From the Orange Coconut blog: Why videotape should be evaluated before reuse
Videotape recycling
The Orange Coconut low carbon videotape recycling service offers a high quality facility to the UK television broadcast industry.
We currently recycle videotapes for a number of BBC departments, including BBC Drama, BBC News and BBC Sport.
We support the following videotape formats:
Recycling videotapes involves magnetically erasing recordings, followed by evaluating tapes using RTI TapeCheck Pro Line 4100 and 5100 machines.
These machines clean and polish the tape surface to remove loose oxide and dirt and use a laser to inspect the tape for physical defects and damage.
The machines provide a print out detailing the condition of the tape, which is returned to customers along with recyled videotapes.
All fully evaluated videotapes are guaranteed to perform without failure on their first pass through video recording equipment.
Any videotape failing to meet this performance standard will be replaced like-for-like free of any charge, subject only to the customer’s commitment to return the defective tape for technical assessment.
Contact us to to discuss your videotape recycling requirements, along with prices and dispatch procedures.
Orange Coconut is striving to be a carbon neutral and environmentally friendly enterprise.
An environmental audit is due to be completed and the company intends to achieve ISO 14001 and 14004 compliance.
Until that point all services, supplies including energy, and consumables used in the company’s processes are, in all practicable cases, sourced from sustainable, and/or carbon neutral, and/or recycled sources.
All waste generated by the company’s processes will be recycled in all practicable cases.
