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SteveDallas · 01-29-2004, 10:07 AM

Many of you may have heard about attempts to sell disposable DVDs. As with the ill-fated Divx scheme Circuit City tried to foist on us back in the late 90s, environmentalists have complained about the problems with just tossing the DVD discs.

My question is: How is this different from tossing CD-Rs? I don't know about the rest of you, but at this point in time, I'm going through CD-R discs about the same way I was going through floppies back in the early 90s: an easy way to move stuff between 2 computers, usually resulting in a temporary disc that I didn't bother to label or hang on to. If throwing out DVDs is a concern, why is throwing out CD-Rs not? (Or is it, and I just haven't heard about it?)

01-29-2004, 10:07 AM	#1
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Environmental impact: disposable DVDs vs. CD-R Many of you may have heard about attempts to sell disposable DVDs. As with the ill-fated Divx scheme Circuit City tried to foist on us back in the late 90s, environmentalists have complained about the problems with just tossing the DVD discs. My question is: How is this different from tossing CD-Rs? I don't know about the rest of you, but at this point in time, I'm going through CD-R discs about the same way I was going through floppies back in the early 90s: an easy way to move stuff between 2 computers, usually resulting in a temporary disc that I didn't bother to label or hang on to. If throwing out DVDs is a concern, why is throwing out CD-Rs not? (Or is it, and I just haven't heard about it?)