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05-07-2007, 06:37 PM
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What do you do with those styrofoam packing peanuts?
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...
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#2
05-07-2007, 06:40 PM
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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
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05-07-2007, 06:51 PM
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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.
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-- Tony My next hobby will be flooding my basement while repeatedly banging my head against a brick wall and tearing up $100 bills. Whee!
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#4
05-07-2007, 06:55 PM
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Put an ad in the classifieds...canada post sells a 12" by 24" bag of them for $7.95
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05-07-2007, 07:24 PM
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Prank someone and fill their car with them?
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~Drew 10G Nano * 10G Sump * Deltec MCE 600 Skimmer * JBL Viper 150w MH * Zeovit * Vortech MP40W Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ~S. Ertz
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05-07-2007, 07:52 PM
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i eat them.
............ 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!!!
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05-14-2007, 02:41 AM
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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,
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05-14-2007, 03:03 AM
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