Accepted items  Not accepted items
  • 8-track tapes
  • Cassette tapes, VHS tapes
  • CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray discs
  • Floppy disks
  • CD and DVD cases (use the All Plastic Packaging Zero Waste Bag instead)
  • Memory sticks and hard drives
  • 8-track players, cassette players, TVs, VCR players, CD players, DVD players or computers
  • Hazardous waste (sharp, flammable, reactive, corrosive, ignitable, toxic, infectious or pathogenic) which presents a danger to the environment, or to people
  • Batteries, pressurised canisters, broken glass and medical waste

   

 

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Collect with large Zero Waste Bags

Recycle all storage media by using our large Zero Waste Bag. Make sure to check off the “storage media” checkbox on the front of the Zero Waste Bag. When the Zero Waste Bag is full, seal it, request a QR code and drop it at your nearest available Inpost locker.

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How we recycle

Learn more about how we recycle media storage ⬇

Each Zero Waste Bag is opened upon receipt and visually inspected for any non-compliant materials, then consolidated for processing in bulk.

The consolidated materials are then manually sorted into categories based on predominant material makeup and secondary stage mechanical processing requirements. Items containing electrical components are manually disassembled to separate materials by predominant composition. 

All materials are size-reduced through shredding. Metals are then removed through magnetized and electrostatic sortation. Sorted metals are smelted and formed for use in secondary metals manufacturing. Rigid plastics are then sorted by density profile and composition through multi-stage air, optical, and water-based mechanical sortation systems. Clean, sorted plastics are mixed with other plastics to make recycled plastic blends that are then used by various manufacturers to make new products.

Click here to find out more about our recycling process.