Not a Ubuntu question

[Justin Gruenberg]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Rajiv Vyas <rajiv1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> A friend of mine just replaced his cd r/w drive as one of his kids broke the
> tray. It no longer goes in and out. He hates to just throw it out and was
> wondering what he can do with it. Can it be recycled?
>
> Thanks for the help.

As for recycling, contact your local municipality.  In some places, it
is illegal to throw away computer parts.

You can have some fun with the parts:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/11/how_to_make_a_d_3.html