Recycling (Going Green)

[rentor]

Hi,

Does bestbuy recycle floppy disks?

If so, where do you drop them off?

-Thank

Jim

[Allan-BBY Community Connector]

Hi Jim,

Unfortunately we do not recycle Floppy Discs. To be honest I'm not sure if Floppy Discs can be recycled. I would suggest making sure any of your personal information is not on any of the discs before you dispose of them.

Thanks for posting,

[RedWyv3 Best Buy Employee]

... I knew those pesky AOL diskettes were still out there. I could *sense* them.

[rentor]

Found a site that actually pays for floppies.

Unfortunately one has to break the 500 disc barrior to get paid.

the site is     http://floppydisk.com/recycle.htm

[rentor]

One of the diskettes that I have does have an AOL version 3 sticker on it.

Though it doesn't have a return address; it does say "Property of RedWyv3" ...

[RedWyv3 Best Buy Employee]

AGGGGGHHHH!

They FOUND ME!

In all seriousness, back in those days I loved those diskettes. You could put a piece a tape over the read/write and blank the disc out, using it for whatever you wanted. Then they started to make 'half sized' diskettes (not 1.44mb but half that, whatever that is), which ruined it - but still, you could stick a word doc or something on them.

[Azimor]

I need to knew what kind of floppy disks I need to use to put some pictures on? Can I buy them at Best Buy? Thanks.

[RealGeorgeW Valued Expert]

In a nutshell, none of them. In today's world one decent quality image would fill a single floppy.

[RealGeorgeW Valued Expert]

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rentor wrote:

Found a site that actually pays for floppies.

Unfortunately one has to break the 500 disc barrior to get paid.

the site is     http://floppydisk.com/recycle.htm

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$1 per 500. Eek. I know it's a 'recylying' thing, but DANG that's cheap.

[Azimor]

That is cheap but if it's a recycling thing maybe we should all consider going green.