Re: ? Where to recycle microfilm (Danny Jones)
Tuttle, Marcia 14 Oct 1996 07:11 UTC
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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:27:05 -0600
From: Danny Jones <jones@UTHSCSA.EDU>
Subject: Re: ? Where to recycle microfilm (Judy Lane)
Hospitals recycle silver halide x-ray film to recover the silver. It might
be useful to contact a local hospital to ask what they do with their film,
as there may be a secondary market for other types of film.
Danny Jones
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>Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:23:47 -0700
>From: Judy Lane <jlan@NETCOM.COM>
>Subject: ? Where to recycle microfilm
>
>Is it possible to recycle unwanted microfilm in some useful way?
>One of the larger public libraries in our cooperative has offered
>their discard list of microfilmed periodicals and given away a
>lot of them, but hopes to find some company or agency that is
>willing to take the rest off their hands. There was some
>discussion on govdoc-l about a company called Harbor which used
>to recycle microforms, but had stopped accepting them. Thanks!
>
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