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[LUG] metal recycling (silver from cd roms)

 

something has occured to me, when looking at posts relating to giving 
away magazines  / cdroms

I think a few recycling companies pay money for people who collect 
aluminium can's (good for charities),  Just wondered if any collect cd's 
to extract the silver metal (more valuable in some cases), from cd's  as 
this could be a good fund raiser,  for either a ) the lug or partner 
organisations,  if there are such companies I am sure as a lug,  we have 
lots of cd's we could donate,  which in turn could raise money for 
related causes,  e.g ukfsn,  which gives grants for project, 


so the lug collect,  cd's,  we get the money from them,  give this to 
the ukfsn (or similar charity),  and we oursleves can apply for grants, 
from that for    specific projects,

not sure if this would work,  not sure how much silver is in recordable 
cd's  but i have lots here,  and most are so out of date, (normal cd's) 
there must be quite a lot of silver.

anyone got any suggestions, or live near a company that does this,  and 
could approach to see if they can help or would be interested,  after 
all both sides benefit, here.

Paul

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