Why is this Green?
By selling your unwanted CDs to resellers, you decrease demand for the CDs. Therefore, new copies of the CDs won't have to be produced as often and materials will be saved.

1. Sell them Online
   Like DVDs, you can sell CDs online. SecondSpin.com and CashForCDs are just two of the many online buyers available.

2. Trade/Sell Them at Your Local Record Store
   Make sure to call ahead before you traipse on down to the record store. If you have a bag full of Vanilla Ice, Insane Clown Posse, Ninety Eight Degrees, Kings X and Ratt, there is a good chance that they will not buy or trade these from you. Don't waste gas. Call ahead.

3. Donate them to Charity
   You can donate CDs to the troops. You can donate CDs to public libraries. You can donate CDs to children's hospitals. You can also donate to the Goodwill or Salvation Army. Each of these places will provide you with a tax receipt.

4. Organize a CD Swap Party
   Invite your friends over to trade albums that they don't want any more.

5. Record Over Them
   If your disc is a CD-RW, you can record over the music that's on the disc as many times as you like. If your disc is a CD-R, you are kind of stuck with whatever is on the disc.

Part II: Dealing With Bad Recordings, Broken Discs, Un-tradable Discs and CD-Rs Containing Yanni

6. Recycle CDs
   The CD Recycling Center of America will take those CDs off of your hands and make sure that the materials get used again.

7. Use a Pear to Erase a CD-R?
   One guy thinks that he can make a CD-R rewritable by soaking it in pear juice. He made a video. It seems like a long shot, but I don't have the time or materials (a pear) to try this right now, so I'll add it to this list in the hope that maybe there is some truth to this or that science can be advanced in some way by the video.

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