What do you do with those styrofoam packing peanuts?

[Delphinus]

Ok, so everytime I MO something, it comes in a box filled with packing peanuts. Which I dutifully don't throw out because that would be "bad." So I put them in a garbage bag full of them "just in case I ever have to ship something somewhere." Now I have .. well .. a few of these bags just chockablock full of packing peanuts and.. it's starting to get kinda annoying.

What can people do to get rid of them in an ecologically sound manner? I was seriously thinking of asking a place like Mailboxes Etc. if they want them, but just haven't done so yet.

I'm thinking that realistically I'm looking at that I have to make a 3-Glad-bag donation of styrofoam packing peanuts to the landfill, but just thought I'd ask what others do...

[Der_Iron_Chef]

They're good to put in the bottom of pots or baskets where you're planting flowers or other plants. It gives the roots somewhere to expand once they reach past the soil, and it helps with drainage

[Delphinus]

Yeah, true, but .. I've been using that as a justification for keeping them the last who-knows-how-many-years. Thing is, even with a lot of plants, I won't use up 3 Glad bags of them. It's a little like draining a lake using an eyedropper ... while it's raining. The stupid things self-replicate, I swear. Well .. it's just that I'll use up maybe 20 peanuts repotting a plant, and then get another 2000 when I mail-order the next thing.

I just hate throwing out styrofoam but what are we supposed to do, ..... it's too much.

[marie]

Put an ad in the classifieds...canada post sells a 12" by 24" bag of them for $7.95

[justinl]

make a bean bag chair with them. theyre pretty comfy and great for sitting in front of the tank

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Prank someone and fill their car with them?

[Delphinus]

I like that one!!!

[andsoitgoes]

i eat them.


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well, okay - maybe not - I'm bad, I used to throw them away.

OR - I torture people I ship stuff to with them.

Why not just do that? I'm sure you've got stuff to sell!!!

[christyf5]

Hehe I used to love shipping stuff to people as I'd fill as much of the box as I could with them, even if it didn't need peanuts

Then I discovered we had a giant box at work where people would recycle them. I just kept on adding to their pile

[Zylumn]

Put them in Grocery bags ( you get too many of those too unless you own dogs) tie the bags up and throw them in your attic. Years from now you keep doing that and they might pay for themselves.
Kevin