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Styrofoam
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I'd burn it if no neighbors around. Polystyrene is recyclable but a lot of recycling places don't want to deal with it. I throw it in the regular trash. Our recycling trash receptacle will take polyethylene bottles but will not take polyethylene bags. They take tin cans but not pieces of iron - stupid.
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It's not recycled in our area - it goes to the landfill.
John T.
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These are molded to shape pieces used for packing "stuff" - in this case 3 ceiling fans , an instant pot cooker , a stand mixer , and more . Odd shapes and useless for anything . Occasionally I'll get a piece that I can shape and use as a lost-foam mold for an aluminum pour . None of the pile I currently have is usable though . I guess I'll go ahead and just burn it . We do live w-a-a-a-y out in the country , not likely to anger the neighbors .
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4 years ago
What do you do with your household trash and garbage? Throw it on the front lawn to keep people off it? That's where it goes here, into the trash. Town picks it up once a week.
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These days most "recycle" goes to the landfill. Snag's problem is he doesn't have trash pickup. Dig a hole and bury it. You are sequestering carbon and that is supposed to be a good thing. ;-)
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4 years ago
throw it into a pail of gasoline to disolve it then let the gas evaporate and you have a chunk of styrene
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Sounds good so far , what will I do with a chunk of styrene ?
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First, a technicality. Styrofoam in a brand of extruded polystyrene plastic made by Dow Chemical. What you have is expanded polystyrene molded to a shape.
Some places take it for recycling, however, it it bulky and either needs to be compressed/densified or ground for re-use by an EPS molder. Unless nearby it is expensive to ship.
Makes great fuel in a trash to energy plant as it is 18,000 BTU per pound and helps other soggy trash burn. It gives off carbon monoxide and soot when burned so you don't want to breath the smoke from an open fire.
In your case it would be best to toss it into a dumpster next time you go to town. Some places do take it but I have no idea where you are so can't help.
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4 years ago
Frame it, sell it as art.
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I guess that's no weirder than feces art ... I saw one once , it was a pretty shitty looking piece .
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Use it for a block,or a brick, or a stone - it's easy to cut with a saw.
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I'm in Stone County Arkansas , almost a hundred miles from the nearest freeway ... there are a lot of things we don't have here , both good and bad .
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And the attendant air pollution fumes that come from a gallon of evaporating gasoline ;-)
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...or if you live in an area controlled by Democrat politicians, they'll probably register it to vote...
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then put it in your car gas tank.
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I'd be careful tossing it into someone else's dumpster. That's illegal. Unlikely anyone is going to catch you and bust you, but it is what it is. A friend of mine recently was moving and he contracted for a roll off dumpster. He had it sitting in his driveway, still almost empty. One afternoon he went out for a few hours and when he came back it was full. Cops told him it happens frequently. He had no cameras or anything to show who did it. And he was screwed, he had to pay for another dumpster.
He said what went in there looked like household trash and stuff. If it was me, I'd be so pissed I would have gone searching to try to find stuff with names and addresses and try to track down where it came from. I'd bet there is a good chance if you found an address and went there, you'd find they paid someone to do cleanup and take it away and maybe even paid a disposal fee. Then I would go to the cops and press charges. But he didn't investigate.
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Break it up to fit a small bag. I'd stop for a taco. Most every fast food has a trash can outside for your remnants of lunch, toss it in on the way out of the parking lot. Same with the vac at the car wash or the gas station.
Technically it may be illegal but not as blatant as filling a dumpster.
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Great tip from a democrat on how to make someone else pay for trash disposal.
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I didn't see your idea posted. Did I happen to miss it?