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  1. 03-08-2023, 02:19 PM #1
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    Basically, they're all made of a very thin sheet of aluminum encased in plastic. Colors are just added dyes: https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare...lors-revealed/ By the way, we used to have a large music cd manufacturing plant a hour away from here. It has closed about 10 years ago after record business went down. I would rather spend more time with hard drives than CD / DVD / CDR... I guess that recovering metals from CD would be as hard as recycling potato chips bags or Tetrapak and recovered quantity of aluminum will all be very small for the efforts put in that project.

    NEW TO SCRAPPING? READ THIS: Build up your horde of magnetic and non-magnetic metals in two piles until you have a better understanding of the business. Magnetic material has low value and is mostly always steel / shred / short iron. Read old threads about non-magnetic metals and ewaste (and how to sort them), but don't forget that they generally have absolutely no tolerance for contamination (screw / iron / foreign material).

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