Where to recycle VHS tapes

[gracie]

I am trying to recycle a large amount of old VHS tapes but the charity shops won't take them because they can't sell them and not all the recycling places will take them either.

If anyone has got any advice of where to take them or if anyone collects old VHS TV box sets I would be grateful if you could let me know

[robbin]

Bin. Blue bin.

[Penguin68]

I do know someone locally who shifted a lot of VHS tapes on either e-bay or gumtree (sorry, can't remember which) - but he did have to list (by title or category - bit of a bore) the tapes he had. If you just want to avoid waste (throwing stuff away which might be re-used) then setting a very low per tape price and requiring collection should help here.

[Alan Medic]

robbin Wrote:

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> Bin. Blue bin.

Not Blue Bin.

http://crns.org.uk/vhs-tape-recycling-unwinding-the-problem/

[robbin]

Interesting. I stand corrected!

Green bin then.

[tomskip]

Green bin means they just go to landfill, which is presumably what op wants to avoid?

[Sue]

If you've got a VHS of Zefirelli's over the top movie of La Traviata (early eighties), I'll buy it off you.

Long shot I know.

I binned mine because I couldn't watch the tragic ending, and now - being made of sterner stuff - find it's not available on DVD for less than around fifty quid :(

[spoiltdog]

You can Donate them to ALD Branch in Peckham /Penge would be going to a worthy cause

[Alan Medic]

Sue Wrote:

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> If you've got a VHS of Zefirelli's over the top

> movie of La Traviata (early eighties), I'll buy it

> off you.

>

> Long shot I know.

>

> I binned mine because I couldn't watch the tragic

> ending, and now - being made of sterner stuff -

> find it's not available on DVD for less than

> around fifty quid :(

Not THAT expensive Sue

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/La-Traviata-Verdi-DVD-2002-franco-zeffirelli-rare-/181966116766?hash=item2a5e06979e:g:bCkAAOSweuxWTGM2

[Alan Medic]

tomskip Wrote:

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> Green bin means they just go to landfill, which is

> presumably what op wants to avoid?

It is hard to avoid. Even if you can get rid of tapes you bought there are still the originally blank ones to consider. No one is going to want those.

[jenny pink]

Hi,

I second "ALD Life shops,which take videos 7 days a week,call 02073586871,Peckham branch,there are also other branches.

Jenny

[Alan Medic]

Do ALD take any tapes or just pre recorded ones?