What do you do with those styrofoam packing peanuts? - Page 2

Rumika · #11 05-08-2007, 02:26 AM

You can put them in the bottom of your flower pots to help with drainage. Perfect time of year to use up some of those peanuts.

saltaddict · #12 05-08-2007, 02:38 AM

Add them to gasoline. Makes excellent napalm.

...j/k

seriously .........dont try this at home kids.

Delphinus · #13 05-08-2007, 05:19 AM

Yeah .. I actually tried unloading them at work at our shipping department. They pretty much begged me not to, apparently we have several tonnes worth. See, I was thinking that "in that case, they won't notice a couple more pounds worth" but they didn't see it that way.

BMW Rider · #14 05-08-2007, 03:48 PM

Someone in my neighborhood has taken to letting the wind deal with them

I'm picking up a handfull of the freaking things daily from my front yard. I usually just bag em and trash em. I saved them for a while, but got tired of that quickly.

What I really hate about them is the static, they stick to everything and are a pain to handle.

EmilyB · #15 05-08-2007, 08:09 PM

Jeez Ed, I'm sorry, I didn't think they'd get that far........

BMW Rider · #16 05-08-2007, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by EmilyB

Jeez Ed, I'm sorry, I didn't think they'd get that far........

I'll start saving them for you in case you want them back

Ruth · #17 05-09-2007, 01:48 AM

You could always package them up and send them to your "friends" and "family" as gag Christmas and birthday presents. Less expensive than shipping a lump of coal!

BMW Rider · #18 05-09-2007, 02:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Ruth

You could always package them up and send them to your "friends" and "family" as gag Christmas and birthday presents. Less expensive than shipping a lump of coal!

I did that to my brother at christmas. Packed a gift card in a huge box with a ton of peanuts

He said they ended up all over the house once the kids got into them.

Hmmmm, maybe he's been seeding them in my yard.....

fishoholic · #19 05-13-2007, 04:16 AM

I'm still

from reading everything! One thing you could do is donate them to a daycare. I work in one and the kids love making crafts out of them as well as playing in them (Kiddie pool and styrofoam peanuts=FUN!)

Snappy · #20 05-14-2007, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by 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...

Hey Tony,
I'll take a bag off your hands. I need to ship frags quite a bit and ran out of what I had. I don't want all three bags from you yet but I will take one for sure.

Let me know. Thanks,