So, in my home the VCR is all but dead. Not that I watch a ton of movies on the DVD player, but at least that one still seems to get used periodically.
As we were looking through the house for Christmas decorations I came upon several shopping bags full of VHS tapes that are not being used. A wide assortment, really. There are many tapes containing the old "Must See TV" Thursday nights from when I traveled all week and wanted to catch "my shows" when I got home on the weekend. There are a few others with random movies recorded from HBO or free TV and then many purchased movies.
I got to thinking that just taking these bags of movies to the trash was probably not the most environmentally friendly answer. I went online and found that there really isn't a good answer out there. The answers ranged from donating to hospitals and senior centers to selling on ebay. No good answer for those once-blank tapes that are now no good.
Does anyone have any ideas on how/where to recycle the blank tapes? Would a group of you be willing to join me in combining our pre-recorded collections and donating to the local hospitals and senior centers? I doubt that I am the only one out here with these piles of useless VHS tapes. I would even be willing to donate my perfectly functioning VCR along with some of the tapes.
Let me know if you are interested in joining in this collection and if you have any ideas on how to dispose of the self-recorded tapes.
Serge
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