Thank you for supporting the Charlotte Apple Computer Club! As a member in good standing, you are eligible for several club benefits.
Members’ Only Discounts
It is great to save money: the more you save, the more Mac stuff you can buy! Knowing that, we search MUG resources to bring great discounts to you.Disc and Hard Drive Recycling
Committed to improving your environmental footprint and looking for a responsible way to dispose of your old CDs, DVDs, and hard drives? CACC provides members a complimentary disc and disk recycling service. Simply bring your old CDs, DVDs, and hard drives to any CACC event and give them to us. We’ll take care of recycling them for you.Please note that if you’re bringing a hard disk containing sensitive information, you should format the drive or otherwise destroy the data. If you’re bringing a CD or DVD that contains sensitive information, consider scratching the disc surface.
Why not just throw discs and disks in the trash? Consider these facts:
CD/DVD Recycling Facts
- A cd/dvd is considered a class 7 recyclable plastic
- To manufacture a pound of plastic (30 CDs per pound), it requires 300 cubic feet of natural gas, 2 cups of crude oil and 24 gallons of water
- It is estimated that AOL alone has distributed more than 2 billion CDs. That is the natural gas equivalent of heating 200,000 homes for 1 year
- It is estimated that it will take over 1 million years for a CD to completely decompose in a landfill
Hard Drive Recycling Facts
- Each hard drive contains over one pound of recyclable aluminum
- Recycling one hard drive saves enough energy to:
- light a 100 watt bulb for 134 hours, or
- run your television for 102 hours or
- the energy equivalent of 1.5 gallons of gasoline
- Recycling aluminum is 95% more energy efficient than producing aluminum from ore
- Recycling aluminum results in 95% less air pollution and 97% less water pollution than producing aluminum from ore