Larry West:
New Technology Holds Promise of Eco-Friendly Music
Meanwhile, some groundbreaking new CDs, one made from corn and another partly from paper, are on the horizon. Sanyo has teamed up with NatureWorks (formerly Cargill Dow) in the production of “MildDiscs” made from corn (one ear of corn can make 10 CDs). And Sony has developed the “Blue-Ray” disc that is 51 percent paper. It can be cut with scissors and can hold about half the data of a computer hard drive.
But until such innovations become de rigueur, environmentally conscious CD buyers will have to be content passing on their old CDs to friends, selling them to used record stores, or sending them out to recycling centers set up specifically for e-waste, such as the Washington-based GreenDisk.
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