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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That would be destruction of antiques.

[–] Blue_Morpho 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There will be hundreds of millions of aol CDs in landfills for thousands of years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Well, that one would be upcycling of trash.
But from my experience of the rate of degradation of DVDs, the ones in the landfills would mostly be reduced to plastic discs, with the data-retaining material eroded away and mixed with other particulate matter