How to Recycle Old CDs and DVDs

CDs and DVDs are EVERYWHERE. As new technology emerges, CDs and DVDs are becoming unwanted and obsolete daily. But you can put them to good use. Proper collection, sorting, handling and recycling allows your unwanted discs to become new items molded from the recycled plastic. Home goods, automotive parts, building materials and many more everyday items can be made from the #7, high quality plastic that discs are made from. The key is to keep all the discs together, and separate from lower grade plastics that contaminate them. That's what we do here at the CD Recycling Center of America.

Think of this... If every American mailed just one disc to the center, yes - just one disc... there would be enough discs to fill a freight train that is 234 cars long! Look around your home, office and auto. You have discs everywhere. So if any of your discs become damaged, obsolete or simply unwanted, please do not put them in the trash!

Now you know. You're in the loop. Please set aside your unwanted discs, follow the instructions on our recycling website, and mail them into our collection center. Go forth and recycle! If you use, sell, promote, distribute, or manufacture compact discs, please learn and promote how to recycle them. Use of our CD Recycling logo is free, and we encourage you to use it to spread the word.

Compacts Discs, when recycled properly, will stop unnecessary pollution, conserve natural resources, and help slow global warming. Thanks for thinking of the environment and helping us keep unwanted discs out of our landfills and incinerators. Every Disc Counts. Spread the word!

Water Crises Again Ranked a Top Global Risk in World Economic Forum Report

Water Crises Again Ranked a Top Global Risk in World Economic Forum Report - Circle of Blue

For the first time in the history of the Global Risks Report, respondents ranked environmental factors as the top five risks that are most likely to occur. On a second measurement - impact, or the damage that a risk can cause - four of the top five risks are environmental.

Careful Measurement of Environmental Trends and Progress Provides a Foundation for Effective Policymaking

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Careful measurement of environmental trends and progress provides a foundation for effective policymaking. The 2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 180 countries on 24 performance indicators across ten issue categories covering environmental health and ecosystem vitality. These metrics provide a gauge at a national scale of how close countries are to established environmental policy goals.

Video ”Winona LaDuke on Be the Ancestor Your Descendants Would Be Proud Of”

7:30 PM Wednesday January 15, 2020 at the Community Church of Chapel Hill, UU located at 106 Purefoy Road. 

Balance & Accuracy in Journalism presents the video 

”WINONA LaDUKE on Be the AncestorYour Descendants Would Be Proud Of”

Leading indigenous voice Winona LaDuke offers exciting engagement in emerging energy and climate action and reminds us that America was great when people could drink from all its rivers and lakes.

LaDuke spoke a few months ago in Missoula, at the University of Montana.  She is a rural development economist and author working on issues of Indigenous Economics,  Food and Energy Policy. She co-founded Honor the Earth with the Indigo Girls, as a platform to raise awareness of and money for indigenous struggles for environmental justice.

Among the many topics she brings together is the enrichment of food with choices from early agriculture, including corn that can survive drought and wind…and Honor the Earth has pioneered projects making electricity drawn from wind available to native communities. 

The pipeline struggles have become a way to steer investment away from fossil fuels and to affirm truly sustainable and climate friendly-choices. We are invited to ally with indigenous communities in this fight, and some of our members are doing just that!

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DIRECTIONS TO BAJ MEETING SITE

106 Purefoy Road, Chapel Hill Community Church, Unitarian Universalist. FROM EITHER DIRECTION ON THE CHAPEL HILL BYPASS: take 15-501 [or NC 54] to the 15-501 Pittsboro exit. As you exit, TURN at the traffic light toward Chapel Hill. Almost immediately TURN RIGHT just short of the convenience store. That's PUREFOY ROAD, and you take it almost half a mile, passing two stop signs as it curves left  up the hill until you can - just - see the third stop sign ahead of you. At that point, there is a driveway on the left with a subtle, tan sign for the church. That driveway takes you to the parking lot and the Community Church.

NASA Satellite Tracking Polluted Carolina Water Flowing Into Rivers and Spilling into The Atlantic Ocean

NASA can see dark, polluted Carolina rivers spilling into the ocean from space

A NASA satellite is tracking flooding in the Carolinas following Hurricane Florence, and its images show dark, polluted water flowing from rivers into the Atlantic Ocean. Nearly 8 trillion gallons of rain fell across North Carolina during the storm, according to the National Weather Service in Raleigh's estimate.

Company Is Using Plastic Bottles To Make Roads That Last 10x Longer Than Asphalt

Company Is Using Plastic Bottles To Make Roads That Last 10x Longer Than Asphalt

The dangers of plastic use to the environment is now a worldwide problem. Plastic was invented way back in 1907. Since then, it became one of the modern marvels that transformed everything in our lives. Plastic is used for many things - from storing food, car parts, appliances, and even for our bottled waters.

Scientists Created New Sponge That Could Clean Up Oil Spills

Unsustainable Use of Groundwater is Going to Emerge as a Major Global Crisis This Decade

Groundwater Crisis Puts Farmers at a Bad Crossroad

Water Crisis Puts Oregon Community At A Crossroads

In a desert far from any city, farmers use groundwater to grow lush green hay. The hay fattens livestock all over the world. But there's a big problem: The water is drying up. Now scientists warn it will take thousands of years for an aquifer in southeastern Oregon to recover, while residents there are already hurting.