VHS disposal in Canberra?

p1 said :

If you have old recorded TV shows from the 80s, I recommend digitising the advertisements and putting them on youtube. The station promos are always good for a laugh.

Or send them to me!!

You could pull the tape out of the VHS cartridges and sell the empty VHS cartridges on ebay. Frequently they arrive broken when they are sent through the mail.

mutley said :

Pommy bastard said :

mutley said :

Hope you’ve double checked them all for your special “home movies”

I sold them on at Adam and Eve…

Now retitled “Cornish Pasties”

Interestingly enough, the plural of “Pasty” is “Pastys”, down in the county of Cornwallshire. I believe we have a resident Cornish person (Thumper?) who will confirm.

If you have old recorded TV shows from the 80s, I recommend digitising the advertisements and putting them on youtube. The station promos are always good for a laugh.

How and where can we dispose of these in a morally sound, environmental aware and socially conscious way?

That’s a big ask…

You can just chuck them into your wheely bin and have it taken away to a landfill.

Or, you can go to one of those disposal depots and pay $$$, and be socially conscious that they get thrown into landfill anyway. (plastic isn’t really recyclable with the current technology available, so landfill is the only option). This way your moral is protected, ’cause you did the right thing, right?

Either way, you are now environmentally aware.

troll-sniffer said :

there is a trick I did once on a quiet country road… got the full spool out of an E240…

You own a Mercedes? Awesome…

It depends what’s on the tapes, I guess. Maybe (a big maybe) the National Film and Sound Archives, or even the National Archives may have a use for them. If not, given that maybe they both had the same problem on a large scale in the past, they may know where or how to dispose of them responsibly…

georgesgenitals said :

Pull them apart – the black tape makes great Halloween party streamers.

there is a trick I did once on a quiet country road… got the full spool out of an E240, drilled a hole in the centre for a piece of dowel, drilled in a couple of screws to hold the spool in one spot on the dowel, and at about 20km/hr started feeding the tape out of the spool out of the window. Eventually the wind and the friction grabbed the trailing end and the spool started to spin roilly roilly fast. Increased speed to something more meaningful, getting on for 100km/hr if I remember correctly, and watched in awe at the speed that the spool turned as the tape unwound. Several thousand rpm with the centre of the spool just starting to melt from the heat on the dowel.

Took a bit longer to do the right thing and collect the several hundred metres of tape though.

Anyway maybe we could organise a spool off down at Lake George with your tapes?

Pommy bastard said :

mutley said :

Hope you’ve double checked them all for your special “home movies”

I sold them on at Adam and Eve…

Now retitled “Cornish Pasties”

Pull them apart – the black tape makes great Halloween party streamers.