We have a bunch of old videocassettes we want to get rid of. They’re of mixed manufacture and quality; mostly sporting old TV programs. It’s a sizable pile of around 30-40 tapes.
Shouold I just throw them into the landfill? Or is there somewhere they would be useful to someone? Would the library be interested in them? Volunteer organizations? I wouldn’t want to just burden them with trash, but if they would use these old-but-still-recordable cassettes, it beats wasting them.
If you have any ideas or experiences to pass on, please let me know.
Video cassettes are both plentiful and obsolete. They also degrade with time and use, and it sounds like yours have plenty of both. I’d be very surprised if there’s still any real demand for them anymore, even for free. Good on you for trying, though.
Put a free ad in a paper of what you have and whats on them- chances are someone has similar interests and tastes as yours and would love to take them off you hands, if nothing else for the ability to re-record over them. Some of us still haven’t upgraded to DVR’s yet
