load them up with film and hand them to kids. Let them take pictures of whatever they want. Develop the film - you’ll be amazed at some of the shots.
Without the film they can be play cameras.
Offer them on your local freecycle ( http://www.freecycle.org/ ) or give them to your local foodbank.
I’m sure someone you know would love to take one apart to find out how they work.
I read somewhere that a guy grabbed 20+ of these, managed to set the flashes on a timer / delay and dressed up for Hallowe’en as the “Paparazzi”
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Letitia Hayward
December 9th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
How can I recycle a digital camera?
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Gulia
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Exibit them as decorative items, or just store. Someday they will be antique and cost more, that what you bought them for.
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mS. sAosiN_dhEL
September 25th, 2008 at 7:17 am
well 4 me if u hav ur used cameras,just give it to me so that i could recycled it into a new one!
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mS. sAosiN_dhEL
September 25th, 2008 at 7:18 am
cameras should be thrown away if its not functioning at all
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