As councils are reducing refuse collections to 2 weekly is there any way of safely reducing the bulk of polystyrene? These days if you buy an electronic/electrical device the waste almost fills a wheely bin.
put their address on the back of the parcel as sender, a random address on the front and leave it at the sorting office collections counter. it will be considered an orphan and some dim postie will pop it into the system.
With a large enough amount of chickens, eventually they will eat it all.
I had about 20 or so near my house and they "cleaned" the back of some waste EPS insulated wall board which was in my front garden for a few months. I mentioned this to the owner, when they started at it. He was quite unperturbed and just said "oh they eat anything".
They did not seem to suffer any adverse effects BTW and were eventually seen off by foxes about a year later.
They won't eat anything - but they WILL eat expanded polystyrene. It doesn't seem to affect them at all, I reckon there must be something in it which is attractive to them. I once saw one of ours with an enormous piece in her beak, being chased by another and not being able to get through the gap she wanted!
Thank you for all your answers, they were well worth reading for the entertainment value. As there was no practical answer I assume there is no practical solution.
I think there was one sensible suggestion - to ask the council about recycling it or any other approved methods of disposal.
Only ways I can think are noxious - burning or dissolving. Neither are likely to be legal.
I can see this becoming a major ball-ache for a number of us, we've just moved to 2-weekly pickups and the bins are overflowing at the end of the 2 weeks without large-volume items like polystyrene.
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