Recycle – Floppydisks
The program recycles 3.5" floppy disks and also sells new sealed disks in bulk quantities. Customers must provide photos of new disks and contact a phone number for a quote. Shipping rebates are offered for large orders and a reimbursement form is required.
- ▪The company accepts any quantity of floppy disks for recycling, with a shipping offset for orders over 200 units.
- ▪New disks must be in sealed, undamaged packaging, and a photo and phone call are required for pricing.
- ▪Recycled disks are sent to the Floppydisk Recycle Program address in Laguna Beach, CA.
- ▪A reimbursement form must be included to receive the shipping rebate, and the form’s rules are provided on the form.
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| Original publisher | floppydisks |
| Canonical URL | https://www.floppydisk.com/recycle |
| Publication time | Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:01:01 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-11T04:15:46.264Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-11T04:15:46.264Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Yes, we recycle old disks and buy new ones! We buy new disks in sealed undamaged packs. Quantities of 100 or more. If disks are outside their original packaging, we cannot treat them as new. For new disks, send us a picture of your disks, and call (800) 397-7890 for a quote.RECYCLING 3.5" FLOPPY DISKS: We accept any quantity of diskettes. If you send more than 200 disks, we offer a small shipping offset. Send your discs to: Floppydisk Recycle Program 668 North Coast HWY #1117 Laguna Beach CA 92651 To get a shipping rebate, please include our reimbursement form. Reimbursement rules are on the form. Click here, for a copy of the form.
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at floppydisks.