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Message: [QUOTE="Goatman, post: 9233810, member: 3814"] Well rather than start a new thread, I was a good little egg and used the search function. And you know what? Fúckkit - this'll do..... [B][U]RECYCLING VHS TAPE ???[/U][/B] 2 years ago I threw about 20 VHS tapes in a skip at my local Household Waste place ( 'the Tip' ) I hawked them around about 5 seperate charidee shops first, nobody wanted them. [I]( HATE [/I]chucking perfectly working things away - but hey, has to be done sometimes. ) Question: does any Arsser know of a UK facility in the UK which takes these marvellously intricate staples of 80's /90's popular culture? Most big recycling firms ( hang your heads Veolia ) won't take them as they stand. I suspect this is because they take too much mandraulic processing to be usable. Which is not profitable. Which is why they are in business . This video shows how to break one down into good and bad components: [MEDIA=youtube]0dIfEzbO9WQ[/MEDIA] ( He takes 8 minutes to break [B]one [/B]down. It's pretty laborious, mute it if you have issues with US speech patterns.) KEY: the [B]several hundred feet of Mylar tape[/B] is binned. Apparently(?) the tape is toxic in large quantities. When it goes to landfill various naughty metallic elements such as Chromium leach out , go into the water table and eventually turn up in Stella Artois. QUESTION 2 Please let me know if you know of any UK facility which has looked into re-using mylar tape ? Great project for a Uni Engineering Dept ! Thanks [/QUOTE]

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