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What can be done with the old VHS and music tapes, I have so many and they need to go...

I dont really want to send them to landfill if something else can be done with them....recyling is not that simple.....or is it ?

Any suggestions ?


 
Posted : 07/03/2011 9:44 am
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Christmas decorations.


 
Posted : 07/03/2011 9:53 am
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Give them to a couple of kids to play with and once they have pulled all the tape out recycle the plastic 🙂


 
Posted : 07/03/2011 9:54 am
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Or - for audio tapes, assuming you have access to an old player - you could extract all the tape and splice it together or overlay it somehow in weird ways and then make some krrrazy noises.


 
Posted : 07/03/2011 9:56 am
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Try Freecycle? You'd be amazed what people will take off you...


 
Posted : 07/03/2011 9:57 am
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get a sailboat?

I use strips of cassette tape as wind indicators on mine.


 
Posted : 07/03/2011 10:33 am
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Unravel all the tape and leave it strewn alongside the road, make all of us drivers of a certain age go misty eyed with nostalgia at how driving was in our youth 😉 (especially effective the entire reel is caught in a hedge fluttering in the breeze and reflecting the spring sunshine in a shiny brown way......)


 
Posted : 07/03/2011 10:41 am
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Yes. I used to see dozens of tapes along the roadside whilst cycling.. now it's all CDs.

I expect there'll be iPods soon, or spent iTunes vouchers.


 
Posted : 07/03/2011 11:19 am
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Charidee shop em. Thats what I did. Age Concern in Halifax got all mine... Bond box set and everyting!


 
Posted : 07/03/2011 11:48 am
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Charidee shop em. Thats what I did. Age Concern in Halifax got all mine... Bond box set and everyting!

My wife took her old Friends box sets to a charity shop...they told her they'll just throw them out as no one would buy them.


 
Posted : 07/03/2011 11:55 am
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I'm in the same boat as the OP. Could I just stick them in the plastics recycling, or is this bad?


 
Posted : 07/03/2011 12:03 pm
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I have asked a few charity shops, they wont take them.


 
Posted : 07/03/2011 1:11 pm
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Anyone had luck converting them to a hard drive or dvd?


 
Posted : 07/03/2011 1:16 pm
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Worthless, bin them.

You will waste more energy driving to a charity shop who wont be able to sell them anyway. Just look on ebay and you will see how worthless they are.


 
Posted : 07/03/2011 1:35 pm
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All the charity shops in my village have notices up saying they no longer take VHS tapes.


 
Posted : 07/03/2011 2:20 pm
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It will be CD's next - sell them all now while they are still worth some pennys.


 
Posted : 07/03/2011 2:47 pm
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Remove the spools of tape, then attach to a dowel and cycle off down your road. Video it and post it here for our pleasure.

Or line them up and fire a bullet through the stack, filming it in high speed like they did in Police Squad.


 
Posted : 07/03/2011 2:55 pm

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